Sharing Our Stories: Our Traditional Table Recipes and Food Memories
Intergenerational literacy activities focusing on history and traditional recipes.
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“I really enjoyed this course each week and would love for it to continue.”- 93-year-old learner
This project promoted intergenerational literacy between secondary school children and senior citizens. Both cohorts wrote about history and traditional recipes, leading to the publication of two booklets: Sharing our Stories and Our Traditional Table.
The project took place in Ennis, Killaloe and various further education and training centres in County Clare.
Over 200 school children and grandparents took part in the Sharing our Stories project. All children attending Boys and Girls National Schools were involved. Students visited grandparents in 20-minute slots to learn about old artifacts, ask questions, share artwork, and engage in writing activities.
62 students, grandparents, and facilitators worked together to compile traditional recipes.
Various generations used their lived experience as material to improve their listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills.
This project valued the life stories of a wide range of people. Participants produce books that not only improved literacy skills, but paid homage to the history and achievements of local communities.
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Learners of all ages working together to prepare traditional dishes.
This project was a collaboration between Killaloe Boys National School, Clare Museum, and Limerick and Clare Education and Training Board.
For more information about the project, please contact Tom Kent, Regional Literacy Coordinator in Limerick and Clare ETB, at tom.kent@lcetb.ie
The Adult Literacy for Life Collaboration and Innovation Fund
The Collaboration and Innovation Fund supports projects for adults with unmet literacy, numeracy and digital literacy needs and projects that support organisations to be literacy friendly. The closing date for 2024 applications has now passed but keep an eye out for information on our 2025 fund which will be launched in December.
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