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Name Age Wish You Were Here? ACTIVITY RESOURCE Welcome! We hope you enjoy reading this booklet and completing the activities. After you have finished the tasks, you will get to design a postcard about . This is your chance to think creatively and critically about your city, what you like, what you don’t like, and how you can take care of it. Most importantly, have fun!

A note for teachers and parents/carers The activities in this booklet are part of the Heritage in the Atlantic Area: Sustainability of Urban World Heritage Sites (AtlaS.WH) project’s educational activities. Edinburgh World Heritage is taking part in this project to investigate sustainability best practice in the way we manage and care for urban World Heritage Sites. The project is part-funded by the European Regional Development Fund through Interreg Atlantic Area. We are thrilled that your class/child is taking part in this Holiday Challenge. The learning outcomes are:

a greater understanding of what heritage means a critical look at how we can care for our heritage a creative response to Edinburgh’s historic setting.

www.atlaswh.eu www.ewh.org.uk/project/atlas-world-heritage/ Permission and consent forms must be returned for your class/child’s work to be included in Edinburgh World Heritage and AtlaS.WH project publicity material. Please ensure only your child’s FIRST NAME appears on the postcard, and their age. For more information, please email Gabriella Laing, International Training Officer at Edinburgh World Heritage [email protected]

2 Wish You Were Here? ACTIVITY RESOURCE High five! There arefive partner cities taking part in this project. Each city is home to an urban World Heritage Site. This is a place that has been chosen for being very special or important, which people want to protect for everyone to enjoy. Together, they make up the AtlaS.WH partnership which is working together to improve sustainability in the way the World Heritage Sites are looked after. This means doing things in the best way to protect the environment now and in the future. Unscramble the cities and fill in the labels on the map. Use an atlas to help you.

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TADPOLES COME AS I TANGO BORDEAUX TROOP SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA A RUDE BOX EDINBURGH CRONE ELF P O RTO BEHIND RUG FLORENCE

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The way I see it…

This map shows the World Heritage Site in Edinburgh. New Town

Old Town

Have a look at these images and paintings of the World Heritage Site on The World Heritage Site was chosen for many the next few pages. As you go through reasons, one of them being the contrast between the Old Town and the New Town. To contrast them, think about the questions something means to look at the differences underneath each image, and play between them. the bingo game on the next page.

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The way I see it… Each time you see something in the images on this bingo card, cross it off. If you see anything more than once, keep a tally. bingo!

Edinburgh Castle Scottish Parliament National Museum of Scotland Grassmarket

Princes Street Gardens Kings Stables Road St Giles’ Cathedral Stockbridge

Princes Street National Gallery of Scotland Crescent

New Town Picardy Place Salisbury Crags Dumbiedykes

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Plan of the City of Edinburgh and the New Town. New Town How are the streets Old Town different in the Old and New Towns? Where would you prefer to live?

Philippe Mercier, North view of the New and Old Town of Edinburgh, from . 1782.

What does this view suggest about life in Edinburgh? How do you think this view might have changed since it was painted?

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David Allan, Mary (Queen of Scots) Led through the Streets of Edinburgh after the Battle of Carberry Hill. From around 1790.

Can you find Mary? Do you think she won or lost the battle? Why?

Joseph Mallord William Turner, High Street, Edinburgh. 1818.

Do you recognise any of the buildings? What do you think is happening here?

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Alexander Nasmyth, Edinburgh Castle and the Nor’ Loch. 1824.

Thomas Hosmer Shepherd, The New Town of Edinburgh from Calton Hill. 1828.

Compare these two images. What is the main feature of each image? What are the main differences?

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Kenneth Macleay, A Maid on the Steps of a New Town Basement.

These two images show different types of people living in the New Town: a servant and wealthy lords. What can you tell about their lives by the way they are painted? Is it more important to show one person’s story over another?

Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell, Their Lordships. 1915.

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Alfred Buckham, Aerial View of Edinburgh. About 1920. Although this may look like a photograph, it is in fact a combination of different photographs, and a hand-drawn plane, to make this almost Hollywood-style image. Why do you think Alfred Buckham made the picture look like this? How does it make you feel?

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William Crozier, Edinburgh (from Salisbury Crags). 1927.

Have you ever climbed up Salisbury Crags or Arthur’s Seat? Do you think the view has changed since this was painted?

Michael Andrews, Edinburgh (Old Town). 1990-1993.

What do you think the weather was like the day this was painted?

11 Wish You Were Here? ACTIVITY RESOURCE Greetings from Edinburgh Have a look back at your bingo card. Did you get a full house? Which sites kept showing up again and again? Many of the views shown in the images and paintings are the same that are found on postcards of Edinburgh. Take a look at these postcards.

These postcards all come from different times, but the pictures don’t really change. The sites in these pictures are almost all of the Castle, or the Royal Mile.

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Look back at the painting on the left, and compare it with the photo on the right. These two views are almost exactly the same. The photo on the right shows Dumbiedykes, an area at the foot of the Salisbury Crags. Both tell a different story about Edinburgh. Both stories are important to tell.

We think that there are many places in our everyday lives that are special enough to be put on a postcard. Is there a special place in Edinburgh that you would like to see on a postcard? Perhaps it’s the park where you play with your friends or the street where you live. Think about which places are important to you and jot them down here:

13 Wish You Were Here? ACTIVITY RESOURCE Frame, set, match! When we like a picture, we put it in a frame and hang it on a wall. Ask an adult to help you. As soon as you put a view inside a frame, it becomes a work of art. Use the template Make a simple frame. You will need: below. Cut along the dotted piece of card (e.g. an old cereal box) line. pair of scissors

Alternatively, you can hold your hands up like this and use your fingers as a frame! Take your frame outside and hold it up to any view you like. Think about what shapes, colours and sites you can see in your frame.

14 Wish You Were Here? ACTIVITY RESOURCE Wish You Were Here! When you’ve found your perfect view, take a photo or make a quick sketch. You will use this to design your very own postcard. Next, plan your design below. You can write a message on the back about what you have chosen to show.

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On this page, make your final design for your postcard. Cut out this page and keep it safe. Hand it to your teacher when you are back at school or ask an adult to email it to Edinburgh World Heritage.

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Experiment with different colours and materials, and maybe even Colouring in! draw in some new Re-create some of the paintings you’ve looked at today with this colouring in sheet. characters!

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Permission and consent form

Please complete one form per child.

I hereby give permission for my child’s creative response postcard to be included in (tick as appropriate):

Social media posts and press/PR for the AtlaS.WH project

Social media posts and press/PR for Edinburgh World Heritage

My child’s FIRST NAME and AGE may be provided alongside their creative response postcard. (delete as appropriate)

Child’s first name:

Child’s age:

Parent/carer’s name:

Parent/carer’s signature:

Date:

Please hand completed form to a member of the team, or scan and email to [email protected]

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Can you find all the words in the Word search grid below? B Y D O I F C A L T O N H I L L S H P U D W X D M W S W H P P G Q O O X N E W T O W N E E V P D M P S N M S M O P U O D R A S Z A R T H U R S S E A T I I S I P F I C U R D U U Y H R N T A W C L N A F C B S M O K O B A N F Y O C R S O C T V R G Y U G T Q C R E D T N A A B I V A R E I Z F E S O A T S I O I D L G L A R E N S P M R T N R P E M H T G P S C T F P A L A D P Z I Y Y O A E E R C X S E B E O H L P R L I D Q E R B T G L A R N E U T Z H C H E B I G Z E U T I E A M W F Q R T C N F I Y X O O L D T O W N

Can you find all the words in the SUSTAINABLE ATLAS HERITAGE grid above? ARTHUR’S SEAT SANTIAGO CONTRAST Cross off each NEW TOWN P O RTO OLD TOWN word as you find them. CALTON HILL EDINBURGH STAMP POSTCARD FLORENCE EUROPE ROYAL MILE BORDEAUX CASTLE PRINCES STREET

19 We are an independent charity with the aim of ensuring the city’s World Heritage status is a dynamic force that benefits everyone.

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