Our Story Begins ....

In 2011, Class RB - that's a fab bunch of 9 and 10 year olds at Springfield Primary School - began a journey to discover happenings, places and people in their home town of Chelmsford, and this is their story........

Our story starts in a place inbetween two rivers right in the town, at the bottom of Springfield Road actually so its the place we arrive at in town directly if we travel from Springfield.
The space is a bit of a car park now but once upon a time it was known as Mesopotamia Island. So like its namesake the original Mesopotamia where began the 'cradle of civilisation', our story begins. (By the way the Mesopotamian's invented writing so you wouldn't be reading this if it wasn't for them....!)

We thought we'd start by designing our own nifty little maps of Chelmsford, so with enlarged sections of Google Earth we looked at the shapes and patterns the roads, rivers, houses and shops made and using colourful vinyl we created a new landscape - a sort of future mapping adventure.....