We invite XP Gateshead students and families to participate in this exciting Gateshead heritage project in conjunction with Refugee Week.
United Voices of Gateshead
Children and staff from Gateshead schools have worked together to create a collection of voice recordings that celebrate the wide range of dialects and languages spoken across the borough. These recordings help preserve the oral histories of Gateshead’s schools in 2025.
You are invited to take part by recording your own voice, helping to expand this project into a
community-wide celebration of Gateshead’s rich linguistic heritage. The recording will be anonymous (no names) and played during exhibitions at Gateshead Library and The Glasshouse.
Students will be contributing to this project during crew next week (if you would rather they did not, please speak to your child’s crew leader).
We would love this to open a dialogue within families about where different branches of your family tree may have come from. This is particularly relevant for G30 as they continue to consider the GQ ‘Is migration worth the risk?’
We would also love for the wider XPG community of parents and family members to be involved. All you need to do to be a part of this exciting local history project is to record yourself saying:
I live in Gateshead and my family are from _____________ .
We speak ____________ and English.
Example:
I live in Gateshead and my family are from Gateshead and Manchester.
We speak Geordie and English.
As you can see, you do not share your name or any other identifying characteristics in the audio. Just have your child audio record on their iPad and we can get this shared with the project organisers.
Please get in touch with Miss Tatters if you have any other questions.