FILM WEEK

Just before the Christmas break, we ran a first ever ‘Film Week’ at the hospital school. Pupils developed their active viewing skills by watching a series of five short films, practised reviewing films in a variety of ways and then experimented with making their own short films using iMovie and Stop Motion Studio software.

The short films pupils watched were available through film charity Into Film, whose work promotes the use of film in schools to improve engagement and achievement across the curriculum. The selected films dealt with the topics of climate change, friendship, family, illness and disability.

Pupils focused their own film-making on the themes of ‘friendship and determination’ (our school values) and also ‘heroes’. They created their own sets, wrote dialogue, made props, learnt how to record and edit film, with a focus on the process of stop-frame animation. Some even made and recorded their own sound efects and musical scores.