Digital Video Evening – Grimsby Central Hall December 5th 2007
North East Lincolnshire’s third Digital Video Evening was held on Wednesday 5th December at Grimsby’s Central Hall.
The evening was a huge success, attended by the Mayor and Mayoress, school children, parents, teachers and LEA representatives.
The evening was opened by Peter Kipling, Head of Standards and Effectiveness - Primary. The compere for the evening was Caroline Davis, a BBC Look North presenter. The audience settled down to watch the videos and still images that had been produced by the schools. The films were received with much laughter and applause. During the interval, the audience were treated to biscuits and mince pies. It was then time to present each school with a statue and certificate for all their hard work(see the photographs of our budding stars below)
The following schools were involved in the NELMA night:
- Scartho Junior School
- The Leas Junior School
- Humberston Church of England Primary School
- New Waltham Primary School
- Laceby Acres Primary School
- Springfield Primary School
- Coomb Briggs Primary School
- St. Josephs Primary School
- St. Marys Primary School
Which means about 200 pupils in all.
The schools that have been involved in this year’s project have demonstrated their creativity in the areas of digital video, digital animation, music and still images. The pupils have shown the following skills:
- resilience
- ability to learn new skills
- to be able to think for themselves
- to tackle complex problems
- to collaborate in their groups to produce a piece of work
………….and last, but not least, to enjoy themselves!
None of this would have been possible without the hard work of the teachers, many of whom had never used digital media to enhance teaching and learning before. So in some respects, this has been a learning curve for everyone!
The Oscar Night is a celebration of this work by our primary schools. It is an opportunity to showcase the impact that this technology can have on teaching and learning. Schools are becoming aware that the use of digital video can provide opportunities to enable pupils to become independent and self-critical learners who are able to communicate and collaborate effectively. This is demonstrated the fact that more schools have been involved in the project this year and hopefully even more next year!
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