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Meden School are working with BSF - Building Schools for the Future - to build and develop their school.

Miss Musson, Head of Performance, asked us to work with a team of BSF Arts pupils for 3 days, to bring together their ideas for a new school using film and animation; students considered how to develop skills and learning in creative arts, and ways of integrating this into the rest of school.

The resulting film was meant to be 2 minutes, but with so many great ideas and brilliant bits of footage, it turned out to be six! Please take a look…

If you’ve been involved in this project - students, school staff, BSF team, anyone - please add your comments below!

The challenge was set by The Mighty Creatives - to make six short films, in six days, with with six (or seven!) pupils in each of the six schools…

Off we went - filming, animating, acting, drawing, photography, interviews, sound recording - we used a huge range of techniques to capture pupils thoughts about their work with Creative Partnerships.

The six schools were all involved in the first year of CP work in Lincolnshire - each school worked with different practitioners, and ran different projects. The films visually reflect the nature of the projects, whilst taking a focus on pupil involvement and their points of view.

Throughout our adventures we kept a blog, click below to see what happened and watch the films..

Pupils at All Saints planned designs, themes, colours, murals, mosaics and more, to transform three of their history classrooms into more inspiring, fun, and colourful places!…

During a very busy and exciting week, the team of 40 students worked together to sand, clean, paint, mosaic and mural the rooms.

Each day brought with it new challenges and changes… By Friday the rooms were finished, friendships had grown, and the team had really pulled together, got to know one another, and seemed to feel a real sense of ownership and pride in their newly aquired skills and achievements.

The themes reflected GCSE subjects taught within the rooms - medieval history; the two world wars; and the History of Medicine.

The finishing touches to each room were framed mono-prints that pupils drew, selected and framed themselves.

We worked with Anna Ogden at All Saints RC School, Mansfield on this Creative Partnerships BAM project

Here’s a really gentle animation made by pupils at Rosehill School in St Anns, Nottingham: It’s an amazing place for children on the autistic spectrum, really imaginative, playful, nurturing.

It was made for Children’s Art Day (in one day) and inspired by the exhibition ‘Into the Light’ at the Angel Row Gallery. Everyone had a great time in the darkened room using the computers, projectors, leaves and twigs, light, and cameras. It was so much fun for us.

And we just heard that it’s going to be playing in the cafe/bar at Broadway cinema as part of the Bang! festival at the end of this month. We need to tell the school.