Pupils are set the task of creating a piece of music to accompany a short (1 minute) cartoon. Pupils are expected to explain their choice of instruments, tempo and mood as appropriate to the film's timeline.

The short cartoon is broken into six 10 second sections, each different in tone and pace and pupils are expected to create a piece of music that reflects the changes. 

In this short session (up to 2 hours) pupils are introduced to the software Audacity and are tasked with creating a short radio programme. Pupils record a script, add jingles and sound effects and background music.

Beyond the school gates, writing is essentially a purposeful activity, undertaken to get things done. Within them, the purpose of writing is essentially circular: we ask pupils to write in order to develop their writing, or to test or consolidate their understanding. This does not convince all pupils of the relevance or interest of written work.

This session allows students to develop and create an online writing project using a Wikispace.
This wiki has the aim of promoting collaborative writing and providing a test area where students can do that.

Adventure Island  is an online writing project that can be done with the entire class.

It has been designed so that you can create an island that other people are able to visit and explore.

You can create descriptions for each area of your island, and these can be written in either the style of a story, diary or guide.

Award-winning, cross-curricular, creative software. Create storyboards, 3D role-plays, movies, publications, animations and more...

Kar2ouche is an easy and powerful tool to create stunning pieces of work. Pupils find the interface to be instinctive and creative. 

Children will have their own preconceived ideas about what animation is from what they have seen at the cinema and watched on television. Animation is not just Simpsons and Disney cartoons.Animation is image manipulation and it can be used on any object - from pins to people.
The key is to let the imagination run wild! Animated films and the skills needed to produce them can provide a stimulus to learning across the curriculum - especially in Art and Design, History, ICT, Science and Literacy.  

LEGO MINDSTORMS Education NXT is the next generation in educational robotics, enabling students to discover Science, Technology, Engineering and Math in a fun, engaging, and hands-on way.

Pupils will:

- Program robots to move, play sounds, display images.
- Use sensors to demonstrate knowledge of input and output
- Complete a given scenario

Would you know how to be “hip” in the sixties if you were transported back there?
Would you know your “hippy” from your “mini”?
In this session pupils will create a short film as a guide for time travellers back to the 1960s.

Pupils will:

- Create a short film about the sixties focusing on aspects of the session’s research that they find interesting
- Examine and use sources
- Use video editing software

 
Students tire of interpreting and responding to written text in the same ways. They want new fun ways to think about literature and new ways to represent it.The elements of comic writing challenges students to develop clear plots, realistic dialogues, and meaningful visual representations.The skills learned here can later be transferred to other forms of narrative writing.

 
Animation can be difficult to teach in schools so Park View CLC can come out and do it for you! We have 5 Apple laptops loaded with the software and CLC staff who will deliver the session and allow your pupils to create a completed animation. The film can cover any subject or topic. 

 Forensic science is guaranteed to grab the attention of many students – TV programmes such as Crime Scene Investigators just touch the surface of this fascinating branch of science. In this specially designed day, students will learn the basic techniques of an officer at the scene of a crime, and then go on to use more high-tech scientific methods such as fingerprint profiling and fabric sample analysis to try to eliminate suspects and analyse evidence.

  In this session children explore how to convey movement in their work. They explore dynamic activities such as sport, dance, drama and music as a starting point for making work in two dimensions. They look at how the idea of movement is shown in different kinds of art, such as photography and using ICT experiment with different methods and techniques to show movement. 

In this session children explore how signs, symbols and metaphors can be used to communicate ideas and meanings about a journey.  They learn about artists, craftspeople and designers who communicate their ideas through signs and symbols.

In this session, pupils explore their personal identity as a starting point. They create portraits of themselves that reflect their ideas, working from observation,and photographs.
They also learn about the ideas, methods and approaches used by other artists who have made images of themselves and/or portray others.