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working inside the school curriculum
end2end TV is a community interest company, based at Hurstmere School, owned and run by Peter Barrett and Lorraine Smith. As a part of the curriculum, they for two days a week giving pupils the opportunity to work in a professional TV Studio and production control room on various innovative projects and accessible film making activities.
Using Digifilmix
Our TV Studio and Production Control Room at Hurstmere School is entirely new and innovative. In the multi camera green screen studio pupils literally merge with the backgrounds surrounding them! Pupils are able to edit and adapt these backgrounds to meet their needs and interact with them; allowing them to extend their learning and understanding of narrative, literacy and technical skills across all subject areas in a unique environment. It’s exciting to be pioneering this new learning technique in a studio setting and giving young people opportunities that they have never encountered before.
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Collaborative article published in the national news, written by the pupils:
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We had some of our Geography lessons in a TV Studio last year! I go to Hurstmere School in Sidcup, and we are lucky enough to have end2end TV based at our school. They are an external TV Production Company, who work in partnership with Hurstmere for two days a week, so some of our lessons are entirely different!
We have taken our Geography learning to the studio and worked with end2end to produce programmes that will be used as a learning resource for others, as well as being a great way to bring our learning to life using film. We have used end2end TV’s Digifilmix techniques to edit and adapt backgrounds, present to camera and literally merge into the topic. We even get to use the cameras and other equipment to produce the film too!
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Pupil Feedback:
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"I think it’s brilliant. We have brought our Geography topics to life and as well as that, we have learnt how to operate cameras and present in front of them too. It’s been an amazing experience as it has taught me skills I wouldn’t normally have learnt in school."
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"It’s good to learn in a different way. If you are sitting in class and all the lessons use PowerPoint, you can get bored of it. However, if you learn in a different way and it’s interactive, it will stick in your head for longer."
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"It’s an experience pupils will remember, I know I will – it’s not like you are sitting down doing stuff, you are actively involved and enjoying learning."
"I know lots of schools really pride themselves in having theatres in their schools, but I don't know another school that has got a multi camera TV Studio and Production Control Room. This is unique to Hurstmere School and offers unique opportunities and exciting possibilities for children and young people across the curriculum."
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Mark Reid - former Head of Education, British Film Institute, now Senior Lecturer in English Education at UCL
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Using our innovative Digifilmix ® filmmaking technics we worked in groups to produce stories on film. Rather than writing their stories in books during literacy lessons, the pupils were able to plan, storyboard and film their story ideas using. Using our live green screen studio they were able to express themselves by filming mixing and editing to produce finished digital outputs; from concept to creation.
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Dedicated Arts Award centre​
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Many of the pupils who work with us during curriculum time fulfil the requirements of the Arts Award Discover and receive certificates validated by Trinity College, London, presented to them during prize giving celebrations at School. We are also currently working with pupils in Year 10-11 who are working towards a Silver Arts Award, (equivalent to a GCSE 9-4). More information about the five levels of the Arts Award Scheme can be found online.
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