Animation Potential

Documentary - Animation during KS3 Art Club

Our department has been piloting some extra-curricular animation workshops with KS3 students (mostly year 7) and found a large number of boys interested, which is a change form the past when it has mostly been girls. At first we had over 35 students, but had to cap this number. There was a huge interest in being able to tell a story through stop-frame animation and the fun in being able to create sets, invent characters, add spontaneous elements and, perhaps most interestingly, work constructively as a team. If you want to see the video, please enter the name of the subject that Ms Powell teaches or email me and I'll send you the password. I would be interested in working with other subject teachers to use this process to engage students and help support their learning.