Engaging students, improving learning, raising standards Bringing film into your classroom, taking your class to the cinema


Film helps children and young people approach higher order learning skills of application, evaluation, synthesis and analysis with increased confidence and enthusiasm.


Provides a powerful experience for students and enriches and extends significant core elements of the curriculum.


Supports and challenges children and young people to engage with and question texts as well as contributing to increased positive social interaction skills and cultural understanding. Film Education


Develops teacher knowledge and skills through the delivery of high quality CPD.


In 2011, Film Education organised and participated in 28 workshops and seminars for teachers on the use of film in the classroom across a range of subject areas.


Provides authentic and involving curriculum related teaching materials which allow children and young people to be creatively critical and critically creative. Embeds film in the curriculum through the production of subject related and generic teaching materials.


We achieve this through  A website containing over 500 downloadable teaching resources with over 300,000 visits a year to www.filmeducation.org.


 88,000 copies of disc based interactive resources and 45,500 associated posters and study resources sent to schools in 2011.


 10,000 requests from schools and colleges across the UK for interactive generic resources.


The cinema as classroom In 2011, Film Education organised 2,500 screenings for 468,000 young people as part of as part of National Schools Film Week, Film Education’s flagship event and the largest film festival for school students in the world.


Since 2000 we have enabled over 3 million primary and secondary schools to attend Film Week. Provides teachers and students with the opportunity to experience a wide range of films at local cinemas free of charge.


Enhances the cinema experience with talks and presentations by creative, technical, academic and commercial experts at film screenings. Ensured screenings are inclusive and accessible for young people with sensory impairments and physical disabilities.


Developed an annual cinema experience programme that includes mini-festivals in March and July, film tours and screenings, featuring: European Cinema, World Cinema, British Films and Films Made in Britain, Films that Shook the World, and new releases with specific educational value.


Visit www.filmeducation.org to find out more information on Film Education’s activities and events and enrol your school/college in our ever-developing programme.


Research carried out by the Film: 21st Century Literacy Strategy shows that:  99% of teacher respondees felt that film is a useful teaching tool across the curriculum and helped students engage with their subject.


 90% of student respondees felt that film was a useful way of learning. For further information on the Strategy and additional research findings go to www.21stcenturyliteracy.org.uk


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