Funding success
as tuition fees, screening fees, materials annd any additional equipment we might need. To begin our project, we took a small group of Year 5 children to a local residential care home and interviewed four people, the eldest being 98! An 84-year-old lady then came into school
and the pupils asked her about what life was like when she was young. They were amazed by how different it was, and we heard lots of lovely anecdotes. We recorded the interviews and I cut them down into a five-minute audio clip for each class. The children will now animate these using techniques such as cut-out animation and stop motion using objects, all recorded and edited
with iPads and the Stop Motion Studio app. A big part of the project and funding is the
community aspect, which means we need to hold screenings for the finished films. I’m hoping to hold five in total, including at the school and care home, along with a local cinema. There’s been a great level of excitement and
enthusiasm about the project, and I really hope the school will run similar projects in the future Projects such as this boost the children’s confidence and give them a real sense of pride in their achievements.’ Katy Milner, Parent, Kelvin Grove School, Lewisham, London (650 pupils)
‘Our Christmas raffle raised £1,075 for LEGO Boost Creative Toolboxes’
‘We start organising our Christmas raffle about a month in advance, and with the school being well known in the local community, we receive good prizes thanks to the generosity of local firms. At our last raffle we had around 15 prizes, including bowling vouchers, cinema vouchers, beauty therapies, various hampers, bottles of spirits and champagne, plus £100 cash. We always seek permission to thank benefactors publicly via our Facebook pages and on a display screen at school. We purchased 3,000 tickets for £40, and we
already had a £20 lottery licence so we could sell in advance. We advertised the raffle throughout December and sent a book of tickets home with every child for families to sell. Tickets cost £1 each, and as they came in books of five people generally bought a book. We also sold tickets at our Christmas concerts, with winners being drawn at the last performance. Our target was £900 to buy six LEGO Boost
Creative Toolboxes at £150 each. This idea was proposed by our lead ICT teacher, and the ‘coding’ aspect attracted her attention. She is quite active within the PTA and comes to most meetings, so
she had the opportunity to explain the benefits to us directly at one meeting. We were all excited by it and knew this would be something the children would get excited about, too. The raffle was a fantastic success and we
raised £1,075. We’ve had the LEGO Boost kits for five months now. The school were keen to structure a proper curriculum around the kits, and not have them wasted as “toys”. They’re proving to be a popular resource.’ Jamie Binns, PTA Member, Whittaker Moss Primary School, Rochdale, Greater Manchester (330 pupils)
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