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Celebrity ambassadors help programme free educational film festival for UK schools
Pupils across the UK are once again being offered the opportunity to attend free cinema trips and access free resources through the Into Film Festival, with 3,000 film screenings and 200 special events taking place throughout the UK. Returning for its 7th year from 6-22 November, the Festival is the world’s largest free film festival and its many themes and topics can be utilised by educators across the curriculum, in subjects such as English, modern foreign languages (MFL), geography, history, PSHE, politics and citizenship. Pupils are encouraged to enter the annual Into Film Festival film review writing competition to promote literacy through film. The Festival, hosted by film education charity, Into Film, will launch this
year with an ambitious, environmentally themed event that spans the UK and is supported by Greenpeace and UNICEF. Simultaneous pupil premieres of the new climate change documentary 2040, which has been cited as the first film aimed at young audiences to offer a hopeful response to youth ‘eco-anxiety.’ The Festival special events programme also includes workshops with Access
VFX, environmental production company Green Screen, and stop-motion animator Tim Allen; Q&As with filmmakers including ‘Diego Maradona’ director, Asif Kapadia; Dirty God lead actor Vicky Knight and the filmmakers of Academy Award nominated short Black Sheep around the issue of knife crime; and other collaborations with Stonewall, Guide Dogs UK, Anti-Bullying Alliance, Oxfam and many more. This year’s Festival is comprised of eight strands that can help educators
navigate the packed programme: Mental Wellbeing & Identity, Language & Creativity, The Natural World, Exploring History, Debate, Fantasy & Adventure, Rebellion and Musicals. The Into Film Festival 2019 will take place from 6-22 November. All events
and screenings are free.
uwww.intofilm.org/iff19bookings
Children’s charity creates toolkit to help schools reframe competition
National children’s charity the Youth Sport Trust has launched an interactive toolkit and campaign to support the reframing of competition in school sports, following a successful 12-month pilot delivered through Sport England’s National Lottery investment in the School Games. The toolkit comes at a key time as the Government’s School Sport and
Activity Action Plan is encouraging the sector to build on the recommendations of Sport England’s Active Lives Children and Young People Survey. Insight from Active Lives showed that only 17.5% of children are
meeting the Chief Medical Officer’s guidelines of more than 60 minutes of activity a day, every day of the week, reinforcing a need to look at school sport competition differently. The Government’s new strategy has an overarching ambition that “all sport and physical activity provision for children and young people is designed around the principles of physical literacy, focused on fun and enjoyment, and reaching the least active”. Emily Reynolds, Head of Sport at the Youth Sport Trust, said: “No
longer can we ignore the fact that youth sport experiences have a wider role to play than finding the next Olympic/Paralympic champions. “Delivered well, competition can be fun, engaging and developmental.
The barriers to competition being enjoyed were regularly noted as the pressure, and aggressive behaviours displayed by peers and teachers in competition environments. The innovation seen during the pilots demonstrated that by clearly defining the purpose of the competition, a wide range of young people could recognise and celebrate their individual
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and collective success, increasing their enjoyment. During a basketball competition, young people scored points for competition of skills challenges, the result of the match and also their demonstration of values. This resulted in multiple and varied young people being celebrated.”
uwww.yourschoolgames.com/approaches-competition/ September 2019
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