Years 1 & 2 Neighbourhood 2
This week we have completed our films, bringing to an end our incredible inquiry for the year “what is a story?” Through our production companies, we have become filmmakers, writers, editors and storytellers. For our final blog post, we also have the opportunity to look back on our journey from this semester through our final …
Students are coming to the end of filming their collaborative films in the three production companies. As a whole neighbourhood, we had a discussion about how we were finding the film making stage of our inquiry projects so far – things we have enjoyed and challenges we have had, and then looked forward to the …
This past fortnight Neighbourhood 2 have been getting very serious in their weaving together of all the many elements of film making we have been hard at work on, the; character development, setting production, script writing, table talks, filming and production company meetings. We have also been working with Deb to develop our musical considerations …
How can we draw on the films and videos around us to make a master film in our production companies? This was a key question explored by the neighbourhoods this week. Students in each of our three production companies have been working hard, polishing sets, editing scripts, developing sound scapes and readying the camera equipment. …
Students in the 1/2 Neighbourhood 2 started Term 4 working in their three Inquiry groups – Team Toys Productions, Pickle Family Productions and Paw Armadillos Productions. All students have been very engaged in developing characters, settings, and story lines – taking ownership over the project and collaborating successfully within their groups. Week 1 and Week …
Over the past few weeks Team Toys, Paw Armadillos and the Pickle Family production companies have been super productive. Production meetings have been held weekly, where ideas have been decided on and questions raised. In provocations we have then developed these questions and ideas further. A big success in our meetings was the creation of …
Over the last few weeks, we have continued to build our understanding of stories and how stories are created. Our big ideas that we are investigating are ‘Films are developed with a big idea first’ and ‘Films have a message and purpose’. Through provocations and in workshops, students worked to identify the main themes that …
Book week really is one of the biggest weeks in the school year! Pure joy and excitement as we drive head first into quality books, stories, characters and imagination. This year, book week was even bigger and better, with two full days of whole school celebration as well as all the learning undertaken through workshops …
This fortnight in Neighbourhood 2 we have continued inquiring into storytelling, building our story-writing capacity and working towards making our own film working in a project group. We have been asking ourselves, what is important to us in our lives? And we found that friends, family and toys were our top priorities. We will continue …
This week, the children of 1/2N2 have been exploring the question “What makes a great film?”. This is the next step for our inquiry as we draw on excitement and prior knowledge of how to create films to share messages and stories. In order for the children to build an understanding of filmmaking and how …