Real writing video clips
The films in "Writing schools" feature writing celebrations in schools and offer insights into how schools planned their writing projects. The "Writing professionals" video clips provide fascinating insights into the different ways writing is used in the worlds of work, hobbies and creativity.
Tell your story: Lordswood Girls’ Transition film
Students from Lordswood Girls School in Birmingham started a Year 7 Filmmakers Club. With the help of a professional digital artist the group scripted and directed a short film that gave Year 6 pupils an insight into starting secondary school.
Further information
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Writing role models
Making the headlines - the art of telling a story in six words
Writing out loud - writing for page, stage and the web
Winning Words - Pro competition entrant on writing catchy slogans
Subtext - a subtitler at the BBC on making TV accessible to all
Writing schools
Tell your story: Lordswood Girls’ Transition film - Yr 7 students script and direct a short film for yr6 transition
Tell your story - Yr 7 students create an audience-specific film for yr 6 pupils
Everybody Writes in Southampton - A Local Authority reflects on the effect Everybody Writes has had on attainment and engagement with writing across the borough.
Macaulay CE Primary School’s Everybody Writes Day - Pupils and parents celebrate writing for one special day
Oakwood Junior School’s Everybody Writes Day - Watch a short film about how this school planned its own Everybody Writes project from start to finish.
In a nutshell: quick clips of seven different writing projects
