Teachers are amazing!
Educators in schools and colleges are doing a fantastic job. Distilling information and presenting it in a dynamic way so that students can absorb and learn is such a difficult thing to do. Maintaining the energy and enthusiasm to connect all that learning with students is a gift!
But we all know that teachers are being stretched and stretched...
With increased budget cuts and administration demands, having the space and time to develop creative additions to their lesson plans to compound the understanding of a topic is unlikely. The time spent on creativity in general is being squeezed out of the curriculum too. Some schools only have time for 'Art Week' just once in a whole school year!
Bringing learning to life!
What if there was a creative and immersive learning experience you could engage students in that also increased literacy and numeracy skills. That could be linked it to a school's topic for that term, bring a subject to life, built creative confidence AND compounded the understanding of the subject?
“Learning is defined as an alteration in long-term memory. If nothing has altered in long-term memory nothing has been learned.”
Make Space workshops are exactly that. We focus on delivering stop-motion animation workshops in which young people take the lead by... →
- Translating what they are learning about into a storyboard.
- Creating original artwork
- Capture their stop motion film.
- Write a script.
- Record the audio to accompany the film.
It's an amazingly flexible medium that can be used to reiterate school topics, explore PHSE themes and bring awareness to current global topics amongst many other ideas. The possibilities are endless!
Not only that, by working collaboratively on an animation and seeing through the whole process from conception to final film, these workshops can bring amazing results from young people. Team works skills and confidence levels are gained which are key components in securing interest in learning and positive futures for students.
If you would like to discuss a Make Space workshop for your school, learning centre or organisation and to see how we can help bring learning to life, please get in touch using our contact form.
Past projects...
Please take a moment to explore our past projects through our Vimeo channel , which have included collaborations with different key stages. Notably, our most recent workshop, funded by the Lottery Community Fund, involved working with year 1 and year 2 students. Together, we delved into their visions for the future, specifically exploring what they would like to see in their community by the year 2030.
Our workshops embrace diversity and inclusivity, welcoming participants from preschool-age children to sixth form college students. We take pride in our commitment to support young people facing unique challenges, such as mental health issues, adjusting to new foster families, or transitioning away from mainstream schooling. Below is just a small section of the films we have helped young people make.
Animations with Foundation Stage
The children & parents of Rachel Keeling Nursery School to produce these great films.
Animations with Key Stage 2
These films were made during holiday projects with children that came together to work as a team!
If you would like to hear about workshops we will be running, resources for creative projects in school and clubs or any of our other projects, please pop your email below and we'll keep you in the loop!
