Student Voice

Media students at Great Barr school produced a great short film to promote their school.

A great way to showcase a school is through the voice, creativity and expertise of your students. This week we worked alongside Media students from Great Barr School in Birmingham. Responding to a brief the team produced a film for prospective parents and future students. Young people led the creative process and with our support and guidance developed this project from concept to completion.

Exceeding all expectations the students have managed to present the ethos, environment and heartbeat of the school in a natural positive way. Showcased at the Governors meeting last night, the film will be an important tool in the school’s ongoing public facing communication strategy. It has also delighted the current student group who agreed it represents their school really well.

The principles of the ‘student voice’ voice underpins our practice and we are always interested in finding ways to make learning experiences ‘real’. The students had a taste of the real world of film making and we also coached them in an after school ‘master class’ offering a critique (with practical tips) of their course work film assignments.

“This has been a brilliant project and the efficiency, creativity  and quality of the whole process has been really impressive, I am delighted and the film has had an uplifting impact on our school community”

Ms Abbott, Head Teacher