May 31 2007
“The Piano” by Aidan Gibbons
Next week in our literacy lessons we are going to utilising a piece of content referenced in the new UK Primary Strategy. It is a short film called The Piano by animator Aidan Gibbons, take a look.
It is intended to be used by Year 5 children but our Year 6 kids will not have the opportunity to use this great little bit of film so I have adapted the original planning for older kids as we continue our poetry work.
By the end of the week I hope that the children will have a narrative poem that illustrates what occurs in the film. Further work could be done with the children working in Movie Maker and adding their narrated poem on top of the film.
Please let me know if anyone would find the planning useful.
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I hope you post about your children’s response to this video. It produces an emotional reponse in all the adults that I’ve discussed it with but I wonder whether children will “get it” without the need for a lot of prompts.
I have already seen some Year 5 expressing some really emotional responses to this piece of film, I will ensure that I post about the reaction from my class.
I’d love to see the planning please. I love this video and think that Y5 and 6 children could easily make great use of it without treading on each other’s toes.
Hi Sue - help yourself to the planning. Take a look at the Box.net widget on the left and scroll to the bottom. There are two files named “Week 1 - The Piano - 4.6.07″ one is a word document, my week’s literacy planning and the other is a SMART Notebook file.
I hope you find it useful.
Tom that is an amazing animation that truely catures life without words. I am going to use this as an example of how music and anmation can tell a story without talking then the older children an create their school life as an aimated movie. I know it is being used mainly as a Language lesson but since I now ony teach ICT i can see the potetial for children to explore an develop their animation and digital music skills.
[...] to my use of the animated short “The Piano” last year I discovered this excellent version of “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes as I researched [...]
Here’s one I liked “Homeless”:
http://ticklebooth.com/2007/07/homeless/
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I would love to see the planning. I am teaching this unit next week.
thanks
Our year 6 are working on this at the moment. Their teachers have got them to create their own flashback animations and will start their wriring next week. If you wanted to show your children please feel free to look at our podcasts - they are only quick sketches, not polished pieces of work, but they were really pleased with them.
http://podcast.lgfl.org.uk/channels/3052039Year-6-Flashback.xml