The Full English!

Posting by Ranjit Hayer (Business Studies teacher) and Nick Waring (Curriculum Leader for Media)

It’s great when students from different courses get the opportunity to join forces on mutually beneficial projects. Some of our students have had just such an opportunity this week thanks to an educational media company called “The Full English”.

Students from Media, Business and IT got involved in the project with The Full English, who produce educational resources to help promote English in exciting multi-media ways.

This project is aided by funding from British Telecom and the project is to develop a DVD, teachers' book and website all about Spoken Language - primarily to support this new component of GCSE English, with a little A Level on the side. The final products will be a completely free-of-charge set of resources that will go out to 5,000-6,000 schools and colleges in England and Wales.

The Full English are collaborating with a company called Dialogics, who are expert in video production, and this is where our Media students come in as they have had the opportunity to work with the production company and get real, hands-on experience of the filming process.

The filming is taking on a video diary style, and three pairs of multi-lingual students (from Media, Business and IT) have been the focus of the filming. They have been interviewed regarding their multi-lingual capabilities. In particular, they have been talking about when they use the different languages they speak; for example, they may speak English at College, but Punjabi when at home.

We are really looking forward to seeing the final products and are grateful to The Full English and to Dialogics for involving our students in the creative process. We feel it was a great opportunity for them and they have learned a lot.

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