Scargill Infants and Parkhill Juniors - New Video Conferencing sessions

The children at Parkhill Juniors have once again been video conferencing with children at Scargill Infant school in Havering. Today a class from Year 3 and a group of Year 6 children took part in two separate video conferences with classes at Scargill Infant School.

Click here to read about how they shared work, read stories and played a guessing game.

National Schools Film and Animation Awards

BFI SouthBank - November 23rd 2009

We were delighted to have been shortlisted for the KS2 Mixed Media category for the above national award.

Mrs Dorling, Mrs Seagrave, Mrs Caroline and the four children who made the film "Water - Making a Difference" travelled to the BFI award ceremony and spent a wonderful afternoon being interviewed, watching the nominated films and being entertained by a magician, beat box artist and freestyle dancers.

The event was sponsored by TAG Learning and Schools Tube and was hosted by Floella Benjamin OBE, Hon D. Litt (Exon). It was a fantastic experience and everyone had a superb time.

Our film did not win the main category but just to be shortlisted in such a high profile competition was reward enough. We will certainly enter the competition again next year.

You can read more about this project in the Blog entry of 29th June.

Click here to watch our film.

London Grid for Learning Primary Schools' Conference 2009

Monday 2nd November 2009

Alison Seagrave and Lesley Caroline were invited to the Emirates Stadium to give a presentation about the work Parkhill Junior has been doing using Video Conferencing.

To our delight we received an award for "Innovative and effective use of LGfL resources or services to enhance learning and attainment". This was in recognition of the work the children have been doing using video conferencing, LGfL resources to support curriculum work and the London MLE (Fronter) to support personalised learning and assessment.

To find out more please click on the pictures.