Beowulf

Year 4 have been studying the story of Beowulf as part of their learning about Anglo Saxons. The story is written as a poem and tells the tale of brave Beowulf who kills the monster Grendel. Anglo Saxons wrote in runes so the classes translated runes to find out about life in Anglo Saxon times.

Anglo Saxons made their own paints and pigments so the classes experimented with making their own paint to illustrate their story of Beowulf. 

The children mixed chalk, berries, ash or charcoal with PVA glue to make home made paints. I wonder which ingredient made which colour.

Award Winning Film

More news of Coral class' amazing win in the National Youth Film Festival Awards. Follow the link below to see clips from other winners.





http://www.filmclub.org/whats-new/details/1743/the-national-youth-film-festival-awards-and-the-winners-are



The National Youth Film Festival Awards

Today a group of Coral Class filmmakers went to a huge and exciting awards ceremony in central London. Their film had been one of only 3 nominated in the short film category for 5-10 year olds.

The children met all sorts of important people from the film and TV industry.

 

We went into the cinema and realised that there were hundreds of other children who wanted their films to win the award. 

We were so excited as we waited for the ceremony to begin. The nominations were read out by an important guest and then we watched short clips from the films. 

"And the winner is...

...Columbia School!"

A big spotlight picked out all the children as they walked to the stage as they went up to receive the award.  Anis and Emile made a short speech on behalf of all Coral Class.

Everything was projected onto the huge screen.

The children had more photos taken with their award and Fidha and Poppy even gave a short video interview.

We all had a fabulous time and felt so excited about the whole experience.

Don't forget you can watch the award winning film on our vimeo site.

On The Red Carpet

Coral Class' film, 'Wow! Mayhem in the Music Hall' has been nominated for an award at the National Youth Film Festival! 

It is a huge honour to have been chosen by the judges from hundreds of other children's films.
A group of children will be dressing up and going to a glitzy award ceremony in Leicester Square with Olly and Philippa on Friday afternoon. 
Fidha, from Coral Class, will be tweeting back to the rest of her class during the afternoon so that everyone can hear how it's going. 
Don't forget you can watch this and many of our other films on our vimeo site.
http://vimeo.com/columbiaschool