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

Sharing a Shell

Children and teachers in the EYU have been reading "Sharing a Shell" by Julia Donaldson. They have been thinking about the kind of creatures that live in water. 

Reception children looked at  fish  and water creatures in class and then the "experts"  visited a fish shop to look at  fish in tanks. 

Now the Reception children have made some suggestions about the kind of fish that could live in our new school pond! Some children in the School House are going to research further  to find out if it is the right habitat for those fish.

Our Local Area

As part of our topic on the local area, Sapphire and Silver classes used our sketching, painting, printing and photography skills to create our own Columbia Road!

First we went on a walk to sketch the buildings and features of the local area.

Then we made our own buildings, using colour mixing and printing to make them look real.

We took photos of each other and thought about how we wanted to look. Can you tell what some of us are doing or how we are feeling?

Year 3 Mural

Year 3 continue the work on their huge 3-D mural inspired by 'Bathers at Asnieres'. They have painted the 3-D models and the next step was to add the details to the background.


These children are working collaboratively to stencil small details of waves to make the water more realistic.

Latin Jazz Day

Continuing the celebrations of Black History Month, our brass, percussion, recorder and guitar students worked alongside leading Latin instrumentalists to develop our understanding of Latin music and its African roots.

The day culminated in a performance for parents in the top hall and a video of this for those who could not attend will soon be on our vimeo site.

Bhangra dance and drum workshop

As part of Black History Month celebrations, children in Year 5 have been working alongside a drum teacher and Bhangra dance teacher to learn new drum and dance skills. Children had a chance to use dhol drums as well as the school's djembe drums. 

The children worked with the specialist teachers over a number of weeks, learning new skills and enjoying themselves immensely.Finally, they performed their music and dance to other classes in the school.