We discovered that millions of children in the world don't get to go to school for lots of different reasons. Some girls have to look after their younger brothers or sisters, or they have to get married very, very young. Some children have to go out to work instead of going to school. We found out that some families cannot afford to send their children to school, and sometimes war and unrest disrupts children's education. We tried to show images that could convey messages about how sad we found this in the first bit of our film.
We did lots of philosophy and discussion work this term about why education was the right of every child, and why it is so important. For this part of our movie, and dance, we wanted to use images and colour that showed happiness, fun, laughter and joy. We chose video images that showed girls and boys going to school, even girls going to school with male teachers, children taking their younger siblings to school so everyone can learn, and lots of shots of what we love about school-books and reading, art, music, writing, maths, and PE.
The last bit of our movie had to be loaded separately for technical reasons!! It is the video Andy shot in our classroom and put together for us. It shows us having fun. We wanted this because we think learning is fun, and we truly believe it is the right of every child.
We hope you enjoy watching them.
