Documentaries

Year 0-3

QUEENS PARK TRIP. Sophie Ineson, Room 13, St Theresa's School. Year 0 to 3. Teacher: Robyn Wilson.

The Junior syndicate at St Theresa's headed for a visit to Queens Park as part of their new inquiry unit .The class was looking at how to grow successful pot plants and which pot would be best.
Mrs Wilson , Room 13 and Mrs Ineson collected footage of the trip to use to make an I Movie for the class to continue the learning back in class.
Sophie helped her mum make a movie before then making her own movie. Sophie scripted her text , took photos, constructed her voice overs, directed video footage of her clips at Queens Park the afternoon after her trip and selected the order to drop her footage into the i movie storyboard. Sophie added titles and used the Tellagami App to add further information that she wanted to share. She was also very keen to use her reading words when deciding on titles and to use her new fairy and dinosaur app.

SAFETY AND SURVIVAL. Room 1, St Thomas Aquinas. Year 0-2. Teacher: Tabitha Brock.

Room 1 students based this presentation on their learning from their Term 2 Inquiry Learning around Safety and Survival.
The presentation was created using iMovie, with voice over and various pictures of their learning included. The students were in charge of documenting their learning throughout the unit by having a child in charge of photography and blogging.

TEDDY BEARS PICNIC. Room 8, Winton School. Year 1. Teacher: Lynne Bell.

This documentary was created as an assembly presentation by a year one class at Winton School. Each holiday the junior students at Winton School complete a Reading Challenge to read a certain number of books over the holiday break. If they complete the challenge they are able to take part in a special event during the first week of term. To celebrate their success in the last Holiday Reading Challenge Room 8 held a Teddy Bears' Picnic on the 16th October 2013.The children wanted to show the rest of the school what they did so got a parent to film them on their walk then some students wrote and filmed a short narration to introduce the film clip. All the filming was done using iPads. Three year one students aged 5 and 6 wrote the script,performed it and also filmed it with minimal adult support. The resulting video will be shared on Room 8's classroom blog for families to enjoy as well.

Year 4-6

WHY DO WE HAVE SEASONS? Kowhai, Myross Bush School. Year 5&6. Teacher: Mark Herring.

This documentary was created as the end result of an inquiry into how the Earth, Sun and Moon interact. 5 Year 5 and 6 boys used a range of media to demonstrate their understanding of why we have seasons. They used images and modelling to get their info across to an audience. This dock was created on iMovie, on an iPad mini.

A DAY IN HISTORY. Billy, Halfmoon Bay School. Year 6. Teacher: Kath Johnson.

At the beginning of the year we created Day in History movies. These involved researching to find out events that had happened on our birthdays. Once we had the events we had to write the script for each event then find high quality pictures or make screen recordings from the Internet to go with each event. Once we had all the pictures/ video it was time to use the voice over function in iMovie to record the narration. Then it was a case of putting in titles and transitions and any extras we wanted.

SCOOTERS. Lachie, Toby and Shaun, Room 1, Makarewa School. Year 6. Teacher: Nicola Young.

This term the children have been studying an investigations
assignment. They were asked to direct a documentary on something they were passionate about. The results were to showcase their skills learned in imovie, and camera skills. After each group had agreed on a topic they went away and started recording.
After the films had been rolled, and the editing had been done, we were thoroughly impressed with the results. But you can see for yourself.

Year 7&8

DEEP COVE: A LAND LOST IN TIME. Room 3, St Thomas Aquinas Winton. Year 7 and 8. Teacher: Joy Quinlan.

In term 2 our class went to Deep Cove. To share our learning with the rest of the school, we decided to do a documentary using the app ‘smoovie’. To use the app you need to take a number of photos to create a scene. We used the iPad to create ours. Then you need to put voiceovers in. You need to use moviemaker to put the voice overs in.
We decided to do a mix of playdough and Lego to create our documentary. As our documentary came along we made a decision to add credits on the end and have an opening title.

THE VELODROME: SOUTHLAND'S HOME OF CYCLING. Hannah Witheford, Southland Girl's High School. Year 7. Teacher: Sharee Ineson.

This was an independent inquiry project for Hannah Witheford . Hannah selected this topic as it relates to her interest and passion for cycling. Hannah included a focus on her personal goals within the project including communicating with others in a interview situation and having the confidence to take a risk and use her gifts and talents to complete this project to a high level.
Hannah started with a brainstorm of ideas and used creative problem solving rubric and a PMI to help make a final decision on her selected topic.
She used a storyboard to plan her documentary , completed her script and then was flexible in being able to complete different components of her documentary at different times based on resources available to her.Hannah selected fellow students to be cast within the documentary. Hannah combined the skills of editing ,photography ,research , interviewing,filming,script writing,time management,to complete her final piece. Hannah also made use of the MADE Awards website to critique entries as a baseline for her entry.

USING IPADS TO TAKE ACTION. 7NA, Southland Girls High School. Year 7. Teacher: Sharee Ineson.

During term two and three this year Mrs Ineson was one of our relievers along with Mrs Rutledge.Within our learning package work we looked at ways we could use the I pads to enhance ways we could create and share our learning through the taking action stage of our inquiry based learning packages. Mrs Ineson was also gathering our student voice on which i pad applications engaged and motivated us the most when we worked together on collaborative learning challenges as part of her teacher inquiry.You will see how we started using QR Codes as a way to engage our audience when we presented our Envirowatch Rice Show, use of puppet pals when were shared ballet stories during our Musical Showcase package with a pre school dance class to build their knowledge of stories they might dance to and animation when we looked at different ways to present biographies during our innovation package. You will also see a small snippet where we used Tellagami to work with our visiting students from Kumagaya . Although it is not shown in the documentary we also used book creator to publish recipes as part of our well being package and then just for fun made video star clips.Our documentary represents a collation of learning across the two terms collected by us as we went and narrated by Ruchika.

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