Highfield Primary School: Anti-Bullying

Following on from our visits to Highfield Primary School for their innovative Poetry Residency, we were invited later in 2015 to capture the Anti-bullying Strategies that the school have in place.

We worked alongside the school’s Learning Mentors and pupils to deliver the key messages in a way that would be accessible across the school. We were introduced to the School’s Core Values of ‘Kindness, Respect and Co-operation’ and were delighted that the student’s contributions and behaviour embodied these values.

The filming day was long but a great deal of fun and a real collaboration between the school staff and their patient, hardworking pupils.

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Poetry Residency at Highfield Primary School

One of our favourite projects this year has been documenting the work of resident poet Cheryl Moskowitz at Highfield Primary School in Enfield. We’d worked with Cheryl previously on the fantastic Visual to Vocal project at Dulwich Picture Gallery. We were delighted to work with Cheryl again at Highfield and made six trips over six months to capture the extent that poetry has been embraced in the school. This project has been a very unusual venture in a primary school and even captured the eye of the national press:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/schools/the-primary-where-poetry-is-in-motion-9770004.html

It was a real privilege to be involved in documenting this residency and to watch the children develop their love of poetry, win competitions, grow up and build relationships through their work with a professional poet. We covered every part of this incredibly diverse school and felt welcomed into the community over our time there. The films still only really scratch the surface of Cheryl’s work and the school’s commitment to poetry.

Horniman Museum and Gardens: Engage

The Horniman runs a very inclusive volunteer programme providing public facing activities and experiences for their visitors helping them to engage with the museum and garden collections. Engage in nature, it is also Engage in name. The Engage Programme was started five years ago in 2009 and to mark this anniversary we were invited to make a short film explaining the work that was shown as part of the celebrations at an Afternoon Tea in the Pavilion of the Horniman Gardens.

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With so much to cover we had a packed day giving is a real insight to the variety of opportunities available to volunteers. We were able to see, not only how much the visitors get out of their interactions with the hard working volunteers, but how much the volunteers get back by speaking to former volunteers who are now employed – both at the museum and in other organisations.

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Luckily we had really beautiful weather which really helped capture the feeling and atmosphere of this successful addition to a wonderful museum.