Spanish Summer School – Part 2

A second Spanish Summer School ran last week, essentially a repeat of the first one with different children. Once again it was a great success, with feedback from parents that their children were really keen to come back each day as they were enjoying it so much.

Here are some of the comic strips and animations they created – the pronunciation is fantastic on the animations:

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Music Video Summer School 2009

The CLC recently completed its inaugural Music Video Summer School, inspired by having a number of bands using our music recording facilities this year. Fourteen students spent 5 days at the centre creating a music video in 4 different groups. We asked one of the bands from our partnership schools, The Ruze (website here), to record one of their tracks for groups to create a video for. One of the groups chose to record their own song which gave them a chance to use the recording facilities. The following days were spent planning, filming, animating and editing the films, with students learning how to film using with the green screen and edit in Adobe Premiere.

You can hear feedback from one of the groups here

The finished videos were all excellent and were judged by a panel made up of CLC staff:

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Thanks to all the participants for their hard work, and particular thanks to The Ruze for the track and allowing the groups to film them playing.

Spanish Summer School #1

We have been running a number of summer schools at the CLC over the summer holidays, including a three day Spanish summer school. We had fourteen year 5 and 6 students learning the basics in Spanish, whilst using lots of ICT. They started with greetings, asking how you are and what your name is. They then used Comic Life to create short conversations illustrated with pictures of their choice:

Everyone then recorded their conversations using mp3 recorders and uploaded both comic strips and audio to Glogster.

On the second day the students learnt the numbers, how to say where you live and some simple weather. They then wrote and performed weather forecasts for a particular Spanish-speaking country in front of the green screen, so they could have a picture of the country in the background. They edited these in  Windows Movie Maker (once the backgrounds had been added in Adobe Premiere) and posted them onto their Glogs together with information they had found out about their country.

On day 3 they learnt the colours and pets, and in pairs created a short animation about animals – you can see all their efforts below.

In all it was a successful few days, and the use of ICT certainly seemed to be very effective in helping the participants learn their Spanish. Here is one parent’s feedback regarding her daughter’s experience:

“After her first day she came home and she had learnt more in one day than she had doing a year of Spanish at school! It has renewed her enthusiasm – combining technology/language and creativity has worked really well. Many thanks!”

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Summer Schools Programme at the CLC

We have now finalised our Summer School Programme for 2009. We have three different Schools running:

1. Learn Spanish through the Creative Use of Technology:

This is aimed at current year 5 and 6 students, and will run for 3 days. There are two possible dates (with the same content running each time) – 22nd-24th July and 12th-14th August. Participants will learn some basic Spanish using different aspects of technology such as film-making, animation, comic strip making and digital poetry. (No prior knowledge of Spanish required). This summer school is now full.

2. Music Video Summer School:

Aimed at 12-16 year olds who are interested in creating a music video, and it will run from the 27th-31st July. Bands from local schools will record the music and we’re looking for young people interested in all aspects of film-making and animation to create the video. This summer school is now full.

3. Web Station Summer School:

This summer school is aimed at students between 9 and 14 years old and runs from 3rd-7th August. The aim is to design and maintain a simple web-site with local and national news content. The content may be in  the form of short films, animations, music, blogs, interviews, digital photography. This summer school is now full.

To apply for all of these Summer Schools, download an application form here and return to:

Sheffield South City Learning Centre, by Newfield School, Lees Hall Road, Sheffield S8 9JP. E-mail info@ssclc.net.

Tel: (0114) 2587728 for more information.

Summer School at the CLC

We are currently planning our program for summer school this year. Look out for more information here in the next couple of weeks.