Range of opportunities

Creativity also implies a range of opportunities for children.  Robin Hood has had its own TV Crew for many years - Robin Hood TV.  The job of the Robin Hood TV crew has been to regularly report on things going on around the school.  The TV crew has provided a communications medium... with children and with parents... and has enabled successive groups of children to learn a whole range of skills and techniques associated with film making and reportage.

This short film was submitted as an entry to the first Leeds Golden Owls Film festival in March 2012.  The film reached the final shortlist of three for the award.

Typically, films made by the Robin Hood TV film crew are shared with parents and the community at the Friday Celebration Assembly and are also displayed on a dedicated 'TV Station' that plays films made in the school on a continuous loop.  Children often stop to watch the films.  It is exciting for them that they are the starts and the subjects of the films that are displayed.  This often provides positive reinforcement for the children in terms of their perceptions of themselves as effective and high-achieving learners.  being 'on television', of course, brings a feeling of kudos and authority.  Children are able to adopt the Mantle of the Expert.