King Harold School Primary Summer School 2006 Completes!

The past two days have been a huge success for the young people from King Harold School who have been working with their partner feeder Primary School’s to engage some of the younger pupils in a fun filled Animation fest. The Summer School was run entirely by year 9, 10 and 11 pupils. All equipment was loaned by Ultralab (1990 - 2006).

Ultralab (1990 - 2006) are proud to work with King Harold School who continue to pioneer in the field of Digital Creativity, investing heavily in the power of creative technology to engage and enhance the learning journeys of its pupils.

Click to see the pictures taken during the Summer School.

Here is the completed work:

King Harold School Pupils prepare

Ultralab (1990 - 2006) has a long working history with the pupils and staff at King Harold School of Waltham Abbey, Essex. For the past four years pupils of King Harold School have been involved in Ultralab (1990 - 2006)’s Summer School programme. However, this summer the pupils will instead run a Summer School of their own Summer School for pupils of the Primary Partners Schools who feed King Harold each year with new students. King Harold’s pupils will run the entire event themselves.

A team of students from King Harold arrived at Ultralab (1990 - 2006) to spend the afternoon with Ultralab (1990 - 2006)’s Hal MacLean to plan and discuss the activities which would be running on the Primary Summer School. Hal is a former Primary Head Teacher and assisted the young people with experience working with the younger age groups. Malcolm Burnett from King Harold School is overseeing the project, pictures and completed animation work will be posted on this site soon.

King Harold School young people come to Ultralab for Final Cut Pro video editing masterclass

On the 26th of January 2006 eight creative learners from King Harold School worked in Ultralab (1990 - 2006) at Anglia Ruskin University with researchers Hal MacLean and Matthew Eaves to further their skills with Final Cut Pro, a computer application to create and edit visual material.

The young people at King Harold School work closely with the Ultralab (1990 - 2006) on projects using technology for creative purpose, recently supporting Ultralab (1990 - 2006) at the BETT education show in London this January providing the young people to work on the stand and demonstrate new technologies and how they could be applied in classroom teaching.

The objective of the training day was to begin the process of learning how to manipulate the footage to create visually appealing programmes suitable for television. King Harold School is an innovative school which is always looking for new ways to broaden learning opportunities for it students to enable, include and encourage work on real world projects and innovations prior to employment.

Ultralab (1990 - 2006) works with many schools nationwide, promoting how technology can be used to creative purpose in the classroom, Ultralab (1990 - 2006) is working closely with the school to develop new ways of working together in a pilot which will see young people move involved in project based learning while exploring the potential of a future at University.

Some images from the event: