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Determined to Make Movies

<p>A group of P7 children put forward a proposal for a film which had to come under the banner of 'Legacy&nbsp;of Hope'.&nbsp; This&nbsp;was accepted for the Determined to Make Movies competition.&nbsp; After that all the P7&nbsp;pupils were invited to a special screening of 'The Boy in Stripped Pyjamas' givinging them plenty to think about.</p> <p>The next step was for the production team to come up with a script and choose pupils to act in their drama.&nbsp; They were given the equipment for 4 weeks just before the Spring Break to film and edit their 5 minute film about bullying which&nbsp;was titled 'A Long Monday for Mike'</p> <p>On Sunday 20th June 16 pupils and adults from our school attended the awards ceremony in the GFT-we had been shortlisted for Best Drama and two children Sona Dass and Jack Anderson were up for best actor.&nbsp; Everone was delighted when we received Highly Commended in the Drama section and Jack won best actor!</p> <p>Apart from the success of their film the children feel they learned a great deal particularly about workning together, using peoples strengths and keeping to a deadline.</p>