We were invited to work with Ripon Holy trinity as part of the Ripon Museums Arts Award scheme. In collaboration with the museum we delivered a 4 day programme of Stopmotion animation skills for year 6 pupils.
This was a challenging project to deliver because the school is 2 form meaning we needed to run each session 4 times. The classes were divided into 4 groups. Below is an example of some of the things we did with the pupils. InspirEd Workshops delivered the practical animation sessions and staff from Ripon Museums lead the rest.
| Class 1A | Class 1B | Class 2A | Class 2B | |
| Thurs 6th June AM | Animation challenge | Researching their ArtsInspiration. Writing up Workbook | Watch Early Man. Film critique. Workbooks | Watch Early Man. Film critique. Workbooks |
| Thurs 6th June PM | Researching their Arts Inspiration. Writing up Workbook | Animation challenge | Story development | Story development |
| Friday 7th June AM | Watching Animation Film then breaking into groups to discuss. Fill in workbooks. | Morphing animation | Researching their ArtsInspiration. Writing up Workbook | Morphing animation |
| Monday 17thJune AM | Character & set building | Character & set building | Lesson development | Teach younger class to model |
| Monday 17thJune PM | animation | animation | Lesson development | Teach younger class to model |
| Thursday 27thJune AM | Lesson development | Teach younger class to model | Character & set building | Character & set building |
| Thursday 27thJune PM | Lesson development | Teach younger class to model | Animation | Animation |
To start we taught a simple skills lesson to introduce the children to Stopmotion animation. We started by learning how to animate a ball rolling across the table at two speeds. The lesson concluded with the pupils animating a toy eating a tree that grew out of the table.
In order to achieve an Arts award the pupils were required to plan a lesson to deliver to a younger class. In this instance the yr 6’s delivered a modelling and Stopmotion lesson based on my first skills workshop. It was a pleasure to watch the children do this and it really showcased their new skills and confidence.
The finale of the project was to animate a story based on the Morph episode ‘Portable Hole’. The idea is to create a narrative around something disappearing and reappearing from a black hole. Here is a playlist which includes the children’s skill challenges and final films.
Here’s a little video of what we got up to!
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