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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