Torbay RTC: Tackling Literacy with iLife

Live blog from #torbayrtc

Key goals:

• Get visitors to learn something (teachers and pupils)
• Make visitors want to learn
• Give as many different learning styles a chance to learn as possible
• create exciting learning environment
• Develop partnerships
• Sustainability

Describing a project involving 30 "excitable" Year 5 pupils and their teacher. Project wrote a rap about literacy. The original idea was to get the pupils into a studio and record the rap. Extended by getting students to create a backing track in Garageband. The class produced fifteen backing tracks and had an X Factor vote to choose the best. The next step was to storyboard and produce videos. The project took place over five weeks. The students edited the video:



The Rose Report says that their should be more emphasis on performing and visual arts. The presenter said, "They are speaking our language".