Tag Archives: Lockdown 2020

Nature in your Neighbourhood – Film making competition

From Into Film

We want children and young people to create a short film and use nature and their surroundings in an engaging and creative way, to capture the calmness and document something they’ve noticed or appreciated while spending more time in their local area. Whether it’s in the garden, the local park, or even from inside the home, the natural world is all around us. Encourage children to get creative and use their natural surroundings to make a short film, 3 mins or under in length (including titles and credits) using what equipment you have in the home. Films can be made on a mobile phone, tablet or camera, and we have a range of filmmaking resources to help support you.

There’s lots of advice, resources and information (including the prizes) at the address below

https://www.intofilm.org/competitions/16

Closing date: Friday 19th June

Little Angel Theatre

Watch the Little Angel Theatre on YouTube for some hilarious puppet shows based on Jon Klassen picture books and a whole heap of fairy tales.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmAEEtplnZ3YkZ3FWfbwJPQ

You can also read about the background to the shows  – including the cardboard box theatre – on this BBC report – which also shows how other people have been building mini theatres for themselves, just with whatever’s lying around

You’re never too old for a picture book, and you’re never too old for a puppet show 🙂

Bruce Springsteen on YouTube

Bruce Springsteen has added a number of live concerts from his archives to his YouTube channel free to watch, including Hyde Park  2009, Hammersmith Odeon 1975 and the New Orleans Jazz Festival 2006.

If you know of any other freely available online concerts or performances, please let me know and I’ll share here and on Twitter, @OLHSLRC.

https://www.youtube.com/brucespringsteen

Oi Frog!

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

Three Uncanny Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson

Audio versions of Three Uncanny Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson  are available as free downloads from ASLS and read online (via YouTube).

Tale o Tod Lapraik read by James Robertson

Thrawn Janet read by Alan Bissett

The Bottle Imp read by Louise Welsh

See website for more information:
https://asls.arts.gla.ac.uk/StrangeTales.html

The Tale o Tod Lapraik

The Scots in Schools website features a collection of literature written in Scots or translated from standard English into Scots.

One of the stories is a comic version of The Tale o Tod Lapraik by Robert Louis Stevenson, which you can download to read in colour or black and white, or listen to as a n audio version (on a different website – see below):

“Robert Louis Stevenson’s horror story The Tale o Tod Lapraik is a masterpiece of prose written in the Scots language. Scots Hoose is delighted to present Gary Welsh’s world-class artwork in this exciting new comic version of Stevenson’s classic story of suspense and cruelty set in the Firth of Forth on the mysterious Bass Rock.”

http://www.scotsinschools.co.uk/secondary.html