Teach Secondary Issue 14.7

Bookings are nowbeing taken for the Into Film Festival – a celebration of filmtaking place at over 600 cinemas across the UK from 7th to 28th November.Open exclusively to UK educators and pupils aged 5 to 19, the event will include 3,000 free film screenings, as well as Q&As with assorted screen industry professionals and a range of curriculum-linked special events. Said screenings will include the UK premiere of Future Council (pictured) – a campaigning documentarywith fantastical set pieces that follows the experiences of eight children as they travel across Europe, interviewing notable business leaders while searching for solutions to humanity’s toughest ecological challenges.The festival will close with a pupil premiere of Zootropolis 2 , and there will be additional pupil premieres for Gurinder Chadha’s new film Christmas Karma (a Bollywood take on Dickens’ AChristmas Carol ); Australian family comedy, Kangaroo ; and the concluding part of last year’s all-conquering Oz-set musical, Wicked: For Good . Those planning to attend should also take note of the Into FilmFestival Review Writing Competition,which will task young audiencemembers with reviewing films they have seen, and awardwinning entries the prize of a £200 voucher to be shared among the entrant’s class. Formore information andbooking details, visit intofilm.org/festival ; seatswill be awarded on afirst comefirst servedbasis, withwaiting lists available. Creative exercises to get students generating new ideas A F E W M I N U T E S O F D E S I G N #37 ALTERNAT IVE ARRANGEMENTS Trace around this image three times to give yourself three frames. Draw the five pictured elements in three different arrangements or compositions. One composition in each frame. You can simplify the elements. You can change the scale of any or all of them. You can overlap or connect them. Give each of your compositions a name. Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social It tends to be secondary people who think skills are just more knowledge rather than also having physical and psychological elements. It’s definitely something you see said and a powerful influence on Ofsted. There was a slide Ofsted did about how toilet training is a series of ‘knowledge items’... Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social Aquarter of England state secondary schools have no dedicated physics teacher. Shortages in other subjects too. Govts don’t plan long-term, quick to cut real wages of public sector workers. University fees and student debt are a disincentive. Migrant labour can’t solve all systemic failures, Follow us via @teachsecondary and @teachsecondary.bsky.social Get Into Film TEACHER TAL ES True stories fromthe education chalkface Mime’s a cough, please... I used to regularly nag our youngmale students for not fastening the top buttons of their shirts. Some neededmore encouragement than others.One such fellow once spottedme in the corridor and immediately raised his hand to his neck, in an effort to conceal his sartorial slip. Knowing that I was heading directly for him, he paused, extended his other armout to hold the balustrade, and in an epic performance, proceeded to act out an ever-escalating coughing fit.At its climax, bystanders started to wonder if he was experiencing a seizure.As I walked past this prone figure clutching the balustrade for dear life, I said quietly into his ear, “ Fasten your top button, please. ”To which he replied, inmeasured tones,“ Yes, sir ” – and then calmlywalked away. Naturally, those who witnessed the event forever held the view that I possessed some mystical powers that could ail tormented souls, simply bywhispering in their ear... Like and subscribe Who’s been saying what on the socials thismonth? Here’s a tip Our headteacher was extremely proud of his yellowCitroen 2CV, andwas delighted at being able to peel back the car’s roof during his journey to school on sunny summermornings. Unfortunately, however, on one such morning he forgot to close the roof. Several hours after he’d parked the car outside the staff room, there was a fierce thunderstorm– which, as you’d expect, filled the car with rainwater. The car was later seen being tipped fully on its side to empty out the water, courtesy of four burly sixth formers working under the headteacher’s anxious supervision... Have amemorable true school tale or anecdote ofyour own? Share the details, andfindmore amusing stories, at schoolhumour.co.uk 09 teachwire.net/secondary N E WS | O C T / N O V