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This
site was produced by children at Stoke Newington School
for children all around the world.
It is the result
of a project run at the school, funded by Creative Partnerships
London East. The school worked with leading media production
company Somethin’ Else to develop and run a project
that would involve pupils across a range of subjects
and year groups and would leave a lasting legacy at
the school.
The theme for Rights2Rights,
evolved from a three-day whole-school project on Make
Poverty History, which ran in the summer of 2005. Out
of this experience came the theme of Rights and Responsibilities,
which offered scope for individual departments to meet
their curriculum goals as well as encouraging vision
and creativity from students and teachers around three
key areas – respect for themselves, respect for
others and respect for the environment.
Much of the inspiration
for the project came from materials produced by Unicef
and based on the United Nations Convention on the Rights
of the Child, which spells out the basic human rights
that children everywhere should be entitled to.
There was a theme,
a creative partnership, a list of things to achieve
but still no one knew what the outcome would be - until
a meeting of project leaders from the school and the
company directors from Somethin’ Else came up with
a solution:
A web site, designed
by students with content from across year groups and
subjects on the theme of Rights and Responsibilities
It was perfect!
The BTEC ICT students in Anna Gluckstein’s Year
10 class were going to get a real brief to work on –
not a pretend one. The best idea would then be turned
into a real site with its own URL.
The model provided
a framework in which 12 other departments could get
involved as much or as little as they felt they could.
Somethin' Else
worked with ICT, Media and Humanities as key departments
but also Art, Graphics and Music. They shared their
expertise and helped them create the website and multimedia
content.
Other departments
worked with the Media Arts team to develop ways of being
involving their subject and had inhouse support from
Alexis Watts, Deepshikha Sathyanarayanan, Howard Davis
as well as Highwire, in the case of the Maths Department.
The full list
of departments involved and their projects:
- Art – Animations
for Mobiles
- Dance – Dance
For Camera
- English – Cartoons
- Graphics – Animation
For Mobiles
- Humanities – Radio
- Lifeskills – Video
- Maths – Video
- Music – Ringtones
for Mobiles
- Science - Web
Pages
- Spanish – Music
- Textiles – Fashion
The Vision for
the Future
The Rights2Rights
website will be maintained for a minimum of two years,
meaning fresh content can be added as and when it is
produced by our students.
In addition, the
model will be used again in 2006/7 for a brand new web-based
project with a different theme. The school will work
in collaboration with Somethin’ Else to develop
the model still further and provide exciting learning
experiences for everyone.
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