Celebrate Roald Dahl Day (13th September) with a resource exploring some of the author's best stories on film. The Roald Dahl on Film PDF contains teachers' notes, activity outlines, film information and worksheets for Primary pupils across England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. It has been designed to be accompanied by the PowerPoint presentation, which features film clips from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and more. An interactive minibeasts quiz to complement the James and the Giant Peach section can also be downloaded here. Related content can be found at www.intofilm.org/roald-dahl To start your free Into Film Club visit www.intofilm.org/clubs Did you find this resource useful? Leaving a star rating will help other teachers to find it.

We have produced this new resource on the film Around the World in 80 Days to complement the new Welsh National Literacy Framework for Primary schools, aimed a developing oracy, reading, and writing across the curriculum. Developed in conjunction with a leading literacy practitioner and the Welsh Government, these bilingual resources aim to empower teachers to increase literacy through film.

This educational resource develops literacy skills by exploring how stories are told through film. Activities cover sound, setting, character, camera, colour and story, allowing pupils to develop skills of empathy and critical analysis by using film as a text. The short film used in this resource is Miss Todd from the Into Film Shorts: Primary 2014 Collection available exclusively from Into Film. Use the activities in this teachers’ pack and the supporting Literacy through film: Miss Todd PowerPoint presentation. You can work through the subsequent activities in order, or cherry-pick those that suit your class and your schedule.

This resource is one of those created as part of Into Film’s ScreenWorks programme to demystify the world of screen careers to young people aged 14 to 19 across Northern Ireland and the UK. Professional film journalist, editor and author Helen O’Hara has collaborated with us to summarise what the role entails, key skills needed and routes into the job. There is also a practical film journalism activity that learners can complete as a taster into the job role. ScreenWorks is a screen industry work experience scheme offering unparalleled opportunities for young people aged 14-14 to learn about careers across Film, TV, Animation, Gaming and Visual Effects. To find out more, or to apply for the programme, visit the Into Film website.

Careers in Film - Secondary introduces students aged 11 to 16 to a range of potential careers in the film industry through a variety of learning activities, with cross-curricular links to STEAM subjects and a variety of skills. It has been created to respond to the need for new, homegrown talent by providing an opportunity for students to explore how they might see themselves as part of the industry. By watching clips and interviews, researching and trying out well-known and unfamiliar roles in the sector, learners can begin to understand the skills they are already developing across the curriculum that could one day translate to fulfilling careers. This comprehensive resource has been produced by Into Film in partnership with BAFTA, Creative Skillset, The Production Guild, Film Distributors' Association, The Industry Trust and UK Cinema Association. All educators should download the PPT and Educators' Notes, and whichever Student Workbook and Skills Audit PDFs are suitable for their cohort (11-14 or 14-16). Exclusive industry interviews and masterclasses are available to watch at www.intofilm.org/careers-secondary To start your free Into Film club visit www.intofilm.org/clubs Did you find this resource useful? Leaving a star rating will help other teachers to find it.

This resource helps students explore character, meaning & interpretation through clips from the 1954 film adaptation of the play and short extracts from the 1993 National Theatre production, courtesy of the V&A. This PDF should be used with an accompanying Power Point presentation. These activities are broadly suitable for 11-18 English, drama and related subjects and particularly helpful in supporting study of the play for GCSE English literature. For more information about Into Film and help setting up your free film club, visit www.intofilm.org/clubs

Take your pupils on a summer adventure with Earth to Echo – a creative way for supporting the primary to secondary transition. The resource aims to capture the memories and the Lessons and Classroom Activities encourage pupils to value their friendships through scrapbooking, school year books and filmmaking activities! To receive your physical competition pack and entry forms, please register at http://www.nationalschoolspartnership.com/echo.php. Find out more about Into Film and start a film club in your school for free at: www.intofilm.org

This resource is specially created for our Reel to Real education project with the learning department at the V&A Museum. This education resource is designed to work in conjunction with the accompanying PowerPoint. These activities are designed for English, drama and related subjects at ages 11-18. They are particularly suitable for supporting the study of the play Macbeth for English and English literature studies by exploring character, meaning and interpretation. It comprises of a set of comprehensive teachers’ notes with worksheets for use in the classroom and the accompanying Reel to Real: Adapting Macbeth Throne of Blood PowerPoint presentation which includes clips from clips from Kurosawa’s film adaptation of the play in Throne of Blood which transports the action from the Scottish highlands of the original play to feudal medieval Japan and extracts from a recording of the 2013 Trafalgar Studios production of Macbeth, courtesy of the National Video Archive of Performance (NVAP) at the V&A Museum. The DVD is available to order for free on the Into Film website at https://www.intofilm.org/films Did you find this resource useful? Leaving a star rating can help other teachers to find it. Not yet Into Film? Start your free Into Film Club at www.intofilm.org/clubs

This resource contains adaptable activity ideas and outlines to support teaching and learning focussed on film score and soundtrack analysis, music appreciation and creating soundtracks for film and moving image. Activities focus on the examples of Meet Me in St Louis, 633 Squadron, Jaws, West Side Story and Fantasia. A supporting PowerPoint containing relevant film clips is available at www.intofilm.org/resources/68. Time codes are provided throughout, so that the resource can be used with your own copies of the films, and activities can easily be applied to films of your choice. Did you find this resource useful? Leaving a star rating can help other teachers to find it. Not yet Into Film? Start your free Into Film Club at www.intofilm.org

From classic adaptations of Shakespeare plays such as Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth to re-contextualised interpretations like 10 Things I Hate About You and The Lion King, the resource examines not only Shakespeare as a writer, but also as a storyteller and his work as performance pieces, not just literature. For use with students aged 14 to 16, this resource is designed to enhance the teaching of Shakespeare’s plays at GCSE level by encouraging students to think critically about a variety of film adaptations and each director’s interpretation of the original play as a performance piece. The films were compiled in response English teachers’ preferences and vary greatly in terms of their country of origin and approach to the original Shakespeare play. Did you find this resource useful? Leaving a star rating can help other teachers to find it. Not yet Into Film? Start your free Into Film Club at www.intofilm.org/clubs

BroZone is getting back together, and it’s time for the reunion tour! This cross-curricular activity pack challenges your class to get hands-on with a range of activities framed around coordinating a reunion tour for BroZone, the boyband Branch and his long-lost brothers are part of in DreamWorks’ new film Trolls Band Together. Kicking off the sequence, your class will get out of their seats to learn some of the film’s key dance moves. Learners will have the chance to try choreographing a sequence using these new dance moves and even add in some signature moves of their own! The Stage Design activity asks learners to plan, design and make a model of the stage for the tour, including a new BroZone logo for band merchandise. The tour needs to run smoothly, and this is where the Tour Times task comes in. Pupils will be given a series of time based problems to solve using the gig dates and locations as a stimulus for the maths outcomes, demonstrating the real-world importance of learning about telling the time and calculating duration. The home learning activity gives insight into writing to inform, as learners will be asked to create a newspaper front page that includes key information about the BroZone reunion tour. Finally, your class is invited to enter our Trolls Reunion Tour competition for a chance to win a karaoke machine and film merchandise bundles. These flexible challenges will immerse young people in a range of curriculum areas and help develop their team building skills. You can cherry-pick the activities, assign different activities to groups or even teach the sequence over a series of sessions.

Into Film has partnered with the National Association for Teaching English (NATE) to produce a new resource centred around Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, and the 1999 film adaptation starring Patrick Stewart as Ebeneezer Scrooge. The resource also contains generic teaching approaches that can be applied across all 19th century texts. Download the the accompanying PowerPoints on the Into Film website from this link www.intofilm.org/19th-century-novel Start a free film club and order the films to watch in your classroom today at www.intofilm.org/clubs.

Are your learners ready to discover the impossible? This resource, brought to you by Into Film and Disney to celebrate the upcoming release of the new animated adventure Strange World, will encourage learners to embody the attitude of an explorer as they are immersed in a whole new environment full of mystery and impossibility. The two lesson sequence encompasses geography, English, art and design and science with opportunities to develop creative writing skills, speaking and listening, mapping skills and identifying environmental features. The learning opportunities encourage pupils to imagine themselves as explorers of the fantastical setting of Disney’s Strange World and to document their exploration through maps, diary entries and observations of the unusual creatures that inhabit this place.

This resource focuses on films adapted from or inspired by Shakespeare, including She's the Man (2006), 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and adaptations of Much Ado About Nothing. The resource provides activity outlines to support students to explore the conventions of romantic comedies, working critically with film and creating their own silent films within the genre. This resource was written by a Teach First teacher, for the BFI's Shakespeare on Film season, www.bfi.org.uk/shakespeare-on-film and features silent Shakespeare adaptations of Twelfth Night (1911) and Taming of the Shrew (1923) from BFI Player and a stimulating BFI interview with screenwriter Tess Morris on 'How to write a romcom'. Connection to the internet is required to play some of the videos. Did you find this resource useful? If so, leave a star rating so that other teachers can find it. Not yet Into Film? Start your free Into Film Club at www.intofilm.org/clubs

The first of the Shaun the Sheep Green Light to Opening Night films is accompanied by this resource that helps young people to understand the importance of story telling in films. Use the Teachers’ Notes along side the short film where Young Reporter Jess visits Aardman Animations to find out about filmmaking and why Shaun is such a popular character. The film and accompanying Shaun the Sheep The Movie - Starting Your Story PowerPoint presentation to use in your classroom available on the Into Film website: https://www.intofilm.org/resources/11 This film is now available to stream free at Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/18592

No matter what you teach, Into Film’s Story Builder: Games is a fun and meaningful way for students to research or consolidate their curricular learning. It supports cross-curricular literacy while its iterative design approach develops thinking skills and personal capabilities. The flexible nature of Story Builder: Games makes it suitable for a curricular focus or the basis of an exciting new extra-curricular club. Whether designing a chemical reaction puzzle game or a tourism-boosting strategy game, the potential is endless! Visit the Into Film website to download the Story Builder: Games and to learn more about our games on the Into Film Games hub.

Created by professional filmmakers, this comprehensive guide takes teachers and their pupils through the skills, equipment and processes involved in making a simple film, covering every aspect from pre-production and storyboarding, to filming, sound, lighting, editing, post-production and how to get your film seen. Also included are tips on getting started, information about different filmmaking roles, terms and techniques, and a menu of ideas for linking filmmaking to literacy and the curriculum. For information on how to start a free Into Film club please visit https://www.intofilm.org/clubs Or go to https://www.intofilm.org/resources to view more of our curriculum focused resources.

Developed in partnership with ChildNet, these resources use films including Harriet the Spy and The Thief Lord to illustrate points about internet safety, and are full of information, safety tips and activities to help better acquaint pupils with staying safe online and advice on how to better protect themselves on the web. A version of the PowerPoint with subtitled videos is available on the Into Film website: https://www.intofilm.org/resources/35 For information on how to start a free Into Film club please visit https://www.intofilm.org/clubs Or go to https://www.intofilm.org/resources to view more of our curriculum focused resources. Mae’r gwaith Bod yn Ddiogel Ar-lein yn adnodd addysgiadol sydd wedi ei greu gan Into Film mewn partneriaeth gyda Chilnet International i gefnogi Diwrnod Diogel y We. Mae’r adnodd yn defnyddio’r ffilmiau Harriet the Spy aThe Thief Lord i danio dychymyg disgyblion a thrafod negeseuon pwysig, gan roi wybodaeth ar sut i fod yn ddinasyddion diogel mewn byd digidol cynyddol. Yn yr adnodd yma, mi fydd y disgyblion yn dysgu am y brif themau: • Preifatrwydd a rhannu diogelwch • Bod yn ddinasyddion digidol diogel yn trafod gwaith 3C Childnet, Cynnwys, Cyswllt a Masnacheiddio

Celebrate themes of acceptance and inclusivity through this showstopping resource inspired by the new film adaptation of the musical Cats. Cats transforms Andrew Lloyd Webber’s record-shattering stage musical into the must-see cinema event of the year. This PSHE-led learning sequence, suitable for use with learners aged 7 to 14, uses cross-curricula activities (literacy, drama, maths and design and technology) to build towards pupils recognising and celebrating your school’s successes as an inclusive and accepting community. Through this resource, pupils will be encouraged to evaluate the importance of accepting others and forming their own opinions, as well as to consider the significance of playing their own part in facilitating an inclusive learning community. Young people will be invited to create, explore and share imaginative writing, performances and much more! Each lesson is carefully structured with teachers in mind and features pupil-friendly activity sheets and engaging homework tasks. All supporting materials include curriculum outcomes suitable for all nations and regions. This film is available to stream free on Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/19497

A film guide that looks at The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), a coming-of-age story which beautifully captures the joys and heartbreaks of growing up. This guide is useful for exploring subjects including PSHE Education, Psychology and English in addition to highlighting topics surrounding mental health, friendships, growing up, books and plays, and school.