This resource, supported by The Refugee Council, contains guides and activities for a selection of feature films for students aged 5-19 to consider and investigate the hardships and resiliance of refugees around the globe, the contribution of refugees in the UK and why people have and continue to seek asylum. To start your free Into Film Club find out more at www.intofilm.org Did you find this resource useful? If so, please leave a star rating, this will help other teachers to find it.

Designed to be used with Disney Pixar Shorts Volume 1, this resource, aimed at primary pupils, provides simple-to-use activities that are a fun way to start a film club. The activities allow learners to explore key themes of empathy, friendship, tolerance and emotional health, while developing their literacy skills. Disney Pixar Shorts Volume 1 and other Pixar films are available to stream for free on Into Film + https://www.intofilm.org/films/19630

A film guide that looks at Blackfish (2013), exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion.

A film guide that looks at Coco (2017), exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion. This film is now available to stream for free on Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/19020

A film guide that looks at Up (2009), exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion. This film is now free to stream on Into Film+ https://www.intofilm.org/films/16056

A film guide that looks at Wall-E (2008), exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion.

With the holidays approaching, it’s the perfect time to celebrate multiculturalism and explore the different types of religious and cultural celebrations from around the world, using our new assembly resource. This resource is for teachers to use in assembly and classroom scenarios with students aged 9 to 14. There are a number of extension activities where the themes within the films can be explored further. The themes covered include multiculturalism and celebrations around the world that young people can experience. This assembly uses film clips to explore the reasons for a variety of cultural celebrations, and how young people in films deal with celebrations linked to religious and cultural rites of passage. Download the accompanying Cultural perspectives assembly PowerPoint presentation at the following link: https://www.intofilm.org/resources/2 For information on how to start an Into Film club and rent DVDs for free, please visit www.intofilm.org/clubs

The Into Film Storymaker: The Gruffalo Edition is a literacy-focused app which supports storytelling in lower primary school settings. It features key scenes from The Gruffalo film and is supported by an extensive cross-curricular teaching resource. Pupils are able to record their own voices using existing or new narrative and dialogue, and choose a suitable soundtrack and sound effects. Download the teachers' notes, supporting PowerPoint presentation and curriculum links, then head to www.intofilm.org/gruffalo-storymaker for information about how to download the app. 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.

A film guide that looks at Ponyo (2008), exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion.

This immersive, exciting and varied resource will take young people on a quest to become Chopstick Warriors by teaching them about the history and handling of chopsticks. They will teach others and perform a range of challenges to perfect the art of the chopstick, then battle other competitors in school, culminating in The Rice Challenge, with the intention of being crowned Chopstick Master. Teachers are provided with a fun downloadable ‘Chopstick Challenge' resource pack that includes how to create and run a Chopstick League within their school. This is an easy to use end of term resource designed to bring the school community together with an engaging and challenging project to help celebrate the end of the school year. The DVD is on general release from July 11th 2016. The accompanying Kung Fu Panda 3 PowerPoint presentation including embedded clips can be downloaded from the Into Film website: https://www.intofilm.org/kung-fu-panda-3 Look out for the Chopstick Challenge competition coming soon! Check the Into Film Twitter page for more info.

This Into Film resource, designed to be used across third and fourth level in Scotland, explores a range of issues and curriculum areas through the film, Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle. It has been created in partnership with Stòrlann Nàiseanta na Gàidhlig, the agency charged with co-ordinating the production and distribution of Gaelic educational resources throughout Scotland. These teachers' notes should be used in conjunction with the PowerPoint presentation found at http://www.intofilm.org/seachd-gaelic-resource. To find out more about Into Film and start a film club visit: www.intofilm.org.

A film guide that looks at Your Name (2016), exploring its key topics and themes through informal discussion.

This resource looks at what happens during a royal coronation and is supported by a film of Queen Elizabeth II’s coronation. Learners will have the opportunity to consider how people across the U.K celebrated the coronation in 1953 using the archive film on the Into Film website. This resource is an ideal short activity for young people to discuss the recent coronation of King Charles III on the 6th May 2023.