Finding our voice – A Story of Success for Boys - transcript
Text on screen: Finding our voice – A Story of Success for Boys.
[Child and father seated in school library cuts to classroom scenes].
Father: Learning has to be fun because at this age it's difficult to realise why we're learning.
[Two women facing the camera cuts to classroom scenes and then back to them].
Woman 1: Boys, they do as much as they have to.
Woman 2: The bare minimum.
Woman 1: That's it
Woman 2: to get by.
Woman 1: But I think in something like this they put 100 percent in.
Woman2 (nodding): Yup.
Woman 1: Absolutely.
[Classroom scene cuts to student talking to the camera].
Student: Yeah it was hard but, I learnt to work together. Yeah, I'm pretty shy, I don't do that stuff.
[Student seated with mother in school library speaking to camera then cuts to classroom scene].
Student: I wasn't confident about my drawing. I like drawing but I wasn't good at it so, this helped me a lot and that helped me with my creativity.
[Two women seated together facing the camera].
Woman 2: I've never seen him so engaged and wanting to do writing, and so excited about doing something.
[Scene of student receiving a certificate].
Yes, he is very proud of his achievement.
[Teacher speaking to camera cuts to classroom scenes].
Teacher: It certainly changed my teaching practice. I avoid creative writing with these guys because it's not something that they seem to show any interest in, and interestingly enough, every group, just went out there crazy creative made-up stories and I thought that was fantastic.
[Two teachers facing the camera cuts to a classroom scene].
Teacher 2: So I think it can help, that reluctant writer to actually put words down and to actually create something.
[Student facing camera].
Student: Something we all could relate to.
[Student seated with mother facing the camera cuts to classroom scene].
Student: It was so different and so good in so many ways. I think everybody loved it actually.
[Student speaking to the camera].
Student: Yeah I had a lot of fun.
[Young student talking cuts to classroom scene with another young student and a teacher engaged in a task].
Young student: It's been really helpful, and it's really taught me a lot.
[Two teachers sit together facing the camera cuts to a scene of children seated with their hands up].
Teacher 1: So you could see it's a really good way to zap up those key competencies.
[Two women seated together].
Woman 1: It just opens the doors for them I think.
[Teacher voice over the scene of an assembly where students’ stories are being shared on a big screen].
Teacher voice: The results are fantastic absolutely fantastic.
[Mother embraces child sitting next to her and chuckles].
Mother: I'm very proud of him.
[Screen moves through a sequence of three pages of animation and text].
Text on screen:
The five Key Competencies – Thinking, Using language, symbols, and text, Relating to others, Managing self, Participating and contributing.
The key to learning in every area.
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