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Title: THESE ARE OUR CHILDREN: Activity, Discovery and Learning in Edinburgh Primary Schools

Reference number: 3085

Date: 1964c - 1965c

Director: d. Henry Cooper

Sponsor: Edinburgh Education Committee

Production company: Campbell Harper Films

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 18 mins

Description: Review of experimental teaching techniques in use in Edinburgh Primary Schools - reading library, Cuisenaire rods, elementary science, introduction to French.

Teaching notes.
File containing correspondence, scripts etc.

Credits: p. Alan Harper
m. performed by Edinburgh Primary Schools Orchestra
comm. s. Bryden Murdoch
camera Iain Kennedy, Brian Easton, Mark Littlewood
advisers Edinburgh Education Department
acknowledgements

Shotlist: Credits (0.08) Children playing and doing P.E. in playground (0.39) Ints playing in classroom (0.50) doing written classwork 91.10) Gvs of children using Cuisenaire rods as a way of learning to count v/o gives an explanation of this method (4.30) Practical work, learning about measures (5.11) C/u of wall display of children's artwork (5.34) In the school library (5.49) Demonstration of the SRA reading aid whilst v/o explains its purpose and scope (7.38) Gvs of children reading in their library (8.13) In the classroom, learning about shapes (9.52) The class pet - a hamster (10.03) Basic science projects (11.04) The class weather station (11.18) With the penguins in Edinburgh Zoo (12.00) Art and craft classes (13.30) The school orchestra (14.08)Learning French with the aid of a magnetic tape recorder, slides and models (15.90) Gvs various children in class (17.13) ecs (18.00)