Making their own films helps young children to develop a wealth of skills, as Melanie Defries hears.

Budding actors, directors and writers from primary schools in Peterborough are hoping to be rewarded with the local equivalent of an Oscar for their film-making skills at an award ceremony next month.

The Peterborough Children's Film Awards, which have been taking place annually for more than four years, have proved so popular with many primary schools in Peterborough that producing work to enter for the awards has become a staple part of their curriculum.

To enter the awards, children from reception year upwards have been putting their creative energies into producing films of up to three minutes long. At Gunthorpe primary school, two groups of children from reception have made films.

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