Rachel Mair from Ambleside Primary School, Nottingham, and fellow teacher Max Speed feature online in the first of a new series to share good classroom practice.
Ms Mair told Nursery World she noticed that parents were always drawn to photo displays in the classroom. 'We started using children's photos and making photo stories with captions, and using film became an extension of this.'
She said film was used in a number of ways, for example to record particular projects. For last spring's topic on Africa the children were filmed on 'safari' looking for animals, and 'the children are still talking about it now, instead of it being a fleeting experience.'
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