Lights, Camera, Action
Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Be the star of your own film. Form your own film company that will produce a short film.
You will start by generating ideas which will then develop into a story board. Record all the action onto video cameras and then finally use specialist software to edit and produce your very own 4 minute blockbuster.
Week 1
Genre - Generate ideas and Story Board - Allocate roles.
Week 2
Shot styles and effects - Begin Filming - Review Script
Week 3
Design - Archive Footage
Week 4
Second Takes - The Cutting Room floor
Week 5
Credits - Titles
Week 6
Production - Parent's Viewing
Skills
Story boarding, Directing, Film Editing, Camera Work

Shoot
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Interested in photography and ICT?
Capture photographs of natural, wonderful surroundings. You will have the chance to take photographs of interest and transform them instantly using computer software.
Can you tell a story using images alone? Learn how to compose different shots, use angles and levels and how varying the focus and depth of field can change the emphasis of a photograph.
What is the difference between a print and a watercolour? You can learn how to transform your images and present exhibition quality photographs.
We provide compact and SLR digital cameras but you are welcome to bring along your own digital camera.
Week 1
Know your way around a camera - Basic shots
Week 2
Manipulating and transforming photographs - have a digital make-over
Week 3
Landscape, Panoramic photographs and 360 degree shots
Week 4
Use of effects and combining photographs - go where ever you want to go
Week 5
Digital Image to Watercolour paintings
Skills
Visual Literacy, Camera Shots, Digital Manipulation and Transformation

I like to Move it Move it
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Make your photographs come to life and speak through animation
Decide what a character might say and how they would talk. Use photographs to produce comic strips.
Week 1
What is animation? Making inanimate objects talk, move and even wink.
Week 2
Talking landscapes and objects - have you ever wondered what objects or pets would say if they could talk?
Week 3
Conduct a virtual interview with anyone you want, dead or alive!
Week 4
Story telling through pictures, create a photo comic story of your own.
Week 5
Produce themed comic
Skills
Speaking and Listening, Visual Literacy, ICT - Crazy Talk and Comic Life

Hired or Fired
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Sir Alan Eat your heart out!
This experience is all about setting up your own sales team and exploring the 4 P's of business. Product, Price, Packaging and Promotion. During sessions you will be given a sales brief and you will have the opportunity to use all of your entrepreneurial skills to create a good business plan.
As part of a small business team, you will be finding out about the market for a new product, identifying a product, creating a sales campaign and promoting your ideas.
Week 1
Form sales team - Roles - Responsibilities
Week 2
Explore product, - customer research
Week 3
Explore packaging - design logo and packaging, slogans and by-lines
Week 4
Write Business Plan - pricing and sales forecasts
Week 5
Presentation of sales campaign - get hired or fired sales campaign
Skills
Market Research, Promotional Writing and Presentation Skills, Analysing Data, Costing and Profit Margins, Communication, Research and Design

There's no 'I' in Team
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Can you work in a team?
Team building consists of tasks, challenges and games that develop group cohesion, co-operation and communication. The longer term impact will include transferable skills and ways of extending new found qualities to everyday problems. The final message being; "if you always do the same thing; you always get the same result.
Week 1
Individual and paired challenges
Week 2
Communicate - 'It's not what you say, it's the way that you say it.'
Week 3
Appreciate - do more of what you do well.
Week 4
Thinking outside the box - think first: act second
Week 5
The final challenge - put your skills to the test
Skills
Team Building, Listening, Co-operation, Communication, Decision Making

Learn signing for the deaf
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Fancy learning a new skill?
Communicate to others and learn to sign. Cover basic greetings and finger spelling. Classes all begin by turning off your voice - possibly the quietest club running! In the final session create posters so that others can learn too.
Week 1
Names and finger spelling
Week 2
Meeting and greeting
Week 3
Family
Week 4
Food and transport
Week 5
Put it to the test - pass it on
Skills
British Sign Language, Communication through actions

Peer Mentoring
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Fancy having extra responsibility around the school?
Develop skills to be able to look after others. Try out new games and activities that could keep children entertained at break times and lunch times. Learn how to organise games and activities to allow others to participate.
Week 1
Setting the scene - Games and activities.
Week 2
Peer Mentoring Skills
Week 3
Games and activities
Week 4
Mini-games
Week 5
Leading a group
Skills
Communication, Listening, Leadership, Trust and Responsibility

Play it Again
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Learn what it takes to make an exciting and gripping story that keeps everyone's attention.
Develop your reading through novels and play scripts. Prepare short plays and performances. Listen to some interactive stories that get you out of your seats and active. Have a go yourself and develop a story of your own.
Week 1
Improvisation/ drama
Week 2
Interactive story telling
Week 3
Read play script - Allocate roles -Performance
Week 4
Develop own story
Week 5
Performance and Production
Skills
Reading, Drama and Role-Play, Story Telling

On Time
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Let's work together.
Get your homework handed in on time. Have the chance to complete your homework in a relaxing environment. Support and guidance from a qualified teacher is on hand if you need it.
Schools can engage PfS staff for 1-2-1 tuition
Week 1
Homework Club
Week 2
Homework Club
Week 3
Homework Club
Week 4
Homework Club
Week 5
Homework Club
Skills
Time Keeping, Meeting Deadlines, Achievement, Task Related

Film Crew
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
We will work with a team of pupils to create a film 'Our School'.
Providing all of the necessary equipment, we will work with a group of pupils to produce a short film about their school, or an aspect of their school. From initial concept to final DVD, we will support them through story boarding, filming and editing. Some filming may need to take place in school time or make use of archive footage gathered from the school which cannot be facilitated by PfS staff.
Week 1
Concept and Genre - Story Board - Allocate roles.
Week 2
Filming Skills - Begin Filming - Review Script
Week 3
Filming Skills - Design - Archive Footage
Week 4
Editing skills - Second Takes
Week 5
Editing Skills - Credits - Titles - Final Cut
Skills
Story boarding, Directing, Film Editing, Camera Work

Everybody Writes
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£300 For up to 15 Pupils, £20 For each extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Take part in a writing project
We will work with a team of pupils from your school to create a written product in which 'Everybody Writes'. This could include parents, grandparents and pupils. You could create a cookery book, collection of stories and poems or research about your local area.
Week 1
Brainstorm - Generate ideas - Allocate roles
Week 2
Publicity and planning materials - Examples
Week 3
Planning the day
Week 4
Running the project
Week 5
Production team - Press Release
Skills
Organisation and Planning, Time Management , Costing, Writing

Activities for Supporters of Any Club
5 Weeks x 90 minutes
£390 for up to 15 pupils, £26 per extra pupil to a maximum of 24
Who do you support?
A series of activities based around football clubs and players in which pupils get to discuss their favourite teams. Reading, writing and numeracy tasks from a supporters perspective .Suitable for Argyle supporters or fans of any other club, this includes a tour of Home Park with transport provided.
Week 1
Football Stats - Statistically which is the best team - A numeracy challenge
Week 2
In the News - Rumours and Reality. - reading between the lines
Week 3
Home Park Stadium Tour - transport provided
Week 4
Managers' question time -who would you choose- speaking & listening debate
Week 5
Player profiles - from Pele to Messi - Write the profile
Skills
Organisation and Planning, Time Management , Costing, Writing