Becoming Outstanding is an interactive learning experience based on the TV series From Good To Outstanding, which gives teachers the opportunity to explore what outstanding teaching and learning looks like, and assess themselves against seven key features.

Visit the website for Becoming Outstanding Primary or Secondary

Online – Documentary, 2011 ongoing

The CLPE – the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education – is creating an on-line library of videos featuring some of the country’s best known Children’s poets and writers; aiming to engage school children. Big Heart has been filming readings and interviews with these legends.- In early 2011 we filmed with poets Michael Rosen, James Berry, Jackie Kay and Roger McGough, engagements with Grace Nichols and John Agard have followed – looking forward to the next group!
+ www.clpe.co.uk

Big Heart has been a key part of the Cape Farewell initiative since its inception in 2003, when the company was chosen to document the maiden voyage of the ‘cultural response to climate change’. A voyage which took physical form in the shape of the 100 foot Dutch schooner the Noorderlicht’s journey to the Svalbard archipelago. Crewed by a team of artists, scientists and journalists the expedition aimed to inaugurate an integrated assessment of how our lifestyle affected the distant but crucial ecosystem of the Arctic and what could be done to raise awareness and change our practices.

Since that first expedition the project has gone from strength to strength with participants as high profile as Ian McEwan and Antony Gormley taking part in more recent voyages (an experience McEwan used as the basis for his recent book Solar.) Big Heart has become particularly involved with the initiative’s focus on youth and education, which came to the fore during the 2007 and 2008 expeditions that brought kids from diverse backgrounds to see the effects of climate change first hand and report back to their contemporaries. Producing programmes, interactive media and literature that linked to both the science and arts curriculum Big Heart spearheaded Cape Farewell‘s education initiatives, which continue today with the Speak Green project.

www.capefarewell.com

An animated short created to promote the Gridclub site on primetime Channel 4. it features a lighting tour through the online Gridclub world by characters Fizz, Buzz, Shelley and Boris. Voiced by June Sarpong of T4.

www.gridclub.com

When singer-songwriter Ben Okafor returns to Nigeria to carry out a last filial duty, he unearths painful memories from his childhood. Based on true events, this is the story of Ben’s experiences as a child soldier and refugee during the Biafran War of independence. Written by Justin Butcher and Ben Okafor; directed by Richard Shannon; narrated by Ben Okafor.

‘Recorder Magic Interactive’ is an interactive CD ROM based version of A&C Black’s best selling title ‘Recorder Magic’ the CD ROM makes good use of MIDI and Flash to create an innovative music teaching tool for use by whole classes, small groups and individuals.

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Designed for 9-13s to access independently, BOOKBOX provides unique access to the UK’s foremost children’s authors, poets and illustrators.

Special features of the site include: ‘Hear Me See Me’ – streaming video interviews with leading authors (including Philip Pullman, Anthony Horowitz and Jacqueline Wilson); ‘Writer’s Toolkit’  - hints and tips about writing from featured authors; and a suite of interactive reading and writing games.

www.channel4learning.com/sites/bookbox