Catalyst
Creative Catalyst
The project focused on embedding good children’s rights-based practice in education and aimed to enable the realising of children’s rights for groups of learners who are most at risk of not having their rights met. This included learners in the following settings - Gaelic Medium, secure and residential care, interrupted learners, refugees / asylum seekers / displaced learners, and those in kinship care.
Three groups of refugees/asylum seekers worked with Animation Jam to make films about their own experiences of schools in Scotland. We listened to their hopes and dreams as they re-enacted key events in their lives and journeys.
Pupils were aged between 7 and 17, with the younger ones at different primary schools in Aberdeenshire. The secondary school group, in Peterhead, were all unaccompanied asylum seekers and met us outside of school in a support hub. We focussed on pupils communication of events in fun and engaging ways using mostly 2D drawn animation.
One of the primary schools, Peterhead Central, was so happy with the sessions that they booked in a second project with a different group of pupils.
