Robert, year 8
Description
What's it like being on the receiving end of the education system? What's it like being in Year 8, when progress can dip? This revealing series follows four Year 8 children, from Hove Park School in Sussex, offering snapshots of their perceptions and experience of school. The programmes interweaves intimate classroom footage with frank video diary recorded by the children at home.Robert's story reveals a student who can have difficulties with his written work in English, yet once his imagination is excited, for example in drama, he can't put his pen down. Robert loves break and PE, running around with his mates and having fun, but reveals a growing anxiety about his progress at the school, and what Year 9 will bring.
Runtime
28 min
Series
Subjects
Geography
Genre
Date of Publication
2006
Database
Alexander Street
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