Access over 300 hours of projects and resources from only £4.50/month - view details

Writing with Purpose

Set your literacy alight using our award winning classroom resources. LitFilmFest helps teachers accelerate pupil progress 3.75x, with a focus on writing about real issues for a real audience.

Access over 300 hours of projects and resources from only £4.50/month - view details

What is LitFilmFest?

We create amazing literacy resources so you don't have to! Here's how to get started:

  • Join LitFilmFest and access a literacy resource matched to the National Curriculum
  • Download the resources and teach, improving writing progress and increasing pupil engagement by making simple videos
  • Share your literacy with your community and with us to give writing purpose

Classroom projects

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Kitchen Kid
Pupil Parliament
Reading Rocks Reviews KS1-2
Ancient Sports Academy: Greeks
Breathe KS2

Writing with real purpose...

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Tubbenden Primary wrote their own 'Breathe' meditations

Oxley Park used the 'Change It' project to get 100k signatures at bit.ly/strawssuck

Chiltern Primary wrote poetry using the 'Why I Play' project

Host your own LitFilmFest event

Sharing children’s completed writing is a huge part of what gives their learning purpose.

We can help you host a film festival to celebrate your pupils’ work.

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“What surprised me more than anything was how much they wrote. The act of making a short video really motivated them to work hard on their writing and sentence level work rather than me having to push them as I usually do. ”

Jane Brandon,
St George’s International Primary School

The research behind LitFilmFest

In a four month research study supported by the UCL Institute of Education, we worked with 200 KS2 students across three schools to measure the efficacy of our approach.

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