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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“The creative element of the project meant their writing was fantastic. It was great to see the more reluctant writers take ownership of the filming and how that spurred them on to improve their writing so they could make as impressive a trailer as possible. ”

Mohammed Haji,
Copenhagen 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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