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.
What is LitFilmFest?
We create amazing literacy resources so you don't have to! Here's how to get started:
Classroom projects
View all classroom projectsWriting with real purpose...
View more...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.
Find out more“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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