What is School of Life- expanded?
‘School of Life-expanded’ is a unique cultural programme for school children and teenagers that combines appropriate short films with educational workshops. School of Life-expanded introduces students to films from Britain and Ireland and aims to spark students’ curiosity and excitement about the world around them, whilst helping them to better understand the world they live in.
Our concept:
We offer three short film programmes for different age groups and English skills and workshop for each programme. The duration of each programme plus workshop is 90 minutes. Teachers can book the programmes on this website and we will send one of our teachers to the school to hold the screening and workshop in the classroom. All films will be screened from DVD and our teachers will provide the workshop material and handouts.
Our Goals:
The films chosen for the School of Life-expanded programmes enable students to take a closer look at everyday life in British and Irish culture. For many, this will be their first experience of British and Irish culture outside of their formal language lessons. The workshops integrate the socially relevant topics depicted in the films into the subsequent discussions. All films are in the English language and are tailored to the appropriate age groups of the children and their language abilities. School of Life workshops make British and Irish culture more accessible to the students of Berlin, whilst simultaneously enabling students to discuss issues and experiences that are universal to all young people.