Introduction

Northern Ireland Screen Education strategy, to embed the use of moving image and related digital technologies across the formal and non-formal curriculum in Northern Ireland, was first set out in A Wider Literacy, published in 2004.  The document is available to download on this page.

Produced by Northern Ireland Screen’s Education Policy Working Group (EPWG), (see media download and related links) whose members come from the education sector, film exhibition, broadcasting and a range of government departments and agencies, the document remains the blueprint for the vision for moving image education: to harness new ways of learning for all our young people, to provide them with the knowledge and skills they need for life and the workplace, so that they can become valued contributors to society.

Northern Ireland Screen ensures implementation of the strategy through focused interventions:

• The Creative Learning Centres work closely with schools in developing capacity in young people and teachers in using new media technologies;
• The Creative Learning in the Digital Age (CLDA) pilot project introduced the use of digital moving image archive material in the study of history at Key Stage III (ages 11-14. Such was the success of the pilot, that Phase 2 extended the use of moving image resources to a new qualification – Moving Image Arts (MIA) A-level. 
• FilmClub enables schools participating in the Extended Schools Programme to set up their own after school film clubs.

Northern Ireland Screen Education works with many UK-wide organizations and bodies in the national policy arena, several of which offer courses and training. For further details see related links opposite.