My School in Focus: A Project to Celebrate the UK's first ever National Photography Month

Whilst we are taking more pictures than at any other time, the fleeting nature of digital images means we are printing or keeping fewer of these important documents. National Photography Month aims to encourage the nation to get more involved in photography, and to explore new ways to capture and keep life's most important moments.

Colliers Green Focus has produced a resource booklet to encourage schools to get involved in National Photography Month in June 2012, using photograhy to engage with key concepts in geography including Sense of Place. It presents ideas for a summer term project where students document the school environment using photography, preserving a moment in time for future generations. As well as providing material for an exhibition within the school, the images can be used creatively in the long-term: to showcase the school an open days and parents' evenings, and in printed materials such as year books and praise postcards.

My School in Focus suggests ways of getting students to see beyond the obvious and familiar, and re-appraise their school environment.

Images taken as part of your project can be entered into the Colliers Green Focus Mobile photography competition. Our free INSET sessions on Using Photography in the Geography Curriculum are open to all schools and offer additional practical guidance.

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