Year six students from Fairview Primary School, Wigmore have put together a film based on footage from the 1970s.

The children created a 19 minute documentary which premiered on Tuesday 28.

The documentary produced by Fairview Primary School

Four canisters of cine film of residential trips to Belgium and the Isle of White were given to the school in 2018.

Teachers worked with Screen Archive Southeast to digitise the footage.

Pupils then tracked down and carried out interviews with ex–pupils, edited footage and created the final product.

Matilda Gooding, 10 said: "I liked doing the editing because it was quite nice to see how it went from being just clips of the trips to being a whole film.

She continued: "It was really interesting because we could imagine what it was like and actually see the footage and hear the stories of the people experiencing it."

Robin Halls, Year 5 teacher and project co-ordinator said: "I run a film club at the school which is part of an initiative to encourage children to watch and make films.

"When we got the cine film we realised we could have a go at making a documentary film, which we have never done before.

"The children have been absolutely brilliant, they came up with all the interview questions and recorded them.

"They were particularly good at using the editing software, actually very good.

He added: "It was really good to see the current pupils and the ex pupils interact with each other, they took one or two of them on a tour of the school and showed them what it used to be like."

Jane King, Screen Archive Southeast said: "This project is a wonderful opportunity for us to bring archive film to younger audiences and also to enable the pupils to see what their school looked like over 40 years ago.

"Through this project the pupils have been able to connect with local residents, past pupils and the wider local community.

"We hope to be able to digitise other films that have come to light through this project and make them freely available to the public to view."

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