Students from three primary schools in Cork have been announced as winners at the 20th annual F\u00cdS Film Awards.<\/p>\n
The awards ceremony, held on Thursday at Dublin City University, saw students from Dungourney National School, Shanbally National School, and Kilgarriffe National School, honoured across three categories for their film projects.<\/p>\n
The Cork students were among 1,500 entrants from across Ireland, and were recognised for showcasing an exceptional standard of storytelling, technical skill and imagination through filmmaking.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s event, hosted by RT\u00c9\u2019s Sin\u00e9ad Kennedy and attended by the Minister for Education and Youth, Hildegard Naughton, marked two decades of the F\u00cdS Film Project, and saw entrants awarded across 24 categories including acting, costume design, originality, storytelling and technical achievement.<\/p>\n
Students from Dungourney National School received the Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking \u2013 Drama award for their film, DeValera\u2019s Response; students from Shanbally National School, received the Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking \u2013 Acting award for their piece, The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln; and students from Kilgarriffe National School received the Outstanding Achievement in Filmmaking for Curriculum Relevance (Geography) award for their project, Our Adventure Boat \u2013 Adventure to Egypt.<\/p>\n
Ms Naughton said the annual awards showcase the \u201cpowerful role that creativity, collaboration and innovation play in teaching and learning across our primary schools\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs curriculum reform continues to support more flexible, student-centred approaches to education, it is important that we recognise and nurture the diverse talents, interests and strengths of young people, including those that extend beyond traditional academic pathways,\u201d said Ms Naughton.<\/p>\n
\n \u201cInitiatives such as F\u00cdS reflect key curriculum priorities by promoting creativity, critical thinking, communication, digital literacy and teamwork, while enabling pupils to express their ideas in meaningful and engaging ways.\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThese experiences support wellbeing, inclusion and the development of transferable skills that prepare students for lifelong learning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI warmly congratulate all of the students, teachers and school communities involved, and I commend the strong partnerships that continue to support creative learning within our education system.\u201d President of the Institute for Art, Design + Technology (IADT), David Smith, said the F\u00cdS Film Awards have demonstrated the \u201cpower of creativity in education\u201d for the last 20 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt IADT, we are proud to support a project that gives young people the confidence to explore ideas, develop digital skills and tell meaningful stories through film,\u201d said Mr Smith.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeing pupils from schools across Ireland celebrated on a national stage is a testament to the impact of this programme.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students from three primary schools in Cork have been announced as winners at the 20th annual F\u00cdS Film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[41434,79,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-297256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cork-education","tag-cork-news","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}