Project 6: Chained Christmas Story (All groups) End of first term 2014-15

Spectacular! That's the only way we can describe the outcome of this project which was presented at the Christmas concert.


The whole school, students and teachers, was involved in the project which was done in the following order:

1. Third year students kicked off the story and set the pace. Each further group of students added a piece of the story to the piece done by the group before. But none of them knew exactly what had happened before, just a brief summary of the story line. 
2. Once the story had been "invented", in cooperative groups, students drew the characters and different elements which were to be included in the illustrated version. Images were included from all the groups so that all students felt that part of the story was theirs. 
3. The story was corrected for mistakes and typed up on the computer to make it easier to read. 
4. Large pieces of recylcled cardboard were used as pages of the book. Students painted the card so that the background was the same for all pages - dark blue, a christmas night. 
5. The pages were mounted and the book was ready.
6. All students and teachers were invited to read a line or two from the story and the audio was added to the images resulting in a fifteen minute video. 

A lot of work went into the project, but the students were absolutely delighted with the outcome. The book has been on display at the local library since its presentation and will be back in our school soon as part of the educational heritage of our children! 

We hope you enjoy the finished result as much as we enjoyed making it!