Wreake Valley Joins Other UK Schools to Celebrate Panasonic Competition Film Making Achievement

Wreake Valley Community College is one of only 19 secondary schools across the UK to take part in the International competition and have been successfully invited to attend the Panasonic KWN National Awards Ceremony. KWN is a video and life-skills programme empowering secondary students in five continents. The programme provides state-of-the-art video production equipment and training for the development of School Video News Teams. Beginning with two schools in the USA in 1988, the Panasonic KWN programme has grown to support 749 schools in 24 countries. This year there are almost a hundred schools taking part across Europe; including 19 in the UK.
The KWN Awards Ceremony will take place on Tuesday 4th May and will be themed similar to the ‘Oscars’, where student video production teams from participating schools, will receive awards in a range of categories such as Best Pictures and Sound, Best Reporting Team, Best Learning Journey and so on. On the day the 19 secondary schools will have the chance to view one another’s documentaries and also take part in a series of collaborative creative activities. The day will be a real chance for young people from around the UK to showcase their talent. The winners of the competition are then invited to New York City to celebrate their accomplishments and take part in a weekend of activities.
Wreake Valley Community College’s very own Year 10 BTEC Media Production students, have collectively produced an educational documentary for the Panasonic KWN (Kids Witness News) competition. The documentary is about littering and the misuse of chewing gum disposal and graffiti around the Leicester city centre. Students researched, produced, directed and edited the video documentary to help highlight the issues and consequences of littering and graffiti in the area.

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