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The Singing Street (clip 3)

Traditional children's street games

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Description

Collection of children's street games filmed in the back streets of Edinburgh accompanied by traditional children's songs. Includes skipping, ball games and hopscotch.

Questions & Activities

Questions

  • What do these clips tell us and why do we need clips like these?
  • Who do you think shot this film and why?
  • What playground rhymes and songs do you know?
  • What would these children think about how modern children spend their spare time?
  • What qualities does this clip share with a modern rock video?
  • Count how many long shots are used in the extracts and say what effect this has.
  • What genre could these clips be put into?

Activities

Health and Wellbeing / PSE: Research traditional playground games so that you can teach them to another class at playtime.

Health and Wellbeing / Expressive Arts / Media Studies: Make a video record of games that you play now.

Media Studies / English: Storyboard and make a rock video for a playground tune.

Maths / Health and Wellbeing: Think of as many modern day items for her to fetch. Make up your own skipping clapping game to demonstrate understanding number bonds, times-tables.

PSE / Health and Wellbeing: Invent a new playground song to accompany skipping or other playground activity.

English: Freeze clip on one shot and create a story around the characters.

English: Write in any way you wish with a freeze frame from the clip.

Clip Details

Record Id 007-000-000-139-C
Resource Rights Holder National Library of Scotland
Project Ref 0799
Date 1951
Genre Documentary, Education, Amateur
School Subject Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, English, Mathematics, History, Social Studies, Physical Education
Subject Matter Literacy
Who Children
Where Edinburgh, Leith
Attributes Black and White, Sound
Clip Length 1:44
Film Length 18:00
References Skip For Scotland.