Author: susanr
Company: Becta

Becta video transcript
Digital creativity and 'hard to reach' learners
Keeping safe
New Rush Hall 
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Class Three Productions present
Keeping Safe
Steve Barton, teacher:
Last year we worked on a film; different aspects of keeping safe. So the children worked together in pairs, they storyboarded, they made models, erm, everything. 
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Be safe near water.
Steve Barton, teacher:
A lot of the children in the class, say easily 50 per cent of the children in that class are all diagnosed with ADHD [attention deficit hyperactivity disorder], are easily distracted by anything that’s going on. With the digital filming we’ve found that actually they can concentrate on it for quite long periods of time. 
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Say no to drugs please
Steve Barton, teacher:
They put forward this persona when you are discussing serious issues, of being, you know, all powerful. “Oh, if someone came up to me I’d hit them, I’d kill them, I’d do this.” Erm, but it takes quite a lot of discussion to actually get around to what would you, what realistically would you do if approached by a stranger in the park. 
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Don’t talk to strangers
Steve Barton, teacher:
I think some of them had really thought about those issues without the bravado, without the putting on some front to be big and tough. It’s like you can be big and tough but you’re just ten years old really, you’re still extremely vulnerable even if you’ve got behavioural problems.