Jigsaw The Movie

Jigsaw The Movie is the culmination of a term’s work by a group of year six children at St John’s CE Primary School in Weymouth in the UK.

This unique film demonstrates how Jigsaw PSHE helps children to build empathy and emotional literacy using their own documentary intercut with drama, created and filmed entirely by the children.

How the movie was made

We commissioned Dorset production company, ScreenPLAY, to help the children of a local school, St John’s CE Primary in Weymouth, to create their own movie to show how the Jigsaw PSHE scheme of work can help children cultivate a wider social awareness and empathy, by telling the story from their own viewpoint.

The children learned how to animate, direct, storyboard the action, and use the necessary technical equipment, in addition to improvisation and drama techniques to compose their own story. They then filmed, photographed, and audio-recorded the whole school in a very sensitive way.

Alastair Nisbet from ScreenPLAY said, “Over the course of the term, the group grew into a strong unit, who could set up a scene and then film and audio record it like professionals.”

Behind the Scenes

Film Workshop with the makers of Jigsaw the Movie

Would you like the team who produced Jigsaw the Movie to work with pupils in your school? 

Dorset-based ScreenPLAY brings a unique ‘dramatherapy approach’ to film and animation workshops. Working with young people aged 6-16, they put the participants at the heart of the creative process.

For details of what they can offer your school, click the ScreenPLAY logo below and then the ‘Contact us’ link on the bottom of their page.