The 2012 Lindisfarne CaVE was an opportunity for our Year 9's to make a series of short 'living history' films for public exhibition in the Lindisfarne Visitor Centre. Click to watch the videos and read about how they were made.

The 2012 Lindisfarne CaVE was an opportunity to show some creativity in the spectacular surroundings of Holy Island (also called Lindisfarne). Hundreds of thousands of tourists a year come from all over the world to visit this isolated island community. Lindisfarne is the birth place of Christianity in the UK and the site of the first recorded Viking attack on the English in the 7th century, but we were there to record some more recent history. We had been invited to make a series of short 'living history' films for public exhibition in the Lindisfarne Visitor Centre.

Before setting off, Year 9 were given two days worth training in workshops on film making techniques, editing and interviewing. They wrote all their own questions and were shown how to use the iPads. Arriving on the island on the Wednesday we first had a crash course in the geography and history of the place then Year 9 started filming.

We spent two days on the island and stayed overnight at the Berwick Youth Hostel. We interviewed 9 islanders in total, who had lived on Lindisfarne all their lives. Despite some set backs and a full extra terms worth of work during a weekly enrichment, we are now at a point were we can return to Lindsifarne and 'premiere' our films!

View the short films below to see how we got on.