Learn more about what we do by looking at some of our current and recent productions. For more information on our work, email admin@cornucopia.tv or see our  full contact details.

Ecomaths

Nine short programmes made by Cornucopia for BBC and broadcast in 2012 on the BBC Learning Zone.  Featuring Stefan Gates finding out about real life environmental issues and the maths that helps us create a more sustainable world.

Acting Around Words

This series was produced by Cornucopia for the BBC, to reveal rehearsal and performance techniques of Physical Theatre.  Four theatre companies were involved in the series: RSC and Soho Theatre's production of 'Fit and Proper People', Cardboard Citizens and 'Three Blind Mice', Shared Experience's 'Speechless', and Frantic Assembly with 'Lovesong'.

Connecting Classrooms

A commission with the British Council to produce 3 documentaries about connecting classrooms and raising standards.

The programmes feature schools in the Veracruz state of Mexico and have been produced in Spanish for translation into Portugese and English.

The British Council is distributing the series in the UK and Latin America and the programmes are being broadcast on Teachers TV during 2009/10.

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Learning to Cook

Charged with bringing cooking to Teachers TV we have developed an engaging pupil centred format to reveal the unique place of cooking and food technology in the curriculum and life of the school.

The range covered in the first four programmes includes inner city Community Schools, a new Academy and a rural Secondary school with its own farm.

This continuing strand now includes a personality led format called 'Chef's Challenge' based on the Chef’s 'Adopt a School' scheme run by the Academy of Culinary Arts.

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Peer Mentoring

A series of 4 programmes made as a co-production with Teachers TV and the Mentoring and Befriending Foundation.

The programmes explored relationships between mentors and mentees and peer mentoring schemes in schools across the UK. It required sensitive handling and skillful editing to achieve both an authentic and engaging end result.

The series was first broadcast in 2008.

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Scrapping the Timetable at Hook

A one-off programme produced for Teachers TV in their innovation slot.

This programme follows a day in the life of Hook Primary School in Yorkshire. The programme reveals a way of working with no fixed timetable and no doors to the classrooms.

Using fly on the wall techniques it explores the intimacy and team work that lies at the heart of this outstanding and innovative school.

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Showcase

A 24 part series of 30 minute, studio-based programmes presented by Andrew Burroughs and produced for Teachers TV.

The series is aimed at primary and secondary school teachers and showcases what’s on offer from the Channel 4 and BBC schools' output to support learning. Co-produced with Illumina Digital and first broadcast in 2006.