Haringey pupils head to film awards with first animation

Five Year 1 pupils from Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children are preparing for a red-carpet moment after their first animated short was nominated for a national film award.

Iris, JJ, Leo, Liya and Skyler have been shortlisted in the Best Animation: 5-11 category at the Into Film Awards for The Weather, a short film made during their Deaf Studios lessons. The ceremony is due to take place on Tuesday 16 June 2026 at the ODEON Luxe Cinema in Leicester Square.

The nomination puts the Haringey children among young filmmakers from across the UK whose work will be shown and celebrated by the film education charity Into Film.

Five Haringey classmates on the shortlist

The children are pupils at Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children, a specialist school in Haringey. According to the council, none of the five had filmmaking experience before making The Weather.

Their class had been learning about the weather when the pupils turned the topic into an animated story. The short follows a girl through the familiar British pattern of “four seasons in a day”, using a simple local classroom theme as the basis for a finished screen project.

For very young pupils, the nomination is about more than one film. It shows how creative work can sit inside ordinary school learning, with pupils using animation, sound and storytelling to process a topic they had already studied.

How The Weather was made in class

The Weather was created during Deaf Studios lessons, where the pupils experimented with film and animation. The group also made the soundtrack themselves, using their own instruments and objects rather than relying on a ready-made track.

That detail gives the film a hands-on classroom identity. The children were not simply performing in front of a camera; they were involved in building the world of the short, from movement and timing to sound.

The film is listed among the nominated entries for this year’s Into Film Awards, and Haringey Council said it is available to watch on Vimeo. Its category, Best Animation: 5-11, places the pupils alongside other young creators in the earliest age bracket of the awards.

A red-carpet ceremony in Leicester Square

The Into Film Awards are backed by the UK film industry and are designed to showcase young people’s creativity in film. The awards receive hundreds of entries from across the United Kingdom, with nominated works ranging from comedies to documentaries.

The event has previously attracted well-known figures from film and television, including Daniel Craig, Gemma Arterton, Martin Freeman, Hugh Grant, Naomie Harris, Bill Nighy, Simon Pegg and Ruth Wilson.

This year’s ceremony will bring the nominated pupils to ODEON Luxe Cinema in Leicester Square, one of London’s most recognisable cinema locations. For Iris, JJ, Leo, Liya and Skyler, it means their first film will be seen in the setting of a national awards event rather than staying inside the classroom.

What happens next for the nominees

The winning films will be announced at the ceremony on Tuesday 16 June 2026. Until then, The Weather remains part of the official shortlist for the Into Film Awards.

Into Film is a film education charity supported by the British Film Institute through National Lottery funding. The awards are intended to recognise young creative work and encourage children and teenagers to use film as a way to tell stories.

For Blanche Nevile School for Deaf Children, the nomination gives a group of Year 1 pupils a national platform for a first attempt at animation, built from a lesson about British weather and completed with their own soundtrack.

Source: Haringey Council

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