The Slam Dunk programme is delivered over three 2-hour sessions and has been designed to highlight how sport can be used to bring people together as a positive force for sharing, team-working and co-operation. Pupils explore this topic through a film screening and a series of story writing and creative ICT tasks.

Session 1: Film screening of ‘Kicking and Screaming'
Film length: 95 Minutes - followed by discussion
This session will stress how overly competitive sports turn people against each other and get obsessed with a sport to the detriment of family and friends. The session will feature a cinema screening of ‘Kicking and Screaming' which shows viewers how a team of underdogs, working effectively together, can defeat a more talented group of individuals. It also shows how others from a different culture have skills that can help us all.

Session 2: Hands -on ICT workshop
Duration: 1/2 Day
Pupils will learn how to use ‘Comic Life' software. This will involve adding templates, lettering, caption boxes, speech and thought bubbles, changing styles and adding and resizing images. Pupils will have a chance to practice their newly acquired comic production skills on a practice page. n this session pupils will look at layout, design features and styles of comics. Pupils can put this knowledge again into practical use by re-designing their practice page to incorporate some of the standard comic features and styles they have learned.

Session 3: Hands -on ICT workshop
Duration: 1/2 Day
Pupils will use a Story Planning Sheet to assist in the writing of a story about meeting or having contact with someone new who is an outsider or different from them either by their culture, place of birth or maybe a disability. The story will use sport as its theme. Pupils can look at both the Ulster Weans' A-Z CD-ROM and the provided bank of images to help them think of story ideas for their comic. When the Story Planning Sheet is complete and has been checked by a teacher or trainer, the pupils' story ideas can be transferred to a comic Storyboard .

When the Storyboard has been completed and pupils can move on to producing a comic. These comics will be printed in colour and sent to the school along with a CD with digital versions of the comics.