It was a real joy for Sallyann, Sixth Sense MD, to be asked to present this panel on the topic of ‘Leadership in 2021 and Beyond’ at the Children's Media Conference 2021. Featuring panelists Tom Box of Blue Zoo, Shabnam Rezaei of Big Bad Boo and Jon Mason of Jollywise, as [...]
In preparation for the Children's Media Conference 2021, Sixth Sense collaborated with the wonderful McPin Foundation to commission research for their upcoming panel ‘Happy Media, Happy Mind.’ The research asked young people themselves for their thoughts about all forms of media and the relationship between media and mental health. Sixth Sense [...]
Sallyann Keizer and the rest of Sixth Sense Media recently produced a campaign film for an incredibly important cause. The #BrakeTheSystem fundraising campaign was launched on June 1st by the youth mental health charity Beyond, and has a £500,000 target to fund urgent mental health support for schools. To create the [...]
We’re delighted that FULL EPISODES of Our Family Series 1 are now available on YouTube Kids. The video app provides curated selections of content deemed appropriate for children and we are thrilled that the team at YouTube have promoted our playlist on the platform! Download the app to your device, smart [...]
The team at Sixth Sense has been beavering away over the last few weeks to bring together a session for Beyond as part of Mental Health Awareness Week. Our MD, Sallyann Keizer (she/her), hosts an inspiring session about LGBTQ+ issues featuring two Beyond youth board members, Jacob People (he/they) and Courtney Peet [...]
Sixth Sense MD, Sallyann Keizer was greatly honoured to be invited to join Imad Yassin, the Chairman of Idris Foundation on Instagram Live as part of their Compassion series of conversations. The chat covered forgiveness, love, working with children as well compassion from childhood to adulthood. It was an inspiring session [...]
We are also pleased to announce that we have had the joy of working with BBC Teach to produce a series of 6 films for their wonderful education platform - all based on the new KS1 RSE curriculum. They cover a range of topics important for the new curriculum, including: Showing respect with [...]
To complement the new series of Our Family, Sixth Sense produced a support film for CBeebies’ Grown-Ups titled ‘All Families Are Different, All Families Are Special.’ Featuring five beautiful families, some from previous series and some new connections, the short film delivers three key tips to parents about how to teach [...]
Joining in with the events at MIP is always a joy, and Sallyann Keizer was glad to lead a mentoring session on the subject of DEI in the world of children’s media at MIPTV 2021. These were small, intimate sessions that enabled truly substantive and enlightening conversations. Sallyann said about the [...]
We are delighted to share that the latest series of Our Family is about to go to air! We’ve been working (on and off!) on these very special programmes for the last year, through the trials and tribulations of lockdown. The twenty episodes will be transmitted on CBeebies (and iPlayer) from Monday 5th April and are scheduled for 16.10 Monday [...]
