Forgotten Island: An Adventure to Remember

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Embark on an unforgettable learning adventure for the whole class with our new curriculum-linked resource for learners aged 7-11, created with Universal Pictures UK to celebrate the release of Forgotten Island, in cinemas October 16.

Download for FREE today to access our two-lesson learning sequence, packed full of creative activities to support attainment across subjects including PSHE, English and music.

The first 400 schools to register will receive an exclusive printed pack containing a Forgotten Island matching pairs game, character stickers, and competition sheets for the class!

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Your best friendship is worth fighting for

Forgotten Island is a dazzling new animation which tells the story of life long friends Jo and Raissa as they embark on separate life paths. While celebrating their last night together, they are transported to the fantastical island of Nakali. When they discover that their memories oftheir friendship are the price for returning home, Jo and Raissa must race to find a way to leave the island, before they forget each other forever.

An Adventure to Remember champions the themes of memory, friendship and teamwork in the original new film to engage learners in a range of literacy and oracy activities, inspired by the fantastical world of Forgotten Island.

Your class will discover the qualities and importance of healthy friendships. They will learn fun and practical memory-boosting techniques as they discover how storytelling and music can be effective tools to connect us with our memories, and our friends.

A chance to win a Fujifilm instax™ Mini 12 camera and Forgotten Island merchandise for the whole class with our Memory Anchors competition!

Challenge your class to use their drawing skills to design a Polaroid photo-style poster featuring themselves, a friend and the memory anchors that best represent their friendship.

Our creative competition is a fun opportunity for learners to consolidate their discoveries from the resource activities, whilst being in with a chance to win a Fujifilm instax™ Mini 12 instant camera! This exciting prize includes instax™ mini film shot bundles to use with the camera, and Forgotten Island merchandise for the winner’s class to enjoy.

Plus, there are additional merchandise packs available for two runners-up.

For full details of how to enter, download our Memory Anchors competition sheet.

The closing date for entries is Friday 23 October 2026.

DOWNLOAD AND ENTER TODAY

About Forgotten Island

Your best friendship is worth fighting for.

DreamWorks Animation, the studio that brought you unforgettable bonds between a boy and a dragon in How to Train Your Dragon, an ogre and a donkey in Shrek, and a robot and a gosling in The Wild Robot, now welcomes a dazzling and emotional story about two lifelong best friends who must come together before they drift apart in Forgotten Island.

The new original film is written and directed by Academy Award® nominee Joel Crawford and Januel Mercado and is produced by Academy Award® nominee Mark Swift, the filmmaking team behind Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.

Grammy and Academy Award® winning supernova H.E.R. and Liza Soberano (Lisa Frankenstein, Alone/Together) star as high school graduates Jo and Raissa, who have been best friends since primary school but are now about to embark on separate life paths.

While celebrating their last night together, Jo and Raissa stumble upon a mysterious portal that transports them to the fantastical island of Nakali, packed with magical and mythological creatures they grew up hearing stories about from their Filipino families.

Some of these figures will become friends, some foes. Joined by well-meaning-but- hapless weredog Raww (Dave Franco) and a small-but-mighty pack of pals, Jo and Raissa must face The Dreaded Manananggal (Tony winning icon Lea Salonga), the most feared creature on the island. When they discover that the memories of their entire friendship are the price for returning home, Jo and Raissa will race to find a way to leave the island before they forget each other forever.

The film’s all-star voice cast also includes Emmy nominee Jenny Slate (Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Dying for Sex), Manny Jacinto (The Good Place, Top Gun: Maverick), BAFTA nominee Dolly de Leon (Triangle of Sadness, Ghostlight), global comedy superstar Jo Koy (Haunted Mansion, Jo Koy: Live from Brooklyn) and Emmy winner Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show, M3GAN).

DreamWorks Animation’s Forgotten Island is distributed by Universal Pictures.

Forgotten Island, in cinemas October 16.

Director/s

Joel Crawford, Januel Mercado

Starring

H.E.R., Liza Soberano, Dave Franco, Jenny Slate, Manny Jacinto, Dolly de Leon, Jo Koy, Ronny Chieng, Lea Salonga.

Producer/s

Mark Swift

Certificate

Classification

This resource has been commissioned by Universal Pictures to support the release of Forgotten Island

​Embark on an unforgettable learning adventure for the whole class with our new curriculum-linked resource for learners aged 7-11, created with Universal Pictures UK to celebrate the release of Forgotten Island, in cinemas October 16.