Mufasa Group Diary!

Monday 24th August
We arrived at school around 8:30 and registered in the library. We were put into groups. We were called Mufasa and our team leader was Ross. He told me to write he’s amazing. Ms Jackson told us about what we would be doing during the next week and then left us to do some puzzles. Then Ms Bird talked to us about Africa and we left the library to go to the lecture theatre.

In the lecture theatre we looked at some Swahili words. We also looked at some poems about Africa and then had to write our own. At 10:45 we had break for half an hour and after we went back to the lecture theatre to finish our poems. Around 12:00 we went back to the library and started to make a mood board with our group using materials we had brought in.

Our mood board was really colourful and had lots of pictures and information. We all enjoyed cutting things out, drawing and writing, while we talked to each other and started to bond. Around 1:15 we all tidied up the mess we had made. We went out behind the library and for the last 15 minutes and we all played limbo, a game played by African slaves in the slave ships to let them exercise in a minimal amount of space. Once we had each had a few goes we collected our bags and went home to have lunch.

By Sophie

Tuesday 25th August

Today we all met at 8:30am in the library. We finished off our mood boards and then went to the art rooms. We were talked through the materials that we could use, and the sort of animals. Our group was moved to another art room. Three of us made tribal men and women and two of us made animals – a giraffe and an elephant. At 11 o’ clock we had our break until 11:30. We met in the library and discussed what jobs we were all going to do. One person did the blog, another chose the music, another person typing a piece of creative writing, whilst the others decorated their shoebox set.

At this time, we were starting to piece our work together, ready for Friday. Each day the group bonds more, as we do group tasks and have to work together, helping each other. Once everybody had done what they aimed to do by the end of the day, we all met in the library. Ms Jackson talked us through the plan for Wednesday and we all made notes. After that (at 1:30pm), we were allowed to go home. I feel that once one day is over, I look forward to the next!

By Becky (Mufasa)

Wednesday 26th August
We arrived at 8:30 in the library. Then we had to go to see Ms Jackson to be signed in. After that we went into the art room so we could finish our masks that we started the day before.
At 11 o’clock we went and had lunch for 45 minutes then at 11:45 we got into our pairs we were sitting with on the coach to go see lion king, so we could get our tickets to see the show. At 12 o’ clock we got onto the coach, we arrived at theatre around 1:30, we had a little time to get sweets and go to the shop. At 2 the show was going to start so we had to be in our seats by 1:50. Lion king Finished around 5ish and we had to go back to our coach. Lion king was funny and the characters singing were really good. Ross are leader is amazing he is so funny. We arrived back at school at 6 o’ clock and I really enjoyed my day.

By Leah

Thursday 27th August

This morning we signed in at the library at 8.30am. After that we prepared a script for the performance to parents tomorrow. We then went into the gym to rehearse. In my group, two characters (who represented animals) were killed for food for the tribespeople, which was quite dramatic. I was one of the tribespeople, along with Sophie and Hayden and we had specially designed costumes, made by our very own fashion designer, Ross. The costumes were – interesting!

At around 11am, we took a much needed break (well, there’s only so much ‘dying’ an animal person can do in one morning!)

After break and our time rehearsing, we went into the lecture theatre to type up our scripts and Lion King critiques. Once that was finished, we went back to the gym for the best part of the day, playing some crazy games!

We played a shipping game and had great fun running about collecting survivors and saluting the captain, Miss Jackson. We also played murder ball, where four people had a ball and the ball was thrown at our feet. If it touched them we were then on that person’s team and could throw the ball ourselves to snare some more teammates.

By this time it was the end of our day and we all went our separate ways home.

By Francesca (Mufasa)