Our first day of summer school
Today was our first day at summer school! We arrived at school at 8:30 and started working on our puzzles. Then we got to know each other a bit. We then read a poem with Miss Bird called zebras. We had to create either a piece of drama on it or a picture!
We moved into the lecture theatre and started our work! Miss Bird taught us some African words like Tembo means Elephant, Jambo means Hello and Twiga means Giraffe. Our group did a picture based on the poem Zebras where on each page the zebras were pulling the sun further across the page.
We then started on creating our own poems about Africa. I did an acrostic poem about an Elephant and I called it Tembo to impress Miss Bird with my African! And I got a lollypop for it. J After our morning break we finished our poems then moved back into the library to create our mood boards. We had a big piece of card to fill up with African pictures, materials, and some information. We completely filled ours up with patterns, materials and pictures.
At the end of the day Miss Bird took us out to do some limbo! It was a laugh and me and Myriam were doing it together and getting very low! Sadly Miss Jackson didn’t join in but Miss Bird had a go! I did enjoy my first day of summer school and I look forward to going to see the Lion King!
Alice (RAFIKI)
Kate’s blog
First thing this morning my group read each others poems that we had written about African animals. We discussed the merits of each poem amongst ourselves and chose the one that we thought was the best. The poem that stood out that was voted the best was about hyenas and gazelles. Then we were asked to make a mask for the reenactment of the poem we chose earlier.
I was asked to be a gazelle, I used fake fur, various coloured paint pipe cleaners and card to produce my mask. I was quite satisfied with the finished article. After break some of us, including myself went to the art room we made a set for our poem using a shoebox as our stage. I made a rock of polystyrene, a tree, the sun, a water hole and the back ground out of card. I thought my work was pretty good and I enjoyed myself a lot.
Wednesday
Firstly today we were told what we would be doing and what we needed to get finished. We then all went the art room to finish off our masks for the presentation on Friday, I almost didn’t finished because I had to quickly finish off the back of my mask, Ellen’s mask is the best gazelle mask I have ever seen, its so neat and detailed. Everyone’s masks were very colourful and represented all the different African animals, some people also did Tribe masks, Stanley, our team leader, had to create another mask because we needed a lion mask for our performance piece.
We all then went to a longer break, we were allowed to eat in the library because it was cold outside, when we finished our lunches we were told what would happen next had then had to line up next to the person you wanted to sing next to at the Lion King and given our tickets, we then were all taken to the coach and told to get on and put on our seatbelts,
It took us about an hour to get into London and park, some of us left our bags on the coach and the others took them with them, we then made our way to the theatre. We had to stay outside a bit because we got there a little early but a little while later the doors opened and we were let in. We were sitting in the royal circle, which I think were the best seats because you could see everything on the stage.
On the stage of the Lion King there was always more than one thing going on at a time so it was very difficult to focus on one thing. I think the way the actors made the animals move was very clever and realistic. We’re hoping to add some of these techniques into out performances tomorrow. The music was very good, all the actors had really good voices and the African drums in the background made it all the more realistic. As well as the sets the costumes were all in tune with the characters.
In some parts of the Lion King there were funny parts but there were also dramatic scenes as well. Rafiki was my favourite character as she was very funny in many parts. This was the first time I have seen the lion king in the theatre and I have to say I was impressed a lot, everything about it was amazing. I can’t wait to do our performances on Friday now.
Nathalie (RAFIKI)
Today was our first day at summer school! We arrived at school at 8:30 and started working on our puzzles. Then we got to know each other a bit. We then read a poem with Miss Bird called zebras. We had to create either a piece of drama on it or a picture!
We moved into the lecture theatre and started our work! Miss Bird taught us some African words like Tembo means Elephant, Jambo means Hello and Twiga means Giraffe. Our group did a picture based on the poem Zebras where on each page the zebras were pulling the sun further across the page.
We then started on creating our own poems about Africa. I did an acrostic poem about an Elephant and I called it Tembo to impress Miss Bird with my African! And I got a lollypop for it. J After our morning break we finished our poems then moved back into the library to create our mood boards. We had a big piece of card to fill up with African pictures, materials, and some information. We completely filled ours up with patterns, materials and pictures.
At the end of the day Miss Bird took us out to do some limbo! It was a laugh and me and Myriam were doing it together and getting very low! Sadly Miss Jackson didn’t join in but Miss Bird had a go! I did enjoy my first day of summer school and I look forward to going to see the Lion King!
Alice (RAFIKI)
Kate’s blog
First thing this morning my group read each others poems that we had written about African animals. We discussed the merits of each poem amongst ourselves and chose the one that we thought was the best. The poem that stood out that was voted the best was about hyenas and gazelles. Then we were asked to make a mask for the reenactment of the poem we chose earlier.
I was asked to be a gazelle, I used fake fur, various coloured paint pipe cleaners and card to produce my mask. I was quite satisfied with the finished article. After break some of us, including myself went to the art room we made a set for our poem using a shoebox as our stage. I made a rock of polystyrene, a tree, the sun, a water hole and the back ground out of card. I thought my work was pretty good and I enjoyed myself a lot.
Wednesday
Firstly today we were told what we would be doing and what we needed to get finished. We then all went the art room to finish off our masks for the presentation on Friday, I almost didn’t finished because I had to quickly finish off the back of my mask, Ellen’s mask is the best gazelle mask I have ever seen, its so neat and detailed. Everyone’s masks were very colourful and represented all the different African animals, some people also did Tribe masks, Stanley, our team leader, had to create another mask because we needed a lion mask for our performance piece.
We all then went to a longer break, we were allowed to eat in the library because it was cold outside, when we finished our lunches we were told what would happen next had then had to line up next to the person you wanted to sing next to at the Lion King and given our tickets, we then were all taken to the coach and told to get on and put on our seatbelts,
It took us about an hour to get into London and park, some of us left our bags on the coach and the others took them with them, we then made our way to the theatre. We had to stay outside a bit because we got there a little early but a little while later the doors opened and we were let in. We were sitting in the royal circle, which I think were the best seats because you could see everything on the stage.
On the stage of the Lion King there was always more than one thing going on at a time so it was very difficult to focus on one thing. I think the way the actors made the animals move was very clever and realistic. We’re hoping to add some of these techniques into out performances tomorrow. The music was very good, all the actors had really good voices and the African drums in the background made it all the more realistic. As well as the sets the costumes were all in tune with the characters.
In some parts of the Lion King there were funny parts but there were also dramatic scenes as well. Rafiki was my favourite character as she was very funny in many parts. This was the first time I have seen the lion king in the theatre and I have to say I was impressed a lot, everything about it was amazing. I can’t wait to do our performances on Friday now.
Nathalie (RAFIKI)
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