Tuesday and Wednesday were spent at Aston cluster transition workshop, leading the new first year students in a circus skills workshops. The aim being to ease new Students with the experience of coming to high school and an opportunity to socialise with their new class mates.
The groups were much larger than expected but the workshop leaders split the group in half and worked effectively with the large group, but larger groups meant that giving instructions and having some individual input with each student took away time from other planned activities.
It was a success in that every student joined in and gained something from the experience. I myself led the instruction of juggling and flower sticks. Its been awhile since I've instucted a group of that size, but handled it well I think, as the students joined in and followed my instruction.
Thursday I spent in the office, working further on the Tell Tales resource pack, looking over the Cicus Science packs. Don't at the moment feel the science pack is appropriate for its intended use.
Thursday, 2 September 2010
Sixth Week 26th of August
Tuesday and Wednesday I spent in the office working on a resource pack for the show Tell Tales. I began construction on a pack aimed as support material for teachers in primary schools, the pack consists of information about the show for example the synopsis and how it was devised, to info about Swamp Circus Trust. I also created worksheets and drama activities aimed at key stages 1 & 2 to be included in the pack.
Though I am confident in my skills creating literary and drama work for key stages 1 and 2, and the lay out of the resource pack is effective, I have limited design skills, so was unable to create a title page. This is an area I think I should develop further. Would like to learn to use the computer program Microsoft Photoshop.
Thursday was a really soggy but enjoyable day at Endcliffe Park.
Out doors for the day in a gorgeously green park, cafe to our left, children's play park to our right, perfect positioning for attracting passer bys attention. The weather was horrid, but the children joining in and really enjoying themselves kept us there playing all day. I tied banner to parks gates so passing traffic and pedestrians could see who we were, but think bigger promotional gear needed to look more professional.
Friday a workshop day fell through so I then went to the office, which led to to going over to Cliffton summer school to help manage a rather large excitable group of children perform the circus skills they had learnt over a week to their parents. Part of their show included every child going over the tight wire, I before hand would have thought this boring for an audience, but in this style of performancce parents enjoyed the opportunity to get their mobiles out and snap a picture. The time delay to their child's turn on the wire was a good thing in their eyes, may be something I consider for future work.
Though I am confident in my skills creating literary and drama work for key stages 1 and 2, and the lay out of the resource pack is effective, I have limited design skills, so was unable to create a title page. This is an area I think I should develop further. Would like to learn to use the computer program Microsoft Photoshop.
Thursday was a really soggy but enjoyable day at Endcliffe Park.
Out doors for the day in a gorgeously green park, cafe to our left, children's play park to our right, perfect positioning for attracting passer bys attention. The weather was horrid, but the children joining in and really enjoying themselves kept us there playing all day. I tied banner to parks gates so passing traffic and pedestrians could see who we were, but think bigger promotional gear needed to look more professional.
Friday a workshop day fell through so I then went to the office, which led to to going over to Cliffton summer school to help manage a rather large excitable group of children perform the circus skills they had learnt over a week to their parents. Part of their show included every child going over the tight wire, I before hand would have thought this boring for an audience, but in this style of performancce parents enjoyed the opportunity to get their mobiles out and snap a picture. The time delay to their child's turn on the wire was a good thing in their eyes, may be something I consider for future work.
Fifth Week 16th of August
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Rotherham Unity centre summer workshop.
The group was of mixed skills ability, chance to meet some of the older students who have been with swamp for many years, whos skills and confidence in performing circus skills were very impressive. Loved the show, mix of students performing singular activities, a parade of circus skills and two longer more developed comedy sketches.
Something all children enjoy during workshop is playing the clown, I assume the joy comes from performing something they may normally have inhibitions about for comic effect makes light of these areas, thus making for an enjoyable experience for them and their audience. (may consider this more, as I research clowning further)
– Saturday 21st – Hackenthorpe fair, a local community type fair, a field, lots of stalls, inflatable children play areas, centre ring.
Lots of local community, all day there was interest in the stall, people coming over having ago at the equipment, taking instruction from swamp workers and myself. There was a performance space, that had dancers, martial artists, that attracted larger audiences, could have been a great performance space, apparently had been a plan to use time at Rotherham unity centre to prepare performance for this, but due to lack of funding this didn’t happen, which seems a shame.
The group was of mixed skills ability, chance to meet some of the older students who have been with swamp for many years, whos skills and confidence in performing circus skills were very impressive. Loved the show, mix of students performing singular activities, a parade of circus skills and two longer more developed comedy sketches.
Something all children enjoy during workshop is playing the clown, I assume the joy comes from performing something they may normally have inhibitions about for comic effect makes light of these areas, thus making for an enjoyable experience for them and their audience. (may consider this more, as I research clowning further)
– Saturday 21st – Hackenthorpe fair, a local community type fair, a field, lots of stalls, inflatable children play areas, centre ring.
Lots of local community, all day there was interest in the stall, people coming over having ago at the equipment, taking instruction from swamp workers and myself. There was a performance space, that had dancers, martial artists, that attracted larger audiences, could have been a great performance space, apparently had been a plan to use time at Rotherham unity centre to prepare performance for this, but due to lack of funding this didn’t happen, which seems a shame.
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