Week 5

Week 5 day 1 


So today was our penultimate visit to Valance school which made me sad but happy at the same time. Sad because I shall miss the students dearly once our project is over, and happy because I have had a brilliant time on the project and made some really good friends. 


 We set off around 9 again and arrived at 10ish as per usual. Nothing much happened on the journey except Shanon falling asleep again.  I used the time to annotate my copy of 'A streetcar named desire' by Tennessee William, because we have to write a coursework essay on it for English Lit.  And because I am such a good student. *heavy sarcasm* 


When we got to the school we were working in the large canteen space again. The first thing we did was go through the music section of our piece after we had finished chatting and catching up with the students. 

 
We did some warms ups and had lots of fun doing the "big face little face exercise" and the "happy face sad face exercise." We rehearsed each of the individual sections in our final performance piece and then we literally stuck them together. 


 Here is a chronological list of each of our 'sequences' or 'pieces' that we will be performing at around 11am next week monday: 



Individual car scenes 
Movement storytelling piece 
Picture poses 
Rollercoaster rides 
Sunglasses sequences 
Song - "Summer nights" 




During our lunch break we all started making up our own fun games using our inflatable toys so I recorded one new game we created which I would like to nickname "bomb ball." 

Alex and Ember were persuaded to roll down the very large hill outside the front of the main Valance school building. I recorded it for your viewing pleasure:

WHAT WENT WELL: Great day! Very hot! Lots of fun! I am WAY more confident in working with the Valance students and I feel like I am learning a lot about how to adapt to different situations. I am really enjoying the project and don't want it to end!

HOW I CAN IMPROVE: Mental and emotional preparation for saying goodbye to all the students next week. 


MY ROLE/RESPONSIBILITIES: Although I did not lead any activities today, i felt like i contributed to facilitating our workshop. I did this by ensuring that everyone in my individual groups for each section of the piece was engaged and fully understood what we were doing whilst having a good time.