Year 5 had a visiting artist, Faith Bebbington, who came into school to produce some amazing sculptures in a unique way. Our theme was the Olympians and Paralympians, and we started the day with some wire, sheets of newspaper, duck tape and coloured tape.
Everyone had to decide on the sport that they would like to recreate with their athlete. We then had to think about the country that the athlete was from to enable us to pick the correct colours for their country's flag.
We started off with a framework of wire moulded into the shape of a stick man. This was then covered in scrunched up newspaper to form the body shape. Next the whole structure was wrapped in duck tape to form a solid 3D shape.
The coloured tape was then used to identify specific parts of the model. For example, Usain Bolt wore black shorts, a green vest with a yellow stripe to represent his country Jamaica.
Some children then went on to create a paralympic champion, making their models to show the support the Paralympians required, to help them achieve their very best.
On Tuesday Year 4 visited Clonter Opera Theatre in Congleton. The day was broken down into 3 workshops, showing different aspects of the theatre.
The first workshop was to 'Design a mini stage' to which we had to design and make 4 scenes for our stage; Island of dreams, space olympics, witches spooky forest and the wild wild west. The lighting was chosen that best suited our scene, and their was a competition for the best.
The second workshop was a singing workshop. We were shown how to warm-up our faces and voices before we started to sing. Their are four types of theatre music, musicals, opera, opereta and aria. We finished off with a song from Hanzel and Gretel.
The third workshop was a variety show. This started with a musical song 'There's no business like show business ', then we listened to an opera and the final piece was a group who sang an aria.
We had a great experience at the Clonter Opera Theatre.
We would like to say a big welcome to our new Reception children. They have settled in really well and have been very busy learning all their new routines. It was lovely that they joined the rest of the school in their first whole school assembly and they stood up and told everybody their names.
Meeting our chicken!
