We learn english while we act!

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]During this term in drama we have been working on giving the children confidence in speaking English but through the medium of Theatre.

This is such a brilliant way to introduce new vocabulary, pronounciation and intonation because the children forget that they are even learning English.

We have been doing a variety of speaking, miming, expression and focus activities to give the pupils the skills they needed to perform the play.
I chose the story- Guess How Much I Love You by Sam Mcbratney because it is such a relatable story for everyone. It follows a family of rabbits who have a competition about how much they love each other and there are lots of other characters along the way that we meet too. I worked on adapting this book into a play so that all of the students had at least two lines each to say.
The book explores themes such as love, friendship and family- all of which are very important things within everyones lifes. It also requires a lot of physicality to become a character such as a rabbit or the moon for example. So, for the first few weeks we explored how we could use our bodies to become different objects and how we could work as a team to do this too.
The children not only spoke a lot of English during our four weeks together but they also learnt a lot of valuable skills such as, listening to and following instructions in English, collaboration and working together, learning and memorising script material, professional behaviour within a theatre, projection and most importantly we had lots of fun along the way.
If I was to develop this project I would have liked more time to explore the story with the children so that it could have been a more personal experience. It went very well but had we had more time we would have been able to explore the physicalities of the characters more. Also, I would have been able to build more of a relationship with the children as I had not worked with them before.
Pol (The Theatre teacher) and I, worked cohesively together and I am very happy with the professional relationship we managed to build up over the four weeks of working together.
Gaining feedback from the teachers I believe everyone was happy with the final show and the process. I think everyone would have prefered more time but obviously that just wasnt possible.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/luwzxdCHObQ"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/CMSQPKop20Q" align="right"][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_video link="https://youtu.be/D05grQXJ5yw" align="center"][/vc_column][vc_column width="1/4"][/vc_column][/vc_row]