It stated off okay but we had to change are plans around a little because we were missing quite a number of people due to bad weather conditions. This meant that people like me and Ryan helped out in the performance groups (I filled in as one of their toys in Sam's groups performance with Cathy, Jacob and
This meant that we only had 4 people out of our group of what should have been 7. Additionally we didn't have any name stickers because Chloe said that she would bring them in and also because she had updated our plan. This meant that what me, Jacob, Ross and Cathy did was improvise.
This didn't matter because the young children were really into TIE because at Browick road children aren't given the opportunity to do drama on a regular basis, if at all. This meant that they were excited and happy about working with us.
When we started off in the classroom we asked the teacher if we could have some stickers to use to write out are names on them so the year 2's could relate to use but didn't do one for each of the year 2's because we decided that it would take far to long to do and we had already lost a lot of time waiting for people to get in and sort out arguments for people who arrived to late to walk down with us to Browick.
Then we went into some games. We played the traffic light game and the 30 second game during which Jacob was hiding the jigsaw pieces with detachable letters around the room the idea was that one person would find a big piece, then they would have to remove the letter and give it to someone without. This was to encourage the idea of sharing (we had planned this to be toys that the children brought in but only 1 child brought in a donation ,an Ice Age toy -free from a happy meal which meant that yet again we had to compromise our plan.)
After the games we got them to sit down and watch Cathy and Ross’s performance about sharing (Cathy had to steal a toy from Ross without asking.) We then had to get the children to shout out what was wrong with it.
We them shared out the toys that we had brought as well as some of the books. They them had to come up with ways of sharing, this was a physical side of TIE because they had to act with props at the same time. This means that it gets them to inter-act more than a TIE performance at our school might allow.
After this we did another activity that involved working with other people which is also what charity is about. This game involved them getting into pairs and then giving them certain parts of the body that they could use while still holding each others hand so for example we could have said “three feet” and one would stand on 2 feet and the other would stand on 1 foot while holding onto each other.
At the end we got them to sit down and do the questionnaire but this also didn’t go to plan because we didn’t have enough time to ask boys and girls 7 questions that we had prepared. So instead we asked 4 simpler questions (the results can be seen at the end of this post) we had just enough time to do this and ask a few questions like
“can you give us a few examples of charity?”
We had a few answers:
“The RSPCA”
“Children in need”
We also had a little silly ones like
“The zoo” and “Spotty day” –this turned out to be what they did for children in need day.
Overall I think that they day went well good points for me were:
- The performance at the start.
- Explaining and playing the games because we didn’t have any really trouble some children or really quiet children. It seemed to be a very well behaved class.
- The game of hiding the letters and the sharing games because it was interesting to see how much they knew about sharing.
- And the questionnaires because it was good to get feed back also some of the answers were slightly funny.
Things that we could improve on were:
- Having more time, because we started late and had to finish early but it would have been worse if we had run out of things to do.
- Also getting the children to bring in the donations.
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