Campaign 14-12-2010

In these lessons we went over all Blog work and labled it all with the lesson objectives that we should be including to make it easier for the moderaters to amrk and also to show that we have a good understanding. I had to go early from this lesson so I couldn't do very much.

In the lesson we had with Miss Brogan we went over are plans to do with the next Unit of work "Scene" which we are going to see the play "warhorse" in London.

Another Idea about why plan A failed. LO2

I volenter at Bright Sparks in my spare time and we have had to try and orginaise a film festival. The target audience that we choice for this was teenages. In are evauluation setion that we had we talked about ways that we could have made it better and one of the intersting things that my leader Nat Jodes said was:
"I think that when ever we try to do something (eg organise something or a new product is made etc.) that the target audience we always go for is typically teenages, but I think that we have to face facts and some teenages are just lazy they can't be bothered really to do anything. "


This is the Creative Arts East BrightSparks Logo which is the company that Nat Works for.

Campiagn: 07/12/2010 Objective 5.4

Today we worte letters to our charity explaining what we had done so far with the campaign. This included the trip to Borwick Road posters Leaflets etc. The letter explains about our progress so far including the lack of donations (this could be because of the time of the year where parnets have a lot to do anyway and are being asked to donate to Christmas fairs and charity shops e.g the blue bags that come through the door.)
This also highlighted how sucessful we had been in promoting the piont of a charity to younger children.

We also updated our blogs with the work that we hadn't done so far.

Plan A failed, launch plan B 5.4

So far with our campaign we have made posters and went to the drama studio , to collect donations, on the 16th November and nobody was there. We had reached a grand total of 0 donations. This could have been because of the way that advertised (just by poster wouldn’t have been enough to get the message across.) but it was quite bad considering that there’re over 1600 people in the school. Now we went for Plan B using the teachers as target audience. So that is what we have done. This is the leaflet that we have designed for teachers, so fingers crossed that we get some donations now or we may have to launch plan C.

Campaign Work for 23rd November

We spent this time going over are plans for Browick road. These have now had to be changed slightly because people in our group found it slightly confusing. We got in to groups to practise what we have been doing so far.

We just went over everything so that we were ready for next week we also had to take certain things into consideration like if a child was too quiet or too loud.

Trip to Browick Road 5.4

Today (30th November) we visited Browick Road infant school to raise further awareness of our charity shop the RSPCA we have been planning this for quite sometime.

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 Sam) because of this I didn't have a costume so the performance was more improvised than it should have been due to the amount of snow and the trouble people had getting into school.

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.