December 2010 - Wentworth High School

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Drama Year 11 BTEC The year 11 students are coming to the end of their course and are currently working on the Understanding unit which investigates the historical and social aspects of drama. Although the students have been using a number of acting skills in the various acting roles undertaken during the Performing Arts course they are always surprised to discover how skilful they have become. For this final unit the students have explored the origins of Western theatre, the Greeks, the structure of a Greek tragedy and the elements of an amphitheatre. They have also acted out extracts from John Godber’s Bouncers and a section of a play which explores one man’s reluctance to join the army during the First World War. A contrast of performance skills were required as Bouncers is a comedy and The White Feather is, as you can imagine, quite serious and heart wrenching. Year 10 BTEC The first unit that the year 10 students undertake is the Acting Skills and Techniques unit; which focuses on the use vocal skills, the use of movement skills and the interpretation and development of characters. The students are working on a number of different texts ranging from a stylised version of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus, Nasreddin Hodja, Tales of the Turkish Trickster which can, reputedly, be traced back to 1208, a poem taken from Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers, the musical hall monologue The Lion and Albert often recited by Stanley Holloway and a number of other monologues. Year 9 Year 9 have worked on developing their technical skills by utilising a short script of Dracula (very now I thought) as a way into exploring how a script offers clues as to the use of technical effects. The students have used make up, costume, sound and lighting and investigated how the use of these effects support the drama. Their next mini play uses the story of Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (anyone for a pie?) as a vehicle to investigate 19th century melodrama and characterisation through voice, gesture and movement. Year 8 Red Riding Hood with bling All but one year 8 class have finished their silent movies and I must say how impressed I was with the effort, detail and dedication that the students showed in making their movies. Making captions the 21 st century way and the old The other year 8 classes are way on their way to Paxron, a planet that mankind must move to as the earth has been drained of its
esources. However, before setting off to Paxron a number of astronauts have to be selected to inspect the planet and sure it is safe for mankind, initial robotic explorations have suggested it is. The students have to prepare a speech to persuade a panel of judges that they should go, (only a number of trainees from each class will be selected). The fun part of this first lesson is that the judges are a number of students from the class. The astronauts are then interviewed by News at 10 prior to their departure. As the scheme progresses the students build their space ship and blast off for Paxron flying through space (youtube what a resource) and Building a rocket ship eventually landing safely; but what is that moving in the distance? Year 7 The year 7 students are currently undertaking a scheme entitled Darkwood Manor. I enjoy delivering this scheme as I get to scare the students and they get to scare each other. The students are asked to play ghost hunters, magazine writers, T.V. news men or women who volunteer to spend a night at Darkwood Manor to prove or disprove there are ghosts living there. The students use physical theatre to become doors, creaking gates and statues that come alive. The climax of this scheme is great fun; the lights are turned out and the students create the gardens of the manor and take turns walking up to the manor while other students are the statues, creaking gates and doors. Being intervi ewed by the 10 O’clock news team Mr O’Leary Drama Introducing our Head Prefects <strong>2010</strong>/11 Congratulations to: Ryan Maybury Head Boy Kirsty Millard Head Girl Tom Leonard Deputy Head Boy Nyasha Mdoka Deputy Head Girl
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