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#PERFORMING ARTSHumans & Humanity:CreativeResponsestoCOVIDKey stage 3 students have been using theirDrama and Theatre craft classes to reflect onand respond to their experiences of lockdownand world events over 2020/2021.Exploring a practical subject like drama throughTeams was quite a challenge! Rather than developingperformance skills such as voice work and physicaltheatre, during the spring term our drama studentsconsidered how different theatrical conventions canbe used to enhance the audience experience, wrotetheir own original scripts and investigated the nonactingroles within the theatre industry. Studentsalso enjoyed live recordings of theatre productionsthrough the National Theatre Live at Home provisionIn Drama year 9 explored political theatre, usingplays by Anna Deaver Smith and Katie Mitchel asinspiration before creating their own pieces of politicaltheatre imagining what a post-pandemic world mightlook like. Year 8 focused on choral performance,studying the National Theatre’s production Medeaand learning about the creative potential and usesof Greek chorus before writing pandemic inspiredchoral pieces. Meanwhile year seven focused on theirnon-verbal performance skills and were inspired byWonderLand to adapt existing stories with a moderntwist, including mime and tableau to share storiesbased on their own experiences and to adapt existingstories to set them in the pandemic.Adapting an extremely practical subject that requiresparticipation and teamwork seemed impossible at first.However, we quickly found that our young peoplehad ideas to share and using a few easy resources westill managed to share and develop those ideas. Usingsharable whiteboards on Microsoft Teams, Kahootquizzes and interactive suggestion boxes on Nearpodstudents were able to make unique creative writingpieces and innovative designs.In Theatre craft students developed their visual skills.In year 7, students created fictional sketchbooksinspired by “War Horse” and learnt about the variousoff stage roles and careers within the theatre industry.Our year 8 students practised their photo-shoppingskills by editing new ‘pop art’ realities whilst year9 imagined what they would like their community’sfuture to look like and replicated it through animationsmade in adobe after effects.The work created ranged from humorous to thoughtprovoking, satirical to deeply personal and wewere blown away by the creativity and resiliencedemonstrated in Performing Arts lessons during thisunique year.104Laura Rae, Tom Daplyn and Daniel Ramsden(Performing Arts Drama Department)
PERFORMING ARTS#Inside These Four WallsInside these four walls:a single daisy in a huge field,Inside these four walls: a lone raindrop in a storm,Inside these four walls:a fox separated from its pack,Inside these four walls: a duck away from the pond.Inside these four walls: as open as a labyrinth,Inside these four walls:as calm as an airport in a blizzard,Inside these four walls:as empty as a five-star restaurant,Inside these four walls: as free as a prison.Inside these four walls:some were marching in protests for a change,Inside these four walls: some were votingin politics and elections,Inside these four walls:some were stopping bushfires,Inside these four walls: some were evacuateddue to floods and landslides.Inside these four walls: longing to dress up,Inside these four walls: longing to touch,Inside these four walls: longing to see faces,Inside these four walls: longing to go out.Inside these four walls: sick of covered faces,Inside these four walls: sick of constant sanitizing,Inside these four walls: sick of two-meter signs,Inside these four walls: sick of computer screens.Inside these four walls: soon there will be a party,Inside these four walls: soon there will be hugs,Inside these four walls:soon there will be school corridors,Inside these four walls:soon there will be crowded places.Inside these four walls: not for much longer.Time Always Getting SlowerEvery day, time’s always getting slowerIs the clock even moving?Every time passes byIt’s getting slowerWhen was the last timeI was surrounded by people?Time is always getting slowerMy brain slows downas the hands make a clickWondering when the next one will occurAm I crazy or has time slowed down?I’m on an endless loopCyclingRepeatingLife will never be the same againI used to go shopping every weekIt’s been 6 monthsHaving to wear a maskKeeping hand sanitiser andstaying 2 meters awayFamily, friends have been separatedWill normality come?Shops are closedMarkets are downBusinesses have run outOnline is the new lifeShopping, eating, watching and communicatingAre all reliant on technologyShops are emptySoap and shampoo and tissues have run outNever thought this would happenIt has been so longFeeling like 1000 yearsBut now it’s finally coming to an end.Aaron Mankoo, Aisha Ansari and Abid Akhan(year 8)Jaskiran Bhuller (year 8)105
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A LEVEL RESULTS 2021Superb A Level
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SIXTH FORM #has helped me obtain an
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SCIENCE#including urban areas and c
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What is Love?(TWICE - What is Love?
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