Arts @ HCPS

We thought you’d like to know about the latest Shakespeare broadcast on CBeebies due to be shown this Easter Friday!

CBeebies Shakespeare Special – The Tempest

A magical island, a stormy shipwreck and a royal mystery!

Following on from CBeebies A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Steven Kynman is back as William Shakespeare, this time with backstage help from Swashbuckle’s Captain Captain. Andy Day takes on the fantastical Shakespearean role of the island monster Caliban, while Justin Fletcher is the king’s comical jester, Trinculo. With Patrick Robinson as Prospero and Annette Badland as his good friend Gonzala, CBeebies The Tempest brings together an amazing cast to perform one of Shakespeare’s best-loved plays.

Set on an island not far from Italy, the play tells the story of Prospero, one-time Duke of Milan, who lives with his daughter Miranda, their monster servant Caliban and a magical, musical and mostly invisible sprite called Ariel. Having been sent away from Milan 12 years earlier by his own brother, Sebastian, and King Alonso, Prospero has spent his time on the island practising his magic, studying and plotting for a time when he can take revenge. That moment has arrived. All his enemies are aboard a ship sailing near the island and it is the perfect time for Prospero’s plan.

Creating a magical storm with his sprite Ariel, Prospero causes a shipwreck, landing the king and his lords, ladies, butler and jester all over the island. Slowly Prospero weaves his magic to fulfil his plan, with Ariel carrying out many of his tasks, before eventually forgiving all those who did him wrong.

Filmed at the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, in front of a live invited audience, CBeebies The Tempest is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare for families and preschoolers, with the most famous moments from Shakespeare’s original text surrounded by magic, music and mischief.

Rehearsals are going really well for our June performance of The Tempest.

After Easter we will be starting our dress rehearsals with full props and costume.

Here are a few photographs from Friday’s rehearsal.

In Year One we have been looking at the different Creation stories from around the world. This week we discussed the Aborigine Creation Story and how the Aborigine people of Australia have a very different view to Christians.

We looked at how the native Australian animals play a big part in these stories and how this is shown in Aboriginal artwork.

From this we chose to develop our dot painting skills as seen in a lot of Aboriginal artwork.

After we had practised these skills we chose to develop them by creating our own Australian animal dot paintings.

This is the outcome of our skill building and resilience to achieve a really effective outcome!

What do you think?

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Tonight we have cast the parts for The Tempest, which will be performed in June 2018 at The Lamproom Theatre.  We have started to read through the script and work out what Shakespeare’s language means. Keep checking on our progress over the next few months. 

The painting in the car park is finished. It looks fabulous. Thank you to all the children and staff who worked so hard.  The designs reflect the learning the children have done on the subject ‘celebrating differences’.

The children have finished a variety of projects, so keep watching out for the photos of these as they go up around school.  Have a look at the Foundation Stage blog to see what wonderful activities they have been doing. 

What did you enjoy doing this week?

The car park is really progressing. Tomorrow the finishing touches will be added.

This morning we have started to create our diversity car park spaces.

Hopefully NCP will take on the idea!

More updates to follow!

Day two of Arts Week and the children are working hard on their tasks. The painting of the car park has started. Keep looking back to see the progress of the painting.

After learning collage skills yesterday, it was time to begin our own unique, personal collage.

More photographs to follow!