My teacher wanted me to run the school item for assembly and this was a very exciting and nerve racking experience. The school item was based on creating a play based on the English book they had been going through as a class. This would be the first time teaching Drama and the book they were reading was 'Little Red Rocket'.
An idea that my co-operating teacher had thought of was bringing in characters like the wiggles, dr who, the darleck, a dinosaur, satellite, and a student playing the role of a teacher. Some of these characters being random characters not from the book. Who'd pop onto stage depending on the scene of the story.
My co-operating teacher had created the play and did the majority of creating the costumes of a space rocket, the big red car, satellite and the darleck. The rest of the costumes were borrowed from the school. So for two days straight I would be rehearsing the play and letting the students familiarise themselves with their roles. This was hard as at time students would become too excited which results in misbehaving and acting inappropriately. It was also difficult controlling those student who would wait offstage whilst aiding students who'd be on stage.
My co-operating teacher had created the play and did the majority of creating the costumes of a space rocket, the big red car, satellite and the darleck. The rest of the costumes were borrowed from the school. So for two days straight I would be rehearsing the play and letting the students familiarise themselves with their roles. This was hard as at time students would become too excited which results in misbehaving and acting inappropriately. It was also difficult controlling those student who would wait offstage whilst aiding students who'd be on stage.
Friday morning was the day of the assembly where we'd have to run the school item. We had the chance to rehearse it once because of time restraints and students mucking up. My class had ran the assembly as well on Friday so we quickly assigned roles for teachers to hand names and which students would help hand awards and read certain sentences on the sheet provided. Also making sure that the projector in the hall had worked where Little Red Rocket would be displayed on the big overhead for the audience to follow.
The item came on and I assigned my self off stage to help the other characters who would be lined outside of the hall waiting for their ques. The main reason why my teacher and I thought this would be best suitable was because a lot of the students who were outside needed to be quiet and well behaved in order for the audience to be able to hear the performance on stage.
All in all the play went well and I thought that the muck ups that did occur, for example there was a delay of one student having trouble with his peer to put the dinosaur suit on and arrived late rushing on to stage and also the satellite not being able to fit through the door to exit off-stage. But this created the humour for the audience who thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
All in all the play went well and I thought that the muck ups that did occur, for example there was a delay of one student having trouble with his peer to put the dinosaur suit on and arrived late rushing on to stage and also the satellite not being able to fit through the door to exit off-stage. But this created the humour for the audience who thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
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