Playscripts

As part of our work on Narrative we have been looking at the Caribbean story Bre-Nancy and the 13 Plantains. Some children have had a go at adapting the story and producing a play script. Here is Savannah's excellent effort.

Bre-Nancy and the 13 chicken wing

Scene 1: In a tatty old cottage with 12 kids, 1 wife, 1 husband and no food to eat.

Child: Mammy mi hungry, mi belly rumblin.

Ma-Nancy: (to Bre-Nancy) Go get thi pickney some food fi eat and don't come back if ya nu have no food.

Bre-Nancy: Cha man me gwan get some food fi mi pickney and mi self cha man. (walks out angrily)

Scene 2: Walking down a dusty path Bre-Nancy kissing his teeth.

Bre-Nancy: Why can't Ma-Nancy get her lazy bones up and gwan get her and her pickney them own food. Cha man. (furiously)

Bre-Bush Rat approaches.

Bre-Nancy: What's up neighbour, ya OK?

Bre-Bush Rat: Ye man mi kool mi just get paid 13 piece of chicken wing an' mi kool that mi get mi chicken wing. Mi get it by working on the fields weekly.

Bre-Nancy: If mi help yu on thi field weekly would ya give mi ya 13 piece of chicken wing for mi pickney and wife, mi beg yu? (desperately)

Bre-Bush Rat: Of course ya can. Later Bre-Nancy.

Scene 3: Bre-Nancy is on the way back home with a lot of food, he is excited.

Ma-Nancy: Mi hope ya got the food cos if not mi nah no where yu a go!

Bre-Nancy: Yes yes Ma-Nancy mi have food so let me come in.

Ma-Nancy: Nuh rush mi, no one rush Ma-Nancy.

Bre-Nancy: OK! (shouting) Here ya go pickney see ya food de.

Scene 4: In the house eating.

Child: Um mm this is di life time. Umm this chicken so nice.

Bre-Nancy sits there sad, he puts a sad face on looking upset.

Ma-Nancy: (to Bre-Nancy) Why di cry face? Ohhh mi sorry ya have no food, here have piece of mine.

Bre-Nancy: No no no! You eat it.

Child: Daddy ya no have no food. Have half of mine.

Child 2: Here have half of mine too Daddy.

Child 3: And mine!

All the children give Bre-Nancy half of their chicken

Bre-Nancy: Umm mmm mmm. (Nancy finishes off the chicken)

Ma-Nancy: Yu so greedy look at you! How much food yu have fi nam? (shouted)

Bre-Nancy: Half add a another half add another half make..... yu know Math was never mi strong point. (confused) Oh well sorry everyone. (laughing)

Class full of Posers!

This half term we have been extremely fortunate, we have had the pleasure of Miss Sutton coming in every Friday morning to do some Art work with us. The theme of our Art work is Art in Motion. Miss Sutton has taught us how to use various textiles to present our work. Children have used various technologies to capture either themselves or figures in motion. Some children took photographs of or video recorded each other performing various actions. Other children used 3D animation software, Poser, to create short animations and take stills from these. These were then used as stimulus for the art work. Children tried to replicate various stages of the movements on felt. Here are some pictures of the work.

Presenting Prezi!

This week in Literacy we have been studying biographies. Children have been able to use various sources to research a famous person. They then had a go at presenting their information in a multimedia format. Children used Web 2.0 tool Prezi to present their ideas. Here is Khalid and Simon's work on Dennis Bergkamp.

title on Prezi

Fiction Genres

Over the last week children have planned and written their own stories in a genre of their choice. Here are the efforts of Lawrence and Jeremiah.

 

Fiction Genres

This week in Literacy we have continued to study fiction genres. Children have been attempting to use a series of events to write short paragraphs in different genres. Here is Azizah's effort. Can you tell which genre she is writing in each time?

A journey home from school

The school bell rang it was home time. Everyone rushed out of the classroom door and grabbed their coats and bags. We were just about to leave but then the wizard teacher, who was grooming his long white beard called us all back. “Wait you have to take your homework you must all learn all these spells by tomorrow for the big test.”Oh no I thought to myself just as soon as we all had got really excited. All the children took their homework and quickly ran out of the classroom and ran out of school . I skipped merrily out of the building and across the playground. I saw a group of young wizards siting down in little groups of six and practicing their homework spells. I ran out of the playground and out to the corner shop. I couldn't see the shopkeeper. I went and chose my best sweets and went to the till and suddenly out popped a small wood troll. The wood troll who was very short said “ £1.00 please” I gave him the money and sprinted out of the shops and onto the pavements. Out on the roads there were 1000s and 1000s of wood trolls they all seemed to be coming the same way as me. As fast as lightning I ran back and into my house.

I grabbed my books and pens and ran out of the classroom with my friends. Today had been a very weird and strange day there were two men following me and my friends round school all day. I sprinted across the playground with my friends and out of the school gates . The two men were still following me at first I thought that they were meant to be in school as security because our school was always getting broken into but now they they were following me out of the school gates .The two men were still following us down the road they were wearing black shades and a black suit with blue ties. There was a corner shop right by our school and all the kids went there. I went into the shops and bought a load of bubblegum for me and my friends. I paid for my sweets and quickly got out of the shop as it was very crowded. The two men were had caught my friends and were holding them by the arm. “ we are detectives there has been a murder at your neighbors house do you know anything about this?” “no I don't know I have been at school all day now can you please let go of my friends” I said . “ of course but we will have to talk to your parents”.