Subi Primary School- Year 4s Tanya and Jennie

The Go-Stop Game, a game about listening to instructions and moving bodies around the space, (Go-Stop, Jump- Clap and Boogie- Freeze). Then you add the bomb of it as “reverse day” and then play with it being about doing the reverse of the called out action. 

Filming our movement film- exploring the idea of what do we want to say about this issue? And different ways to express that to an audience. 

Popcorn Movement Brainstorm 

We had a poem about fast fashion printed out and sectioned into strips.

Each student picked a strip and found a space in the room with their journals. 

Have a one minute timer going with gentle music. 

1 - After picking out a strip of poetry, pick and circle one word that really speaks to you. 

2 - (Music turned up) Now see if you can present that word through your body (could be like the shapes of the letters or what the word is saying). 

3 - Now take a look again and underline another. 

4 - (Music turned up) Now create a still shape to portray that word. 

Then find a pair, in pairs they learnt each other's movements and then put them together in a sequence. We then wrote down our “super words” that stood out to us from the poem on a big bit of butcher's paper (I wasn't sure if we could use it in the movement ideas outside, was a good backup to have). 

We then headed outside with our donated clothing and ipads. 

We then worked out the spacing of the shot and the set of where to put the clothes, and played with different ways of filming it. Challenging ourselves doing something a bit different, and remaining integrity in the thinking of what we were trying to convey. 

They then had loads of ideas, and so we trialled/ brainstormed and then filmed their various ideas. It was amazing to have the class out there all together, and seeing them really problem solve and also listen and respect each other's ideas. 

After moving their bunting triangle to their chosen habit for today, they then, in their journals, created a shirt print, using either words or images to convey the habit, with the optional extra of the memory of the moments/tasks they felt they were really working within it.

Today was a massive success. We were so thankful we decided to keep the class altogether even with the forceable challenge of keeping them all engaged and interested. Was so thankful for Jennie really helping in that sense, e.g when I was listening to a few peoples ideas and gathering the concept, some of the kids just were beginning to grow wriggly, so she gave them the challenge of going and running around a goal post. Worked perfectly as when they were back we had a plan for the next shot and the students whose idea it was were able to communicate it to their classmates. 

They love the imaginative nature of the work we are doing, and also the idea of doing it together. I think they are just all so delightfully excited to continue to pursue new ideas of how to go about addressing what they think about this issue, as well as what they can do about it. 

Next session: Creating a box mountain that will be the same volume as their joint current clothing collection. We will then graffiti it with our facts, questions, and responses to this and film more of the video with them each having a mini whiteboard face shot with their individual curiosities or what they want to say about the topic. 

Lots of boxes

Probably need to source some coloured fabrics from REMida so we can start cutting our bunting triangles. 

Still looking for a pair of overalls second hand that are Jennies size so the kids can revamp it last CS session of term. 

Both Jennie and Gemma will be presenting their projects/ what they have been doing in CS to the rest of the staff team at some point.