WOW TOP DAY

I've just had one of the best days at work.

We have a drama company called Wildest Dreams in at school this term. They are working with all the classes and there will be a whole school production at the end of term.

I was with Year 3 and Year 4 this morning for their sessions.
The drama guys, QJ!!!! and Chris got them using their imaginations with a paper towel. Pretending it was a different object at miming to the rest of the class.

We then split into small groups and had to make up a story using the paper towel.

With the Yr3 class I was with 4 very imaginative girls. They decided that I should be a wicked king. The king was hungry and sent his daughter, the princess obviously, out to kill a unicorn for his dinner. The unicorn was where we used the paper towel, rolled up as a horn and held in place by a hairclip!

The princess didn't want to kill the unicorn but I stamped my feet and made her. LOL.

So she goes off into the forest and shoots the unicorn with her arrow. Then falls to the ground distraught. Then 2 fairies fly down and use their magic to remove the arrow and make the Unicorn come back to life. All hug.

I then ride up on my horse, furious that I'm still hungry.
The princess and the fairies turn and shoot me dead! I fall to the ground.

The fairies then realise that they will lose their powers as they have killed someone and fall to their knees and holf their faces.

The End.

btw it was all done as a mime.


2nd Play is with Yr4 (my class)

I'm with 2 boys(slightly disruptive pupils) and 1 girl.

It's School sports day and William the magician is going to do a magic trick to open the proceedings.
He asks for a volunteer from the audience. Me. (Me Sir, Pick Me Sir, Me Sir) Arm waiving like a tree in a hurricane.

He then tells me & audience that he's going to turn me into a monkey.
I lie down and he casts the spell. Usng the rolled up paper towel as a magic wand After a bit of thrashing about on the floor I jump up and run around the audience making monkey noises etc etc.

I then dissapear behind a curtain. Magician says " Phew thank god that monkey's gone, we best get the races underway before he returns. So other 2 pupils who have been warming up get into their starting positions.

As Go is shouted I leap out from behind the curtain and chase the runners.


And... I get paid to do this....