We have been busy as ever at BYT this term, with every class working on their own project - we are off on holiday for a week so now is an ideal time to reflect on what we've been up to.
Our P1-2 class have been writing a short musical about Mr Skinny and his amazing, disappearing hat, whilst our P3-5 class have been devising a play based on the idea of 'The Land of Lost Things'.
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| P3-5 work on The Land of Lost Things |
Marianne has been working closely with the young people to create an entirely original script based on the ideas of the class. Today we started to get the show on it's feet and, as you can see from these pictures, it's already looking very exciting!
Our P6-7 class have been doing the same exercises and have ended up with a play called 'The Dog-Ship Enterprise'. We have spent the last couple of weeks looking at movement and how we can incorporate some exciting balancing exercises into the show.
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| Lauren and Katie show us a fantastic balancing exercise |
The next few weeks will also be about getting the show up on its feet and we hope to be able to show it to parents sometime soon.
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| It can sometimes be quite scary when you're the one who's unbalanced! |
Our seniors have been working on a show called 'Make Your Mark'. This is a really exciting project that will take place on the 6th and 7th of December. It's based on a book called Sum: Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman (you can read more about it
here) and we hope it will be a fitting show to say goodbye to the Arts Guild once and for all. The show will be in the Wallace Bennett theatre, which is appropriate as that has been the home of BYT (and formerly GYT) since we started.
So that's where we are just now, we hope that we can take some of the ideas from our classes to create a large-scale show for all our young people to take part in early next year. This will be the first BYT show on the new Beacon stage, it's going to be really exciting!
