Salamanca 2014
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- Written by Senorita Smith Senor Rowland Senorita Wade
What a tremendously fantastic and busy week we had in Salamanca!
What a tremendously fantastic and busy week we had in Salamanca!
Congratulations to the winners of the poetry competition. Ist place went to Noah Downs Brown 8SWI, 2nd place went to Daniel Rattenbury 7LD and 3rd place went to Nathan Geddes 7LD.
The Poppy by Noah Downs Brown
Congratulations to Bryony Jay in year 7, who is now a three times national champion in Twirling. Bryony competes with the NBTA (National Baton Twirling Association) and during half term holidays she competed in Devon Torba.
Whilst there Bryony performed exceptionally well and is now a National Champion in:
U13 Solo National Champion
U13 Pon pom National Champion
Juvenile Dance formation team National Champion
Bryony twirls with a team called First impressions based in Gillingham and trains for 6 hours every Sunday, she also trains in her own time and is very committed to her sport. This is a outstanding achievement for this determined and talented young girl.
On the 2nd October, Mrs O’Shea, Mrs Golding and I took a trip to Stratford Upon Avon to begin our training with RSC Practitioners, Miles Tandy and Rachel Gartside. All extremely excited, we couldn’t wait to arrive at the RSC Clore learning centre early Friday morning. The first play we looked at approaching was Love’s Labour’s Won(Much Ado About Nothing.) The active learning strategies were great fun and we loved working with the teachers from other Hub schools. On Friday evening, we were able to see the preview performance of Love’s Labour’s Won at the RSC Theatre which was set in Warwickshire in 1918. It was a fantastic performance and by seeing the play live, we developed a much better understanding of characters, plot and themes. Saturday morning we begun with reviewing the play that we had seen and discussing the moments we remembered, just as students would do. We then begun to look at ways of approaching Two Gentlemen of Verona, activities included: creating tableaus for key quotations, listening to music to set the scene, chasing a dog around a table and exploring themes of the play.