Category: Drama
Little Lyndhurst Perform
It is so nice to have an audience back for our nativity plays this year. On Thursday 2nd December Litle Lyndhurst performed their production of ‘The Innkeeper’s Breakfast’. The children performed magnificently, they sung the songs with enthusiasm and spoke all their lines clearly and loudly. The show was beautifully narrated by three donkeys and…
Drama – Mime with Year 5
Year 5 are studying Mime this half term. Mime is the art of portraying a character, mood, idea, or narration by gestures and bodily movements. They have studied the work of Marcel Marceau and Charlie Chaplin as well as the more recent work of Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean. The children have been learning the…
Drama – Developing a Character
Year 3 have been learning how to develop characters this half term in drama. They have used props, gestures and emotions to give their characters’ depth. This week they did a role on the wall exercise where they had to identify personality traits for their characters. They then improvised the characters meeting each other and…
Drama – Developing a Character
Year 3 have been learning how to develop characters this half term in drama. They have used props, gestures and emotions to give their characters’ depth. This week they did a role on the wall exercise where they had to identify personality traits for their characters. They then improvised the characters meeting each other and…
Drama – Rehearsals and Preparation
A busy week for the Drama department. Little Lyndhurst have been busy rehearsing their parts in the Nativity and Years 4 and 6 have already started working together on their musical production of ‘Olivia’ for the spring term. Year six are already familiar with the play as they were due to perform it in March…
Drama – Duologues
The topic of Year 4 this half term is duologues. They are working with different partners each week on short scripts for two actors. They have performed scripts titled A mermaid in the chip shop and The frog prince at the garden centre. This week they worked on a script called My friend is sad….
Drama – Let’s Pretend
Reception have been getting into the Halloween sprit in drama this week, when they explored the book ‘Room on the Broom’. They enjoyed being witches flying on their broomsticks, they then became the dragon and worked in groups to create their own swamp monsters, before going on to mix magic potions in their cauldrons. Finally,…
Drama – Year 3
Year 3 have been exploring how to turn a narrative into a performance this term, they have looked at taking a poem and developing it into a drama. They have been working on the poem ‘Matilda’ by Hilaire Belloc and have turned it into a wonderful comic play which they loved performing to each other.
Drama – Year 5
Year 5 are working on collaboration in drama this half term. Using both scripts and improvisations. This week they worked on a scripted performance titled ‘Cinderella the model’. Which is a different take on a traditional story. They had to work together as a group to rehearse and perform the piece. They learnt that everyone is equally important to the performance whichever…
Drama – What a term!
It has been a busy year in the drama department, despite lockdowns. The Autumn term saw nativity plays being performed by early years and years 1 & 2 both of which were filmed by Farnborough Technical college. LAMDA lessons continued online during the spring lockdown, and drama challenges were enjoyed by all the children. The…
