Year 7 and Year 9: The Globe Theatre & The Clink Prison Museum
For their City Curriculum Day, Year 7 and Year 9 enjoyed a day out to The Globe and The Clink Prison Museum. In the morning they enjoyed a guided tour of The Globe followed by drama workshops on the texts that they are studying in their English lessons. After a fun morning they then headed over to the Clink Prison Museum. Our guided tour was both terrifying and informative. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed their day. Huge thanks go to Masilya in Year 7 for collating the following comments from her classmates and giving the trip a ️
“My favourite thing was when we went to the prison and we learnt about the prisoners who got trapped there and how long ago that was”.
Florence
“My favourite thing is when we did the Shakespeare acting workshop because it was fun”.
Scarlett
“My favourite thing was the prison because we got to see the wax figures, I thought it was cool and interesting!”
Olive
“My favourite thing was the acting workshop because we got to do performances of A Midsummer Night’s Dream”.
Madison
“My favourite thing was the Clink prison because I learnt more about history”.
Hoor
“My favourite thing was knowing how much it was in The Globe theatre to get a seat and get a cushion”.
Lillia
“My favourite thing was the stage at The Globe and we got to see how the actors performed.
Samantha
“My favourite thing was when we did the acting workshop because it was very fun and I got to play funny characters”.
Masilya
“My favourite thing was when we went to the Clink prison and I got handcuffed, it was very funny and I enjoyed it a lot”.
Lily
“My favourite thing was when we went to The Clink Prison to see how people got tortured!”
Isabela HS
“My favourite thing was in the Clink Prison when I got to sit in the execution chair!”
Claudia
“My favourite thing was when we were at The Globe and we learnt how much everything cost and where everyone would sit and to see how many times it has been built”.
Alex
Year 8: The Natural History Museum
Our Year 8 cohort were treated with a day at the Natural History Museum, where they got to investigate the science behind earthquakes and volcanoes, their impacts as well as understand some of the strategies and technology that help reduce the destructive effects of these natural hazards.
Year 10 and Year 12: The 10-Shot Film Challenge
As part of the City Curriculum Day, Year 10 and 12 students worked on a project-based learning task with Ed from the One Day Film School.
They learned about types of shots, editing techniques and responsibilities of different roles in the film industry and then explored one of Polti’s 5 Dramatic premises to create a short film. Each group had a Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Actors and Camera crew. They were seen gallivanting all over the school building their films and they produced some outstanding final pieces featuring several outstanding staff cameos and brilliant performance and technical work from the girls themselves. At 3.00pm we held an Oscars award ceremony. The standard was very high, so after deliberation between the judges, the following prizes were awarded:
Best Actor: Katya (Year 10)
Best Technical Achievement: ‘For Sale’ Tavy (Year 12), Farley (Year 12), Elisa (Year 12), Matilde (Year 10), Lailou (Year 10), Sophia (Year 10), Kayta (Year 10)
Best Picture: ‘If Looks Could Kill’ – Saffron (Year 12), Daria (Year 12), Eenes (Year 12), Sarah (Year 10), Natalie (Year 10), Gabby (Year 10)
The judges were particularly impressed by the excellent performances and high standard of camerawork, editing and sound design. Congratulations to the winning teams – hope to see you at the (real) Oscars!
