Wednesday 20th January

Today was a peculiar day as a large majority of us had a GCSE Science: Physics exam at 8.50 so we had to have our usual morning talk without them, which Miss Hoad then repeated to them when they returned to the classroom once the test had finished.

We were given a sheet which we were to write our day plan on (which wasn't completely followed as the day stretched on). Once we had finished talking as a group we went onto the Apple Macs and created our new blogs on 'Blogger' which we found was much easier to use and much more efficient than the previously used software 'Wix' that everyone had been using beforehand.

In the second hour of the day we met up with Mrs Murphy and Mrs Harris, from Administration, Mr Sutton who is in charge of Adult Education, the Nursery and Health & Safety and Mr Beadell who is in charge of the Performing Arts project that I mentioned in my previous blog. Because we were all working sufficiently on our blogs and because Miss Hoad was having doubts about the scale of the Performing Arts Festival project she had the meeting with all four of the guests, instead of all of the Diploma students and her.

After break we moved onto our second task of the day, which would last up until lunch time, to do research on our artefact unit. We were to research the use of theatrical props, how objects are made and what different resources are used. eg. masquerade masks for Romeo and Juliet... made out of cardboard or plastic? These are the sort of decisions we must consider. We also needed to create a photo diary of the process of making our props and costumes, for evidence and a record on what we have done.

In the last half hour of the day Nikki began to sort out the make-up for our Genie of the Lamp (played by Michael Liggit), for Wishy Washy (played by Lewis Benfield) and for our drag queen, Widow Twanky (played by Ben Knight) before we rummaged through the bin bags that contained all of the costumes and dressed them in their correct costume. Once Ben Knight was dressed and his make-up and wig were perfected we took photos of him for our photo diary which will hopefully be in my next post.

Once the bell rang for the end of the school day our Abanaza (played by Alex Cusack) and Won Ton (played by Luke Davis) came into the classroom and we sorted out their costumes and make up (making them look BEAUTIFUL!!). Once everyone was ready we made our way down to the school hall to film the scenes which included Abanaza, Wishy Washy, Won Ton and Widow Twanky (although Widow Twanky was unneeded throughout the half hour of filming that we managed to get done, but she... or he? looked stunning anyway!).