Tuesday 23rd September 2014 - Thursday 25th September 2014

Thursday 25th September 2014

In the afternoon, Sharron had instructed us to get into groups of 6 people and each group would be in charge, taking turns to be a teacher co-ordinating exercises to warm up a class.

Andreia's group went first.  They instructed us to get into one single line and the person in front would start off a movement which would then be copied by the person behind them. Ideally the group was aiming for a domino affect when copying the movement but when they was explaining, the class was hectic and not listening very well to instruction and was looking at the person at the beginning of the line instead of the person at the front.
As our class is quite big, people did get quite impatient because it wasn't over until everyone had, had a turn and wanted to move onto the next exercise. 

 I thought the exercise was quite interesting and fun but began to get tedious to continue. It would be better with a smaller group rather than a large group such as ours.
This game is useful to involve everyone's contribution and they have to say yes.  As it was the first game and we had come back from lunch, it was good to have started off with this game first as it helped us prepare for the games to come and made us want to get involve with everything.

The next group was Grace's.  Their exercise was 'Cat and Mouse'.  Grace explained that everyone is to be in pairs and link up and spread about the room.  Two people, one cat, the other mouse, had to chase each other around the room and people and to avoid getting caught had to link someone at random.  The person they had linked stays while the other person that was already adjoined becomes the mouse and has to avoid the cat.  If the cat however catches you, the cat becomes the mouse resulting in the mouse becoming the cat.
This game was very fun to play, and everyone seemed to have enjoyed it, however the disadvantage to this game was that not everyone got a chance to be the mouse and just remained a link.  If we did go out to a school and did this, there probably would be favouritism and avoidance within the group.

The next group was Jade's group.  Their game was 'Zip, Zap, Boing'.  We all had to stand in a circle, and hold our hands together in a prayer form, to pass the zip around you had to turn your body to face the person either side you and say 'Zip'.  To reject the 'Zip' which resulted in the person turning back around and giving the 'Zip to the other person at their side you said 'Boing'.  If you wanted to send the 'Zip' to someone else anywhere in the circle other than at your side, then you sent a 'Zap'.  You can 'Boing' a 'Zap' and a 'Zip' but not a 'Boing'.  The aim of the game is to keep the 'Zip' going, failure to do so by a person cause the person to sit out making the circle smaller till there is only one winner left.

Danielle's group was Duck, Duck, Goose.  This is a traditional game and we was all very happy to play this game.  The aim of the game is to all sit in a circle, tapping on each person's head while saying 'duck' until one person is chosen by saying 'goose'.  When the 'Goose' is chosen, the person is to chase and catch the picker before they get to the 'Goose's seat'.  If successful,the 'Goose' gets to sit back down, however failure to catch the picker results in the 'Goose' becoming the new picker, thus continuing the game.  We made sure everyone had been chosen to show equality and fairness.

Overall the class was very hectic and people weren't listening when they should've been.  I feel we need to improve on our listening skills and learning to respect one another when talking.  Despite this, we do come up with great ideas, and do get the work done, but would get more done if we all respected each other while someone is talking.

We then moved onto working on the Tomorrow Project (see Donmar Blog).