Today we started the university workshops in Alexandra Junior School. As we will have the same group of children every Friday, Rosie and I decided to create a continuous workshop for them. Here is a brief plan of the objectives and activities of the 5 workshops:CREATING A WORLD
First workshop
Create the land, the name for the land, the people, the tribes, and decide who will become part of each tribe.
Create the land, the name for the land, the people, the tribes, and decide who will become part of each tribe.
Second workshop
Get into tribes and decide the details of each tribe, how they eat, drink, their powers, their job in the land, their clothes, and their relationship with the other tribes...
Get into tribes and decide the details of each tribe, how they eat, drink, their powers, their job in the land, their clothes, and their relationship with the other tribes...
Third workshop
Get into tribes and create the story of the beginning of the tribe, how it became to exist, any myths, and if it turns out to happen any kind of religious beliefs the tribe would have.
Get into tribes and create the story of the beginning of the tribe, how it became to exist, any myths, and if it turns out to happen any kind of religious beliefs the tribe would have.
Fourth workshop
Get 2 tribes together and create a story including the 2 cultures.
Get 2 tribes together and create a story including the 2 cultures.
Fifth workshop
All the tribes together create a story for the land.
All the tribes together create a story for the land.
From today’s workshop we got some amazing material and very positive results from the children. We started by playing games, but then we explained exactly what we were going to do for the 5 workshops and they were very enthusiastic with the idea.
The land is called MOONAKA
The land has: coconut trees, a long river, grass, trees, a forest, stars, dark colours, animals, sand, a lot of cheese, a big house/tower in the middle, palm trees, 3 moons, a fountain, dark sky, some kind of division in the land, statues, people, ships in the river, river creatures, cheese fairies, a cheese house, a massive guest house, a garden with lots of flowers, mummies in the night, ice cream, when it rains it rains sweets and finally it has blue birds.
Who rules the land: as a democratic decision, Mylee Cyrus became the ruler of the land and lives in an RnB Castle.
The Tribes: there were 25 tribes’ ideas, goblins, soldiers, robots, fairies, elves, witches, aliens, genies, emperors, RnB tribe, cheese tribe, Pokémon, servants, magicians, wizards, ghosts, unicorns, vampires, water nymphs, gangsters, Pikachu’s, Romans, candy tribe, pink panthers and penguins.
After a very hard voting process we decided on 4 tribes, them being the Water Nymphs, the Candy Tribe, the Pink Panthers and the RnB Tribe.
The children were divided into groups and collectively decided which tribe to be. So next week, let the fun begin...
1 comment:
I think that this workshop sounds awesome and the creatve team has started thinking about culture and celebrating culture in our story. I am leading workshop no. 2 tomorrow and will hopefully come up with some brilliant ideas ffrom the kids! well done!
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