Last week I was a part of the collaboration process of getting the Te Aroha focus together. As a team, we discussed what our learners could share with the rest of the school. Their are a few unspoken rules about putting on a focus and one of the main ones is: Do not repeat what another team has done! This is pretty self-explanatory and the majority of Te Aroha learners wanted to present something completely new.
Our team teachers collaborated and came up with a range of ideas to present to our respective rooms and hand over ownership to the learners.
Room 9 were really excited to work on skits that retold Berkley's 2016 events/adventures. Together, the learner's and I decided to focus on three different skits: The evacuation; The Culinary Challenge; Market Day.
Collaboration and communication were the key to successfully creating the scripts and making sure as many learners from room 9 were participating. There were a range of ways learners could participate, such as: technicians (working on lighting and sounds); props (bringing on and removing props from the stage); hosts etc
I was really pleased with the way most groups came together, shared their ideas and bought the scripts to life. The organisation was quite stressful! Rachel created a really fantastic video, along with backing music, that showed images of Te Aroha learners throughout the year, and events that the whole school participated in.
Rachel taught Sarah and I how to insert audio and videos into a powerpoint. Sarah and I worked together to add suitable images/audio/videos for the backdrops (projected onto a white wall in the Cultural Centre).
Te Aroha learners pulled off a really funny, attention grabbing Focus. There were loads of laughs, and moments that other learners could relate to.
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