Storytelling and Performance – Term 2 Week 2

This week, students have been enjoying a variety of provocations into storytelling, with a focus on performance. They are developing their understanding of character development through puppet making, building their understanding of performance through using finger puppets in the performance space, and working on scripts and stories in the learning commons. Students are also interested in creating scenes, sets and backdrops in the studio and construction space that support their story telling. Many are enjoying collaborating and sharing their ideas with each other by working in pairs and small groups.

We are continuing our ‘Storytelling Incursions’ in the neighbourhood. We would love for more members of our community and families to share their own ‘stories’ from their lives with us. This ‘story’ could come from a significant event or experience in your life, for example a special holiday, moving house or cities/countries, arriving somewhere new, starting/changing jobs, a memory with a special person or pet in your life, learning a new skill, something unusual or funny that has happened to you – the possibilities are endless! We expect that your story would be about 5-10 minutes long (you may want to think about ‘setting’, ‘characters’ and beginning, middle and end, or problem/resolution for the ‘plot’ of your story, and how the situation or experience made you feel), with then about 5 minutes of question time afterwards for the students. Please get in touch if you would like to share a story with us by emailing years12n2@phps.vic.edu.au so that we can include you in our ‘Storytelling Schedule’ for the upcoming few weeks. Parent/family volunteers for our ‘Storytelling Incursions’ must have current WWC that has been sighted and recorded by admin at the front office.