Hear My Voice Citizens Theatre Learning

ALEXANDRA PARADE PRIMARY SCHOOL & WHITEHILL SECONDARY SCHOOL

HEAR MY VOICE

INTRODUCTION Pupils from Alexandra Parade Primary School and Whitehill Secondary School in Glasgow have been participating in a project called HEAR MY VOICE with the Citizens Theatre.

The pupils have taken part in fun drama, creative writing and storytelling activities with staff from the theatre’s Learning team.

Initially the pupils worked in separate groups, then all three groups joined up and participated together. The pupils encouraged each other, learned from each other and enjoyed working collaboratively.

This book contains photographs and pieces of writing that were created during the academic year 2019 - 2020.

We have thoroughly enjoyed working with the wonderful pupils and staff on this project!

Angela and Carly (Citizens Theatre)

PAPER PUPPETS

MY PLACE, MY SPACE

THE GOOD

THE BAD

There are good places to eat

There’s always dog poo on the pavement

Football pitches where I meet my friends

At night you can hear drunk people shouting on the street

I can see the RAPA from my window There are always balls stuck in the nettles at the park to play with When they have festivals at Glasgow Green I can watch from my window

When you are out walking there are scary back lanes with no lights Late at night people sometimes press your buzzer and it wakes you up There is lots of litter on the street

You can find lots of places to climb It’s easy to find things you’ve lost

You have to walk up lots of stairs to get anywhere The buses take ages to arrive

The shop sells good sweets There are too many dogs

BEHIND THE MASK

I LOVE / I LIKE...

I love my friends even though we have fights we get through it.

I love London, London just everything about! I have good memories from my holiday there with my Dad. I like to read because it is amazing and my bag has way too many books in it.

I love animals because they make people very happy deserve to live as much as you do I like NFL it is fun to watch and play. I am a quarter back I love my family because they protect me and look out for me I love winning races because it makes me feel happy I like scary rides sometimes… I guess, but they are… fun?

I HATE / I DISLIKE...

I hate trying to sleep with my brother, he pesters me for ages and keeps me awake!

I hate chicken because of the texture and the taste – ugh I don’t like Tesco pizza, pizza it has too much cheese I hate that some dogs are homeless, they deserve a home I hate Boris Johnston, Johnston he is annoying I hate global warming because it is literally burning our world I hate chocolate ice cream because it tastes and looks disgusting I hate that I can’t see my sister because I can speak to her about anything and trust her

OUR STORIES

OUR STORIES

I LOVE, I LIKE , I HATE

A PRINCESS IN THE FLESH-EATING FOREST RUDY, COLE AND ETHAN Once upon a time, there was a witch who lived across from a beautiful princess in a flesh-eating forest. The princess went out for a drive on her new dog motorbike that was bought for a good bargain price. While driving a washing machine with arms and legs hit her on the head and destroyed the bike. The flesh-eating trees, in the flesh-eating forest ate all of her of her smooth beautiful skin. When she went home, nobody believed that she was the beautiful princess. The witch said, ‘I will give you your skin back under one condition… you tell me where you got your cheap motorbike from!!’

ANDREW, CODY, SOPHIE AND NATHAN Once upon a time a Princess was trapped in a tower, she ran into the tower for safety, but the flesh-eating forest had become so overgrown that she was trapped inside for days. The Princess had a dog called Bingo and realised she had been gone for long time and decided to go look for her.

Bingo went through the forest and could see the Princess at the window. He battled through the trees and found the key. The princess was so happy to see Bingo that she hugged him and said ‘thank you for saving me’

ANDREW, CODY, SOPHIE AND NATHAN Once upon a time there was a dog on a motorbike.

It was a sunny day so the dog decided to go a drive on his motorbike. The dog was on the side of a mountain and his bike broke down and he went flying over the handle bars and ended up in a flesh eating forest. He then ran all the way back home as quickly as he could. When he got home he was really hungry so ordered a extra large Dominos pizza for himself. So greedy.

SAFAA, MACELLA AND ROSIE Once upon a time in a fair away land, the pizza monster kidnapped and trapped the princess in flesh-eating forest. She was screaming and a nearby giraffe heard her and saved her life. She slid down the giraffe’s neck and fell into a pizza and went home and washed the pizza stains off her clothing in the washing machine.

WHO WOULD WEAR A HAT LIKE THIS?

A NEW CITY

ACTING OUT STORIES

TIKTOK HAND EMOJI CHALLENGE

SIX WORD STORIES

SOPHIE THE ZOOKEEPER

Written by Sophie, Rosie, Rudy and Harvey Sophie is a zookeeper. One day on earth, Sophie was walking about to eat a burger until she stopped after hearing an unknown nose. It was a lizard, running about.

Sophie ran after it yelling, ‘Get back here, lizard, get back here now!’ over and over again. Sophie stopped and accidentally stepped on the Lizard’s tail. Sophie was scared.

She picked it up and said, ‘Lizard, I’m so sorry’. The lizard looked into Sophie’s eyes, grabbed her burger, and ran out of the gate saying ‘cheers for the burger matey.’ Sophie looked to the gates, waved goodbye, and said, ‘I can’t believe that happened.’ Sophie tried to tell her friend the story, but she wouldn’t believe what had happened.

THE GREAT MATCH

Written by Cole, Cody and James Once upon a time on planet earth, there was a school, not any school – it was called Alexandra Parade Primary School. The football team was getting ready for the match, not any match; if they won this match, they would each get a special medal. They were against Golfhill Primary School. This would be the match of a lifetime! The match had started, each team had a lot of possession of the ball.

Suddenly there was a penalty to Alexandra Parade Primary School.. will they win?

MACAELLA’S CATEGORY GAME

WORKING TOGETHER

THE PIRATE SHIP

Written by Andrew, Ethan and Salman Once upon a time, a pirate ship jumped on board somebody else’s ship and then stole a treasure chest and a key. The ship then broke down, and they got stuck in the middle of the sea. Then there was a hole in the boat. The boat started to sink. The pirates decided to open the chest with a key. Inside they found a dead rat and a giant rubber ring. They took the ring out and used it to float to the shore.

On the way home, they found a dolphin and took it home. They put the dolphin in a big swimming pool. The dolphin loved living at the swimming pool because he had lots of space to swim, and the pirates fed him lots of fish and seeds.

A BEE IN THE GARDEN SHOP Written by Safaa, Macealla and Harris

A bee came into the garden shop and strung the gardener on the arm. He screamed, ‘Ow!’ and yelled, ‘Help me!’. The gardener was seriously hurt. Another customer who was in the shop noticed what was happening.

His name was Bob Cole. He’d been in to buy a shovel. Bob Cole gave the gardener a rose and said, ‘eat this.’ So he ate it after a few minutes the garden felt amazing, his pain was gone.

HAVING FUN TOGETHER

A TRIP TO THE THEATRE

WRAPPED UP PARCELS

FROZEN PICTURES

A TREASURE HUNT

CREATING STORIES

THANK YOU! Pupils - we hope you’ve enjoyed taking part in the HEAR MY VOICE project. We’ve certainly enjoyed working with you all. During the project you’ve made new friends, visited a different school and visited a theatre.

This project is called HEAR MY VOICE and we hope that you have been encouraged to use your voices, to express your feelings and opinions and to share your wonderful creativity with others.

We hope you choose to treasure this book and show it to those who are close to you, so they too can enjoy seeing all the wonderful activities you have done.

We’d like to thank Sheena Lamont and Fiona Higgins for allowing us to work with you and for joining in with each session so whole-heartedly, Karen, Megan and ? for taking part with such enthusiasm, all the class teachers for allowing us to take you out of your classes for the sessions, and finally YOU for being so willing to join in with all the crazy things we suggested. We’ve loved working with you!

We’d also like to thank our funders The Ragdoll Foundation, The Gannochy Trust and The Robertson Trust. Without their support this project would not have been able to happen.

Angela and Louise (Citizens Theatre)