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KINGSWOOD PREP IN FOCUS 2020-21 | DRAMA
DRAMA
The highlight of the year was... the musical ‘Beauty and the Beast.’
As for everyone, this has been another challenging year for the Drama department at KPS and we have had to think outside the box to make the most of the Drama curriculum in a socially distanced society. But, as ever, Drama has brought creativity, team work, adaptability and a lot of fun to the school lives of the children at KPS. AUTUMN TERM In the Autumn Term we normally run our ‘Poetry Out Loud’ competition and we were not to be deterred, despite the unusual circumstances. Every child in the Prep school is asked to learn a poem by heart and recite it to the rest of the class. Two representatives are then selected from each class to perform in an evening of Poetry to parents and staff. As this wasn’t able to take place, we decided to be a bit creative. The children, selected by their classes, were given the opportunity to create a video of their
poem. They could use costumes, props, video editing tool to be as creative as they could, wherever their imagination took them. The results really were remarkable. Each Year 6 class took on the huge challenge of performing a half hour version of a Shakespeare play. This year we chose Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet. They had to use the original Shakespearean text; not an easy task for children of their age, but they rose to the challenge and exceeded all my expectations!
