Let's MOVE!

On Thursday morning we had a movement workshop for English drama. This workshop was organised by Ms C. The two classes were together in the hall for the workshop. Class Emnet have a double English period every Thursday after break time. We have a single English class at the same time as their second half of the double class. Before our single English class we have Geography class with Mrs L. Mrs L allowed us to use her geography class to participate in the workshop for English drama.
A man from outside of the school came in to do the workshop with us. His name was Ian. He was a really nice guy.
For the whole hour and twenty minutes we did loads and loads of different exercises. Everything we did involved some sort of movement. A lot of the time Ian performed some kind of routine using his arms and legs and we had to copy his movements. In the beginning we did a name game, using our hands. We had to point at somebody in the circle and say our names, then that person had to point at somebody else and say their own name. The next exercise we did involved walking around a marked out space. If Ian shouted "Blue" we had to stand on the blue lines that are painted all around the perimeter of the hall floor. If Ian shouted "floor" we had to crouch down and touch the floor with our two hands. If Ian shouted "Jump" we had to jump up and clap our two hands together. There were loads of exercises in between the beginning and the end. The last exercise involved quite a lot of moving. We had to get into pairs. My partner was Ailbhe. We had to make interesting shapes using our bodies. It was quite funny a lot of the time.
When our time was up with Ian, he got us to form a really big circle, like he had in the beginning, and he explained to us that all of the moving exercises we did were to help us perform on stage for dramas and plays.
It was a really worthwhile workshop.

Niamh! :D