Year 1 students your half term prep is -

 

1.       Live Theatre: Ensure detailed notes are written up on Woman in Black & Pride & Prejudice in the templates provided. I have attached them again.

 

2.       AMSND: Learn lines and develop characterisation ideas considering the following –

o   Your characters emotions/objectives

o   Whether you are transposing the setting or modernising it (refer to modern adaptations including The Globe’s version)

o   Physical Skills - Using your physicality, movement, posture, eye contact

o   Vocal Skills – Tone, pace, volume, pitch, use of pauses

 

3.       Recap Commedia performance techniques. On the Servant bloghttp://servantlongroad.blogspot.co.uk/ read the post entitled – How Would You Perform The Role Of Truffaldino in this extract to make the audience laugh? In the comments box below the post write a paragraph explaining how you would perform the role of Truffaldino to make the audience laugh in the script extract given.

 

Sarah Stow

Course Team Leader for Drama and Theatre

Welcome to Long Road!

Exam stress getting you down?

Exams are important, but not worth getting ill over...

Check out this campaign from MIND Cambridge 

Where to get help…

When the going gets tough, talk to an adult you trust or check out these free and confidential services for young people:

YMCA Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

T. 01733 373175
www.theymca.org.uk

Centre 33

T. 01223 316488
www.centre33.org.uk

There is also lots of useful information at www.youngminds.org.uk

And if it all gets too much…

Sometimes stress can be so overwhelming that it can lead to persistent feelings of hopelessness, despair and possibly suicide.

If you — or someone you know — are feeling very low a lot of the time and/or you are having thoughts of suicide, talk to an adult you trust as soon you can and/or contact:

HopelineUK (see details of opening hours at www.papyrus-uk.org)

T. 0800 068 41 41
pat@papyrus-uk.org
SMS. 07786 209697

Samaritans

T. 116 123 (UK Freephone, 24-hour helpline)
jo@samaritans.org
www.samaritans.org

See also www.stopsuicidepledge.org for more information.

By sharing how you're feeling, you will feel better.

Find out more at MIND Cambridge

Positivity Before Exams

Positivity Before Exams

Whilst you are working hard and revising, remember to be kind to yourself and realistic in your expectations 

Positive affirmations when you aren't feeling so good!

Motivation when you need a good kick!

Start the Day with Determination - 

Finish the Day with Satisfaction

Managing Exam Stress

7 Ways to Manage Exam Stress

  When you are dragged down into the murky depths of exam season, it can be difficult to keep track of the 'little' things: like food, sleep, exercise, when you feel under pressure to devour four books a day for sustenance, fall asleep while listening to foreign language podcasts in the hope that it'll all sink in by the time the oral exam comes around, and the only exercise you can make time for is lugging a rucksack full of textbooks up and down the library stairs.

We've all been there before, and the thing is, unless you are in your finals (good luck!), you will likely be there again. When the fog clears and you reintroduce yourself to normality, you might look back and wish you had put yourself, your health, your sanity, first a little more. So, here's some advice from BACP therapist Dawn Hastings to keep you afloat the next time the pressure's on. 

 7 Ways to Manage Exam Stress