With Stars and The Garden Project we worked with children from
the special unit at Hilitingbury Infants with each child having
a mainstream ‘buddy’,
In “Stars” we created a snowscape and dressed the
children up as silly snowmen with red noses and crazy costumes!
Someone
had left some magical boxes in the snow and we enjoyed opening
them and finding furry animals and lots of sticky stars to decorate
the all white space.We danced to twinkling stars sounds and relaxed
to Ice Chill Out music.
After the snowscape was covered in stars we dressed up and danced
around with the shadows behind a special snow screen.
In January 2004, Platform 4 created a fantastical garden environment for a
similar group and ran a series of workshop within it.
Making flowers, Catching fish, Creating seed packets,
Dancing and Decorating,
Watching the Weather,
Planting loads of lettuce,
Seeing ourselves in lots of strange places…
"The spectacular setting – the snow scene on
the darkened stage – had the children (and me) spellbound.” Teacher,
Hiltingbury Primary School
“It was a wonderful opportunity for me as a teacher
to work with professionals from the drama/art field and it has
given me
some ideas to us in school to brighten up my teaching!” Teacher,
Hiltingbury Primary School
“Making shadows using simple props – was ideal
for the children with speech and language difficulties as it
meant
they were able to fully participate without any pressure. In actual
fact some were quite vocal and my assistant said she had never
heard a particular child chatter so much!” Teacher,
Hiltingbury Primary School
