Wednesday 11 March 2009

Video Conferencing. Scargill Infant School (Havering) and Parkhill Junior School (Redbridge).

Traditional Tales with a Twist and Charades!

A group of year 6 children at Parkhill have been writing stories "with a twist". The children spent time researching traditional tales on the Internet and using books. They each chose a favourite story and embarked on the task to re-write it with a modern setting, changing the characters.

The Parkhill children have been engaged in a series of video conferences with Infants schools in the Borough of Redbridge and were delighted to be asked to share their work with Year 2 children at Scargill Infant School in Havering.

Today we had our first video conference with Miss Munford's Class 1 and some children in Class 3. They were a model audience who listened carefully to two stories and then asked some very good questions about the work.

The stories read today were:-

Snow White - where the characters were two sisters and seven friends.
The Three Little Pigs - where the characters were reversed and it became the three little wolves and the big bad pig.

Click above to read the stories in full.

Charades!


In order to make this a more interactive session the children at Scargill Infants had prepared two charades to perform.





The miming was superb and after a little discussion the Parkhill children were able to identify them both. The charades were a new idea, which was extremely successful and the children from both schools seemed to really enjoy them. It was great to be able to share ideas and for both schools to participate equally in the video conference.

Can you guess the Nursery Rhyme? Click the Picture to Play.


Can you guess the Story? Click the picture to Play.




We have another video conference with Miss Bain's Class 2 next week, when two different story tellers from Parkhill will be reading and we are looking forward to some more excellent mimes.

48 comments:

  1. The children were very polite to us and listened really well we also like the way that one of the children did the shape of the egg in the game of charades.
    Amy

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  2. I liked how they did charades for Little Red Riding hood in particular the way they mined the eyes and ears.
    Karan

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  3. I felt very scared but happy about reading to Scargill School. They were very sweet and listened very well. The questions they asked me were very good.
    Amirah

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  4. I found that the children from Scargill did vey good charades. The first charade was best because the children mimed the horses very well.
    Nirosh

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  5. They asked me very good and very hard questions and I had to think harder than normal to answer them I enjoyed reading my story.
    Omar

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  6. Thank you to all of the children at Scargill who took part in our Video Conference today. You were a wonderful audience.
    Mrs Seagrave, Parkhill Junior

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  7. I really enjoyed the first story The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig because it was different. It was the same storyline but Omar changed the characters.
    Zak, 7

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  8. The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig was fantastic because I liked the bit when the Big Bad Pig went red from the chilli.

    I also liked the part in the second story when the sister felt guilty.
    George, 7

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  9. It was good fun watching the Parkhill children on the big screen and us in the little one.
    I liked the stories especially when the Big Bad Pig had smoke coming out of his ears.
    Abbie, 7

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  10. I liked it when the Big Bad Pig ate the meat with the chilli on the top. In the second story I liked it when I heard that the nasty witch was Snow White's sister.
    Aimee, 6

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  11. We thoroughly enjoyed the stories Omar and Amirah read and look forward to next week for our second video conferencing session. Thank you Parkhill Juniors.
    Mrs Tyler, Scargill Infant School

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  12. What a lovely morning you gave us Parkhill! Thank you very much. We had a fantastic time and we look forward to sharing more time with you.
    Miss Munford
    Class 1 teacher and Deputy Head

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  13. I like when the big bad pig atre the chilli
    Amber aged 7

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  14. I like the three little wolves, it made me laugh! Venus aged 7

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  15. I like the big where the smoke came out of the pig! Bradley aged 7

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  16. I liked it when the pig ate the chilli and ran away and screamed Katie aged 6

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  17. I enjoyed when the smoke was coming out of the pigs ears ~Aidan aged 7

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  18. I liked when Snow Whites sister felt guilty because she went to the hospital and sang to her sister
    George, aged 7

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  19. I like when the older sister felt guilty because then she woke her up. James R aged 6

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  20. In Snow white I like when she went to hospital because it made me feel she was going to do the right thing and I could get the picture in my head
    Maisie aged 7

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  21. I really liked the reading because the children read beautifully and spoke clearly Faith aged 6

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  22. Omar read it so it was exciting Liam aged 6

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  23. I liked it when the big bad wolf ate the hot stuff.
    Ross aged 6

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  24. It was fun being humpty dumpty and I liked it when I fell off the wall and went AAAHHH
    Tom aged 7

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  25. I liked dong the rhymes because I enjoyed when Tom fell down.
    Louie aged 6

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  26. I liked it when the pig had steam coming out and I liked the way the children read the stories
    James T Aged 6

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  27. Hello Parkhill! We have enjoyed adding comments to the blog today - ENJOY!
    Miss Munford

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  28. Hello Scargill. Wow you have been busy with all of your wonderful comments. Do you like the short films made from the pictures taken when you were acting out your mimes?
    Mrs Seagrave, Parkhill.

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  29. I read my version of Cinderella to Class 2 today and they sat very still and listened well. They also asked us some very good questions about our stories at the end.
    Amy T, Parkhill.

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  30. Class 2 asked a very tricky question but it was very funny. They asked if we could do one charade about one of our stories, so we had to think of something very quickly.
    Amirah, Parkhill.

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  31. I read the story of the Hare and the Tortoise, but using cars, and they asked me tricky questions about the characters. Scargill were a quiet audience and when they asked us to act out our stories it was especially difficult. Their charades were fun to solve as the props Miss Bain's class made helped us understand the mime.
    Karan, Parkhill

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  32. Scargill was an excellent audience, they asked interesting questions especially when we had to act out one of the stories. The charades they did were very good and the props helped us to solve them.
    Nirosh, Parkhill

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  33. Class 2 were a great audience, they had fabulous questions, it was obvious that they had taken a long time to prepare for us. The props helped us to identify the characters in the charades and they were very clear when they were doing the actions. It was fun.
    Omar, Parkhill

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  34. Thank you Class 2, Miss Bain and Mrs Tyler for another fun video link. As always the children were such great listeners and everyone at Parkhill has commented on this. The charades were excellent, you had put a lot of effort into preparing the mimes and the props were wonderful. BUT....you put us on the spot rather asking us to act out one of our stories! That was tricky, but fun! We have all had a good laugh about that. I really hope that we can link up again soon. Thank you again.
    Mrs Seagrave. Parkhill.

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  35. In the first story my favourite part was when the car didn't win, like the hare didn't beat the tortoise. In the second story my favourite part was when Cinderella didn't find it so bad living with Rose.
    Sophie, aged 7

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  36. I watched a video conference and my best part of the story was the race with the car.
    Rhys, aged 7

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  37. My favourite part of the Cinderella story was where she put the mushrooms in the soup! My favourite part in the first story was when one of the cars lost it's bumper.
    Grace, 7

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  38. This morning we took part in a video conference. It was a bit like my karaoke at home when you can see yourself on the tv. I liked the part of the story when they had a race.
    Kayleigh, 7

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  39. I enjoyed the part when Cinderella put the mushrooms in Rose's soup and I liked it when the little car won the race.
    Oliver, 7

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  40. Well Parkhill, another excellent video conferencing session - well done! You all spoke beautifully and clearly. The stories were very cleverly put together. I know Class 2 really enjoyed them as they are still talking about them. Thank you Mrs Seagrave for all your help and yes, please, we would love to meet up again with you soon.
    Mrs Tyler, Scargill Infant School

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  41. Thank you very much Parkhill and Mrs Seagrave. We really liked your two stories with a twist and we also enjoyed doing the mimes ourselves. We think you acted out your story very well at such short notice! It was very funny! We hope we can link up with you again soon.
    Class 2 and Miss Bain

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  43. We have received a comment from Danny about our work. This is what she said:-

    hello i thought that the storys were very entertaining and very funny i hope we hear from you soon looking faward to your next story to tell.

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  44. I enjoyed the stories but liked the bit when Cinderella realised it wasn't so bad living with Rose.
    Jolaade, 6

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  45. My favourite part of the Cinderella story was when she put mushrooms in Rose's soup. I like mushrooms!
    Milli, 6

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  46. My favourite story was The Big Bad Pig and the Three Little Wolves because Omar had changed the story around. I liked the ending when the Big Bad Pig ate the red hot chilli.
    Louis, 6

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  48. I enjoyed being the moon in the hey diddle diddle rhyme and seeing myself on the computer.
    Matthew,7

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