Week one of Ambition Hub :
Every Wednesday at 1:30pm all of level 2,3 and 3 extended. This year we have been split into two groups for ambition hub, Group one is doing a performance for the light cinema. Group 2 is doing a talk about how resilience work with doing Performing arts. My group is the one for the light cinema for performing arts. The first lesson we did, Jess did a warm up with us then corner work and then we got a 15 minute break. After are break we switched studios because our music was not working well in B41. We got into B25 and then had started on the dance performance for “Does your mother know?” and we started the chorus part.
The beginning of our dance :
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Week 2 :
Wednesday 18th September was freshers fair week, due to a lot of people being in my group, so I was the only one who was moved to group 2 and when I got moved we had a freshers fair day and we got to go to trinity green. We did this from 1:30pm till 2:45pm. Then we went home at 3pm.
Week 3 :
This week was the first Ambition hub master class. However this one was just a meeting of all different types of employers that we have been introduced to through the different courses of our ambition hub. Then we did a quiz for our first badges online. This lasted about a hour and a half. Finally we got to do my favorite part! Collect our ambitions hub hoodies!! Then we got to get home at 3:15pm.
Week 4 :
This week we got to have our turn with Jess for dance, and our dance is called “Somewhere over the rainbow” which is a lyrical dance we will be doing for the light cinema for old people with disabilities. This then lasted till 3pm.
Week 5 :
This week at the beginning of the lesson we had a talk with the “The Leap” and this lasted for around 30 minutes this was talk was about our future career of how we are going to get jobs in performing arts. After this we then had Jess for our dance lesson for our performance “Somewhere over the rainbow” and we have nearly finished of on our performance for the 29th October, this lasted till 3pm.
Week 6 :
This week was different because as we normally have it at 0n a Wednesday but it got cancelled so we did it on Thursday and we finished of our dance for the wizard of oz in the light cinema on Tuesday in half term.
Here is our dance for the ambition hub project :
Week 7 :
Wednesday morning at 9:30am we had Jess for a theory lesson on how to write an Essay and how to write it with Harvard referencing as none of us has done that before. Harvard referencing is commonly used in university work for example essay to improve on there writing for that project they are doing to get more marks for that type of degree they want . This was helpful because I already started on my Essay so then I can have, an insight on how to do quotes and website referencing. From 11am till 12:30pm we had independent study time. Then we got a lunch break from 12:30pm till 1:30pm. After lunch we had Ambition hub, we had Emma this week instead of Steph. Because Steph was not in. However, we had a lesson on how to write a CV. We did this from 1:30pm till 3pm.
Week 8 :
Wednesday morning, we had Emma for our course work lesson, I have already finished my Essay, so I continued with my reflections and looked over my essay a lot. Then it came to independent study at 11am, this week Emma gave me permission to use B41 to practice my dance for the showcase until lunch, so I have more room practicing. Then we had lunch from 12:30pm till 1:30pm. After lunch we had Ambition Hub, in this lesson we had a look on what we were doing on our masterclass that we are leading next week. In this master class we are collaborating with Childcare, so in this case we are do a thing called “Theatre in education” in the master class we will be doing puppet work with our group. All the level 2,3 and extended got mixed into three groups of ten. We all got a piece of paper, moral of the story and the background story of our character. Our puppet was called “Tiffany”, and our background of our puppet was that she was a dancer and came out as gay and then got bullied in her dance school. The moral of our story was she got bullied by being a lesbian in a dance school, so she moves to a contemporary dance school, she had a solo at her contemporary dance school and froze on stage and got flashbacks from her old dance studio. In the end the dance teacher helped her overcame her fear and dance beautifully back on stage again and had loads of support from her friends in her contemporary dance school. We did this until 3pm.
Week 9 :
Wednesday morning at 9:30am we had Jess for course work where I wrote down the rest of the dance so when it comes to rehearsals I can remember it. Then we finished at 11pm. After this we had independent study time from 11pm till 12:30pm. Where I practiced my dance by myself with my friends in the studio. Then we all went to lunch at 12:30pm till 1:30pm. After lunch we had Ambition Hub with Jess and we learned a new dance for the light cinema. We did this until 3pm.
Week 10 :
Wednesday morning we had Emma and we was in B25 for a extra project lesson. First of we did a warm up and stretch before we had a start on our project work. Then we got to our project work for 15 minutes then after that we showed our project work in order of the show after everyone had feedback on what can be approved in our dance. Then we had independent study from 11am till 12:30pm. After this we had lunch from 12:30pm till 1:30pm. After lunch we had more independent study but we had b41 so we can all have space to practice our project then we went home at 3pm.
Week 11 :
Wednesday morning we had Steph for our course work lesson at 9:30am and just carried on with our work as we only have until January to do it. Then at 11am we had independent study where me and my friends went into the cafe and did some more coursework so we can have a break and not trying to stress about coursework in the holiday. After this we had lunch from 12:30pm till 1:30pm. After lunch we had our annual performing arts Christmas party where we did Karaoke and Just dance. Then we all went home at 3pm.
Week 12:
Wednesday morning at 10am we had another deep brief plan as some of the other groups has not filmed yet but our group has. However when we started the day, we re did a lot of re takes as we looked back at a lot of scenes we did not like so we just did a retake and also had photography to help us with our poster for to put in the end of the film. We had lunch from 1-2pm. And looked back at our film and did do a bit more filming. Then we all went home at 4pm.
Week 13 :
Wednesday morning at 9:30am we had coursework lesson till 11pm,where we started finishing of our power points but also started on some FMP coursework. Then we had independent study from 11pm till 12:30pm. After independent study we had lunch from 12:30pm till 1:30pm. After lunch we had Ambition hub, this week we started on Shakespeare, where we did loads of games and most of it was related to the play we are going to be doing. We then went home at 3pm.
Week 14 :
Wednesday morning at 9:30am we had Jess for our coursework lesson. where we did a finishing of four our pitch’s presentation. Next we had our presentation with Jenny for our FMP. This was from 11pm till 12:30pm. Then we had lunch from 12:30pm till 2pm, however I had a student council meeting for the disability team and we were deciding on a name for our group. Then I went back to my group at 2pm and we went over to Trinity green to do a Ambition Hub master class, in this master class we did sport and the other group was digital. The first thing we did we went to the dance studio and did a game called “floor is laver” and we did it with hula hoops, after this we went to go paly rugby. Next we went to go to the sports haul and did wheelchair rugby and then we went home at 4pm .
Week 15:
Wednesday morning at 9:30am we had Joe for our coursework lesson as Jess was off ill we had him till 11am. Then we had independent study from 11am till 12:30pm, in this time I practiced my singing and dancing audition so it is clean for the actual audition but then I did also caught up with some coursework. Then we had more independent study time as Steph and Jess was both ill so we had till 3pm to do anything for our FMP audition or coursework. We then went home at 3pm.
Week 16 :
Wednesday morning at 9:30am we had coursework lesson with Jess where we all started on our fmp coursework and I started on my research. Then we went onto independent study and finished off on what we did on Monday to catch anyone up who was not there. Then we had lunch from 12:30pm till 1:30pm. After lunch we had ambition hub where my group did Shakespeare for our playmakers festival in the summer. Then we went home at 3pm.
Week 17:
Wednesday morning at 9:30am we had Jess for our coursework lesson where I did my FMP research, we had this lesson until 10:45am. After this we had independent study where we all went to B41 and we did extra rehearsals for our FMP where we first did a dance warm up and then we did the opening number to recap on what we did last week for the people who was not there, we did this for around 10 minutes. Then we went onto the acting part where we got through most of act one. Once we finished this we had lunch from 12:30pm till 1:30pm. After lunch we did Ambition hub, in ambition hub we did Shakespeare games we played a different version of grandmothers footsteps but because we were are doing king Leah for Shakespeare we had King Leah as our grandma we did this game for 10 minutes, then we played “What do you want me to do” King Leah played as the king or queen, and a person would have to come in the middle and say to the king or queen “What would you like me to do?” and then they would tell you to do something it can be something really bad or nice and you would still have to do it anyway, after you did what the king or queen told you to do you ask the king or queen “Was that to your satisfactory my queen or king” and if they said yes you would stay in the court and if not you would be were they don not like you but we called it the “disgrace”. Next we then went onto a recap on what the plot what King Leah is, and then we went through the five themes : Love, betrayal, conflict, family, dementia. I was in a group with Tamara and Charlotte and we got family and we got family and did a freeze frame on family. Then we did this till 2:45pm and then went home.
Week 18 :
Wednesday morning at 9:30am we had Jess for our coursework lesson to catch up on our FMP coursework. We then finished at 10:45am and then had our independent study lesson from 11am till 12pm.In our independent study lesson we had a extra dance rehearsal so we can get more time in for more practicing in our rehearsals. After our independent study we had lunch from 12pm till 12:30pm. After lunch we had our second Ambition hub master class of the year where it was with travel and tourism, in this master class we learnt about costumer skills this lasted till 2pm. Then we all went home at 2pm.
Week 19:
Wednesday morning at 9:30am we had Jess for our coursework lesson to do more add more onto our coursework. Then we did this till 10:30am. Then we had a break from 10:30am till 11am. After break we had independent study, where in the morning we finished Dear Christopher until 12:30pm. Then we had lunch from 12:30pm till 1:30pm. After lunch we had more independent study because we did not have Ambition Hub as Steph had work placement with other students instead so we had FMP rehearsals all afternoon, where we had a planning and production meeting to see how everyone is going on. Then we did the voice recordings of Run boy Run. We also got through a bit more of run boy run. After this we finished Dear Christopher done. And then we finished at 3pm.
Week 20:
Wednesday morning at 9:30am we had Jess for our coursework lesson where I tried to catch up on my research and context. Then we finished at 10:30am. Then we had a break from 10:30am till 11am. After break we had independent study, in our independent study we did our planning and production roles so we could get them out of the way as we do not have long left. Then we had lunch from 12:30pm till 1:30pm. After lunch Ambition hub was cancelled so we all did more planning and production roles instead, because most of the characters we needed was on work experience. Then we all went home at 3pm.
Week 21 :