Another bad fail

Whats happening in the land of fail

We were expecting to get some donations from the children but unfortunately we only got one, and that was a freebie from a MacDonald's meal. I think this is because that we were only there for one day and the letter we sent to the school was 2 weeks ago so some children might have forgotten and there has also been a lot of toy sales for children in need and school fete's just before our collection dates. These took most of our donations and parents may be short of money because of Christmas coming up. I think that if we had our collection earlier or had a box where they could leave toys at the primary school for a week instead of them having only one day to bring it on.

What I've learnt from this fail

• Try to choose collection dates that have had no other big collection dates before it
• Keep them aware of it, make sure you keep telling them so they can't forget it
• Allow them to bring in donations in their own time, not only on one day for an hour
• Instead of asking them to bring toys in go to them

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My workshop

We had to do a workshop with the year 3's of Browick Primary School. Because of the snow our group went from 7 to 4. Despite this we managed to adapt and keep the year 3's interested. We involved lots of charity related games which they seemed to enjoy and there was very few moments where they were of task or not enjoying it. We did have to improvise a lot though as they completed things a lot quicker than expected so towards the end it was more difficult but we managed and all played a big and decent role in the workshop.

From our questionnaire we learnt that, after our workshop, most of the children new what the difference between a charity shop and a normal shop. As this wasn't all of them we explained what it was and then they all understood. They all also wanted to donate to charity (I think that a few of them put there hands up as every ones else did but most seemed as if they actually did).  

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1/12/10

Period 1

We went to Browick Primary to show our performances and do the workshops. These have been explained in more detail in earlier posts, I do however think that they both went as well as they could have gone. The performance went smoothly and the year 3's seemed to enjoy the workshops.

Period 2

We have continued with the making of my shoe and I have almost finished the template of my shoe, unfortunately way behind schedule. I think this is because that I changed my plans at the last minute and didn't think about the fact that I was going to need a template or that it was going to be so difficult to make one that works. To try and get myself back on schedule I'm going to work a lot harder and think if there will be an easier way to do what I'm abouts to do but with the same results.

Period 3

Mrs Brogan (who normally takes us for these lessons) wasn't here today so we had a supply teacher and the work that we were set was to write up about the trip to Browick and how our campaign has been going so far. That was a fairly easy lesson as all we were doing is typing up what happened but still it took a while so I'm glad we did it in that lesson not for homework.

Overview

The day was a complete mixture of what we've been doing so far on the diploma, performing, making and writing our thoughts on how the making and performing went. It was a successful day because that nothing went wrong and I got a lot of stuff done. But will have to work extra hard on my shoe next lesson.

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My wondeful T.I.E.



Browick Infant School



We went to Browick primary to put on our T.I.E. performance, unfortunately because of the snow our group went from 5 to 3 with some of our main characters missing. We adapted our performance to work by saying other peoples lines. I think that it went surprisingly well seeing that we didn't have our main characters.

On the way there we quickly sorted out who will say which of the others lines and if we were going to take any parts out. In the end we didn't take any parts out. I think that the performance worked as we could easily say the other peoples lines and had a few friends as extras who didn't say anything to make it look like it would've done if everyone was here. It took a little bit of work to get the children to call out like they would in a normal panto but once they did they were incredibly enthusiastic. I don't think think it could've gone better as it was smooth with no mistakes and the children looked as if they enjoyed it.

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Health and safety tips no. 1

There are some important health and safety things I need to consider to make sure I'm safe and I'm not abouts to take any ones eyes out around me, there are some things which are general knowledge like don't put mouth of the stuff in my mouth so I'm only going to cover the things that I could quite easily do rather than do by just being stupid. I'm going to post these as I do them in class. The points I need to consider so far are:

• When I'm using the shoe last be careful not to trap my fingers in the hinge
• When I'm using the craft knife use a mat and be careful so I don't slash myself

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22/11/10

Period 1

We got our sketch books back and they were marked, miss stuck post sticks for us to follow so we hopefully do better in later work or ways to improve already done work. We also began the making of the shoe. We changed the design of our shoe so it could be made of slightly see through wax but this will be explained in more detail in later posts. We looked at some other non-wearable shoes and they gave me some ideas. One of them was almost persevered in a wax shoe box and this gave me the idea to have a wax shoe.

Period 2

We reviewed our campaigns and improved them. My group went and asked for our charity monster drawing to be blown up. This way we could put a big one stuck to cardboard and place it near our collection centre so that people know that they're defiantly donating to us. We also prepared a flyer to be read out in forms and an adult poster to be put up in the staff room. This poster is different to other ones as it appeals more to adults, hopefully.

Period 3

We rehearsed our performances again and showed them to the class. I think ours went well as we now all know our parts and we didn't get food thrown at us when we showed it to the class. The group leaders for the workshops with the year 2's then practiced their lessons so that they got that running smoothly. Because me and Freya aren't group leaders we used this time to make our giant Charity monster.

Overview

I feel that I got a lot done to day and with the start of the shoe and last minute changing of ideas also feel that things are really beginning to start moving. Our campaign advertising has all been completed and we are now waiting to see how many donations we get, the artifact shoe is proving more complicated than first thought so a more detailed plan is going to be need ed to make things easier, along with more health and a safety aspects.

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18/11/10

Period 1

We went to the Van Dal shoe factory and learnt about the shoe making process, hopefully getting some ideas for how we could make our shoe or how to plan it. I didn't find it that interesting as it's not really something I enjoy doing but I did get a good idea for how to plan my shoe.

Period 2

We gave in our sketch books so they could be marked and we can improve on what we've done. We stuck in our freebies form the Van Dal shoe factory first though. Then we blogged our Van Dal shoe trip.

Period 3

This was an opportunity to make sure everything that we needed to have done by then was done and to perfect our Van Dal shoe factory posts.

Overview

The trip out helped me get an idea of how to plan my shoe even if I didn't enjoy it that much. I think that the extra time to get tour blogs perfect an up to date was handy to because that meant I didn't have to do it at home

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