A Great Day Out

Date: 21st Jan 2019 @ 6:46pm

The Bongos have been linking with 4H from Barden Primary School in Burnley. They have spent today at Burnley Youth Theatre getting to know new friends and thinking about our similarities and differences. On arrival the two classes were split in half and sent to work with either Laura or Alice from the theatre. Lots of fun was had playing ice breaker games, the children then worked in pairs to find 3 differences and 3 similarities which would become part of the group working with Alice final performance. Next in larger groups they added the end to the sentence starters we dream, we hope we are. To round of the performance the children sang the opening of This is Me from The Greatest Showman. 

At lunchtime the children were challenged to sit with people from each other’s schools and lots of chatting and laughter accompanied the packed lunches.

After lunch more games and rehearsals ready for the final  performance. At around quarter to two we joined together to watch each groups work, the performances were brilliant. 

Soon it was time to say goodbye , we exchanged work about each other and made our way back to our schools. it really has been a wonderful day meeting new friends. The Bongos have learnt a lot and really appreciated the fact that even though people can come from very different backgrounds there will be differences but there will also be lots of similarities such as enjoying football, having pets, being born in the UK.