Today was my first intorduction into integrfated arts. Both workshops today focussed on mostly drama and music and how to implement these subjects into primary teaching successfully. Music is a passion I have always had and have spent most of my life doing and drama is the total opposite.
Throughout the sessions today we focussed on how to use drama and music to link into other subjects such as english. While taking part in the drama workshop I was very nervous as it is not a comfortable subject for me, in saying this I found myself really enjoying taking part in turning my body into shape, making faces and still frames to further character development and watching everyone else do the same. When using this subject in my own teaching environment I would take into account my nervousness for the subject and how by doing it along with everyone else in the class I felt much more comfortable and my pupils may also feel the same way when using drama withing ther own teaching.
Within our muic workshop I felt very comfortable, althogh I had never really thought of music as a gateway to other subjects. For example, today we used a sound/song to craete a story within a small group and although many groups had similar ideas nobody quite had the same storyline.
Using this going forward I would like to see my confidence within the drama subject improve throughout my time on the course and try to think outside the box when it comes to both drama and music and linking them to other subjects such as english and maths to make what some may believe ‘boring’ subjects a little more exciting, fun and engaging for all.
Below is the story I created with my group to the sound from Tam O’Shanter. Although messy it kind of matches the story we were trying to tell and the sound that inspired it.
