It is now the turn of Year 6 to work with Lost in Translation. Over the next 11 weeks they will undertake training in a range of circus skills with coaches from our circus partners at Lost in Translation. At the end of term they will plan and deliver a school showcase where they can share their work with the rest of the school.
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Wednesday 2nd October: LiT return for circus skills
Annabel, Lawrence and Andy return for the second circus skills sessions with Year 5. A few adjustments were made to the groups following the first session last week before the three groups separated and got to work. Warm ups, stretches and games to start then core skills, tumbling and then acrobalance and pyramids to finish. Enjoy the gallery.
Wednesday 18th September: Y5 start circus skills
Year 5 will be doing circus skills this term. They will be working with coaches from Norwich-based circus company Lost in Translation for a 10 week block developing the circus and performance skills they started last year. The course was launched with a visit to Oak Circus Centre on Coslany Street where LiT are based. The children had a tour of the space, watched a skills demo from the coaches, put their questions to the team in a Q&A before taking part in three skills assessments. The coaches will come to Wensum from next Wednesday to run the sessions. Enjoy the gallery.
Tuesday 23rd – Group B circus showcase
Circus skills Group B deliver a superb showcase. Despite Mr H having lost the footage of the routines from the previous session (!!!) the three groups remembered their routines. They dusted them off, tweaked and refined them and then delivered them with panache! Thanks to the amazing tutors from Lost in Translation for their hard work with our kids this year. We look forward to working with them again in September!
Tuesday 9th July – circus showcase
The three circus skills groups from Dolphin, Armes, Turner and Sycamore held their showcase today. They met at 11am to finalise routines and carry out last minute rehearsals then presented to the rest of the school in the main hall at 2.30pm. Three superb routines displaying high levels of teamwork, athleticism, resilience and bravery. A huge thanks to all the Lost in Translation tutors who have coached the kids over the last half year.
Thursday 13th December – Circus and print making workshop
As part of the city’s Circus 250 celebrations, our friends, the Norwich-based circus company Lost in Translation, hosted a day of circus skills and traditional print making. 40 children spent the day at LiT’s Oak Circus Centre base on Coslany Street. Matt led heritage sessions on juggling, trapeze and trampoline before leading workshops in these disciplines with LiT founder Annabel. Norwich-based print collective Print to the People led sessions on traditional printing as children created fantastical circus personas for themselves and prepared these for print from traditional carved wooden printing letter blocks. Enjoy the gallery.
Wednesday 11th July – circus performance day arrives
Y6’s big day has arrived. They have been developing their circus skills since January through weekly sessions with LiT tutors, then finalising plans for their performance with Casus Circus over the past three weeks. Today they met at 8.45am at the Big Top in Chapelfield Gardens for the performance. The morning was taken up with a technical rehearsal (lights, music, stage positioning), full run through, and final rehearsals for individual and team routines. Children from Lakenham and The Steiner School were also on the bill. At 1.30pm, the performance started with the children performing to an audience of well over 300. It was a superb performance and a wonderful showcase of their hard work this year. Speaking to the children backstage after the show their thoughts were clear: we want to do that again, now!
Thanks to families for their support, and to the inspirational tutors from Lost in Translation Circus and Casus Circus. If you are inspired to see more circus then please click here for a programme of the circus performances taking place this weekend as part of the Circus 250 Festival of Circus. Click here for the article from the EDP.
Below are four galleries covering the day. Please scroll down. Enjoy
Morning warm-up
Technical rehearsal
Backstage
Performance
Tuesday 10th July – final preparations for the circus performance
Casus delivered their last session with Y6 ahead of tomorrow’s big schools showcase in Chapelfield Gardens. Although some of the children were on their high school transition, which had an impact on some of the paired routines, the skill level of the children was very impressive, and there was a very purposeful and happy atmosphere in each of the groups. Can’t wait for tomorrow.
Friday 6th July – Lord Mayor’s celebrations get underway
A parade of the Circus 250 elephants gets the weekend’s celebrations for the Lord Mayor’s Weekend underway. The 5 elephants – 4 adults and 1 baby – created by local artists Tin House – recreated the Barnum and Bailey parade through the city. It all looks set to be a fantastic weekend of celebrations. See you there.
Thursday 28th June – second session with Casus
Working intensively over consecutive days is important as it helps the children develop their ‘physical memory’, embedding the routines so they become second nature. The peer showcase at the end of the second session showed how far they had come in just two days. Not only are they increasingly skillful and coordinated, but they are also clearly enjoying themselves!
