Foolhardy Circus Big Top Residential Week 28 Mar - 1 Apr

Friday, 01 April 2011 00:00

Year 7 and 8 students had the amazing opportunity to take part in an weeks residential with Foolhardy Circus at the end of our Spring term. For one week 33 students worked with specialist circus performers in the 'Big Top', circus tent and devised their own performance which they performed to family members and friends on the final day.

During the week they learnt a wide range of circus skills including: the trapeze, walking up the Chinese Pole and across the tightrope, juggling, hoola hoop, diablo, plate spinning, stilts, unicycle, clowning, learning about clown face painting and creating their own special, clown face egg.

Student  feedback shows what a superb time the students had and how much they engaged with the circus performers, enjoyed and learnt for this unique and often challenging experience;

Student Ratings

74%   'learnt a lot on this course about new skills' - all of the time.
26%   'learnt a lot on this course about new skills' - most of the time
86%   'enjoyed the course' - all of the time.
14%   'enjoyed the course'  - most of the time.

Student Comments

Which aspects of the course made you proud to have taken part?

• All of the awesome hard tricks.
• Everyone discussing what we have achieved through the past week.
• To get picked to do it all.
• I have had a lot of fun doing the course and have learnt how to get along with people better and achieved so much.
• I don’t think it could be improved it was the best one.

How did the group work together?

• We all made like a big family.
• Communicating.
• They did not give up and run off all the time.
• Because we were all watching each other and looking at what we had to do.
• Everyone got on like a house on fire.
• We always listened to each others ideas and helped each other.
• Our group worked well and almost everyone took part.
• We all did as much as we could.
• By listening and co-operating.
• We talked and got on well together.
• We all worked amazing so Chris could teach us.

Many thanks to the Children's Services Youth Work Team and Foolhardy Circus for providing our students with this amazing opportunity which I am sure many will remember for a long time after.

Margaret Quigley
Assistant Headteacher