On Friday, Year One visited the Discover Centre in Stratford.
Discover’s overarching mission is to spark children and adults’ imagination, curiosity and creativity in a magical and stimulating environment. Enabling them to explore their imaginations and utilise this in their writing and play. First, the children listened to an interactive story told by the team and then the children were able to explore the workshop. There were different interactive areas all designed to enhance children's play and evoke imagination. The areas included an enchanted forest, a magic cave, a dress up area, puppet show, art and craft area, space ship, indoor and outdoor playground. Towards the end of our trip, the children came together and using puppets, created their own class story about the character 'Toothless Spike' the dragon and his friends. Through their exploration of the different aspects of stories within the Discover Centre, they recognised the importance of characters, settings, story openers and storylines. The children thoroughly enjoyed the trip and didn't want to leave!
Beginning the trip with an interactive story, dance and song.
The children exploring the enchanted forest- made up of props from various tales which the children had fun trying to guess the stories.
Sitting in the story tellers chair.
Exploring characters through costumes and role play- superheroes, monsters, insects, fish, fairies, mermaids- all you could think of!
Making puppets in the craft area.
Exploring the spaceship.
"I want to be a superhero and I'm going to whizz off to space!" Oliver.
The puppet show!
"This is screechy parrot and he talks like this. Come watch my puppet show, roll up, roll up! I've got a grisly lion too" Rashid.
The indoor playground.
Outdoor fun on the space rockets and pirate ships.
"I got to the top of the spaceship!" Polina
Finishing with the creation of a story about 'Toothless Spike' the dragon.
"I think he can breathe out flames of fire" James
"He has glittery black scales" Florence.
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