Bravo

Today we learnt about our 2025 Bravo Class play - Are You New Here? 
It's a crazy wee story with school kids, teachers, police officers ...and aliens! 
All the craziness aside, it's a story which champions celebrating our differences and kindness. 

This week we learnt about the story, our characters, and highlighted our lines. 
The play has been customised specifically for our class. 
All parts/characters are of equal importance to the story, however several parts have significantly fewer spoken lines. This was arranged for those of our Bravo students who requested less lines to have to learn. 

We read through the play as a class (skipping over some sections to be able to get through it all in time).

Homework this week is to read through the play again, getting a sense of the story as a whole, and for each student to learn their first 2 lines.

As well as the script, we also handed out a list of tips and tricks to help with learning lines. 

Links to electronic copies of the play and the Line Learning Tips and Tricks doc can be found on righthand side of this page.

 

We have been having fun getting back into classes so far this term and establishing some new Term Three class routines. 
Very shortly our focus will shift to our 2025 class play. 
Before announcing the play, we are introducing some of the important themes of our play. 

This week our focus was on recognizing and celebrating our similarities and differences. 
We did this through korero and games. 
A favorite game this week was 'School Visit' where our class got to take on the roles of the class, the teacher and new students arriving at school - with a twist! 
 

TERM ONE
During Term One our focus for all of Stage Door's school aged classes was on on establishing connections and creating a safe and fun classroom environment where we hope our students will be able to relax, have fun and grown in confidence and skill throughout the year. We take time at the start of each new year to get to know each other, play games and invest in activities designed to promote connection, team work and fun. We find prioritizing this to be absolutely vital to establishing a vibrant, safe, happy class culture and environment inline which aligns with our tag line that Stage Door is a place "Where Everyone Belongs". 

As well as getting to know each other and establishing a supportive class culture, during Term One our Bravo students focused on identifying, learning about and practicing four of the important 'tools' they have in their acting toolboxes: 
Faces; Bodies; Voices and Intellect. 

TERM TWO
During Term Two our Bravo students have been learning about, and practicing using two more important tools in our arsenal as actors: 
Listening and Empathy.

Shortly students will be issued with a script for the play which the class will ultimately present at our End of Year Drama Performance in December. In 2025 this performance is scheduled to take place on Saturday 6 December, 2025 (scroll down for more information about our 2025 End of Year Drama Performance). 

Parents and Students are asked to keep an eye on this page, where class updates, practice resources and homework notes will be regularly added throughout the year. 

BRAVO CLASS ACTING 'TOOL KIT'

1. Face
2. Voice
3. Body
4. Intelect
5. Listening
6. Empathy

Any homework resources or scripts for Bravo can be downloaded from this webpage for practicing at home. Click on the titles listed on the right hand side of the page, under Resources (above the tutor pics) to access these.