Infant Woodrow

         This Morning, we all went to Browick Road Infant School to do some performances and workshops. Our group and another group performed to the school in the assembly. The group that went first did a play about the Red Cross man that explained how the money raised in the charity shops go toward the Red Cross to help them cure others. The second performance, ours, was about a boy who didn't play with his toys and, in the end, donated them all to charity.

         The Workshop was very good. We had a very well behaved group, well done!, who always listened. We had them playing games and learning at the same time. This is called Theatre In Education (TIE). They drew a lovely picture and they will be going on the blog, as well as the performance video, at a later date.

           We taught the children about charity shops and raised awareness of what they do to help. We did this through the performances and workshops. At the end, they fully understood why charity is important and, although we didn't get any donations, over 80% of them said they would donate in the future. We feel that we didn't get any donations because we live in an age where people expect to get donations. Everyone gets letters though the door saying that they must donate and most families ignore them. We think that this had an effect on our letter that we gave to the children.

           We learn from our mistakes, although we got our point across.

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Failed Woodrow

Our Campaign Failed!

Part of our campaign was at the school and we did not get a single donation. Our explanations are that we did not push hard enough to the students in forms or assemblies. I think most, if not all, of the students were unaware of this event and this is because we didn't do enough to ensure they were aware.

Another explanation is that the students of the school, to put it bluntly, do not care much for charities in Wymondham. This gave us a new idea. Most of the teachers in the school have children, and most children have too many toys. Since it is nearly Christmas, we thought a good clearout for the charity shops should do the job!

Come back soon to see if this idea works

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Woodrow's Step-by-Step Machines

 1. The first machine nails and glues the sole onto the shoe. This is after the shoe is stitched together by the sewing team!

2. Next, the shoe is taken to have its shine taken off. This machine is called the bottom rougher and stops the sole being slippy and gives it more grip.

3. The shoe is then taken to be polished and glued together thoroughly. It is then put through this drying machine.

4. It is then finally dried again in a smaller drying machine. It is then ready to be packaged and sold in the Van Dal shop next door.

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Woodrow Shoes

Today we visited Florida Shoes, a shoe factory in Norwich. They are famous for Van Dal shoes and a history of working in Norwich as shoe makers. They have factories all around the world including China and Italy where they get their materials. It takes 2-3 months to crteate a shoe from the drawing board to the shops, during 2 weeks some shoes are in other parts of the world being put together.

       Florida shoes have been making shoes for 75 years since 1936 (see right) and make 7,000,000 pairs a year, thats about 525,000,000  pairs of shoes sice they started! They get most of their materials for China but the more expensive ones come from Itay. I have writen up a step-by-step guide on how to make shoes in my Sketch books too.

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Woodrow In Need

 

The Charity, ‘Children In Need’ is a British phenomenon and has had inspiration from 1927 and the main idea has been unchanged throughout this time. Although it was originally on radio, it is still a telethon (on the television all day) and still raises money for less fortunate children. Last year, they raised £39,000,000 and this year they are hoping to get even more. This money is then distributed between children’s charities all over Britain. The charity is open to donations from everyone so does not have a particular target audience. They use television to get people to donate, but also give away free fundraising packs to get others people to donate outside of the studio. The success of the charity is amazing, in the first radioed broadcast of children in need only got about £1,000, that’s still a lot, but it’s done well to get up to £39,000,000 and still getting more.

Vet Woodrow

Today, we went to town for our Artefact and Campaign units. During Campaign we spoke to the manager of the Vetinary Health Centre and asked about the equipment that they use, the shops opening and other background information for our shoes. They had many needles and pins to use in operations and x-ray machines that were used to find the problem. We have pictures of all these aswel as the operation tables and even some of the animals! The photos will be on the blog when they have been transfered onto the computer.

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Homework 1

Due Date: Tuesday 28th September 2010

Summarization

Artefact, Campaign, and Performance

This year we will discover and understand artefacts, how and why they are made, and create artefacts of our own. We will also investigate how to create a campaign and seeand work out how theyare planned, down to posters, advertisements and sources of adverts. Finally we will study types of Performance and how they have developed over time, depending on audience.