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Panto scenery. by hookykate

I was all inspired by the Panto that Finn and I saw at Sovereign Hill, it really was good dumb fun. And much as I enjoy the evocative language and outright brutality of Macbeth some students don’t find it fun.

So yesterday we did a little work on writing a panto version of the Scottish Play. I thought we might only get fifteen minutes out of this task but that it was worth a shot. After a slightly slow start we actually worked on it for the whole ninety minutes of a double session. Some of the students were laughing too hard to read out their work at the end. I couldn’t have been more chuffed.

Lesson for the day - give slightly silly a chance.