Week 3:
This week we worked mainly on our performance skills and adding more to the dance in "School Song". 

At the beginning of the week we worked on the singing of the “School Song” which meant we had to warm our voices up through doing many activities. The first activity was using alliteration and tong twisters to make sure we can fit the many words we need to, into the song. This helps everyone because we are able to not only practice the lyrics but work together as a team to get the words write. We also worked on our breathing by holding notes for a certain amount of time to make sure any long note we need to hold can be powerful and that we practice not only using our head voice but and chest voice. As this song was still quite new to the class everyone had to work on the part which is really fast because it meant everyone had fit a lot of words into such a little space of time but my group managed to finally get it which meant that was longer a problem when we were performing and that everyone knew the words. I had to learn the words for my solos which were quite simple but I also realised I definitely wanted to do a kids voice because my voice sounded very much like a little child. Overall I believe today went very well as the whole group made massive progress with the song and learning it.

Later on in the week we started to learn the block routine but many people were missing therefore it was quite hard to do the routine but we made sure we warmed up our body my mobilizing our joint and doing a pulse racer to pump the blood round the body and the heart. Although we didn't learn much of the "block scene", we did learn all the beginning of the dance which was helpful because we were able to be more aware of our surrounding when working together. I found this quite useful because it made everyone know where exactly they were meant to be. Overall I feel this day was quite useful because we went over the parts we didn't quite understand at the beginning of the dance and were able to help each other.

At the end of the week, we worked on the beginning of the routine which was really useful because we were able to work on all our performance skills and clean everything up. The warm up was very useful because we sang the song and did a pulse raiser which helped our stamina and made us all ready and prepared for musical theatre. 

This week I feel I have improved on my performing skills because I was able to make my body language exactly the way I wanted my character to be portrayed. In my opinion I need to improve my dancing in the performance but long term I need to start stretching so I can have greater flexibility when dancing.