Campion College PREP!

18.9.2020

Hi I’m Miriam and I am currently am attending Campion College in Gisborne, New Zealand. 

Normally we have impact projects on a Friday each trimester but since this trimester is shorter than the other trimesters we are doing something called PREP. PREP is when we create something that people can buy or watch. Each group of people creates something to sell and with the money that we make from selling our items we donate it to the Saint Vincent De Paul Charity. 

This trimester for PREP I have joined a drama group and we are putting together a play that people can buy tickets to watch. This Friday we saw the script for the very first time and discussed how we should behave. Our teacher Mr. Sparks explained to us that we have to behave like professional paid actors so we decided on a contract that we all have to sign. I think that the contract was a very good idea because it shows us how we need to behave during our PREP time.

While we were looking at the script for the first time we were also figuring out how we were going to set up the stage and what we were going to call our drama group. We set up our stage with 4 big boxes at the back against the wall. Then we put a (slightly lower) small blue rectangular box in the middle of the beginning of the 4 boxes. Next we put 2 sets of steps on the sides of the big boxes. The rest of us put several seats around the stage set up. After that was done we passed around a small piece of paper with a bunch of names on it. Each person would tick the name that they wanted and the name with the most ticks would be the name of our drama group.

Later on in the day we talked about everything that we needed for our play to work. We talked about things like costumes, floats, seating, props and much more. We also talked about how we needed to find a specific group of people to target. Everyone decided that our main target for the people who we want to watch out play was our parents and fellow students.

Thank you for reading my blog. I post stuff every week about PREP,

Miriam