Throughout last term, Year 5 studied ‘Clockwork’ by Philip Pullman. The children designed and made their own shadow-puppets inspired by the book; in groups they wrote a script and used them within a performance in front of the class. They explored the traditional shadow puppets from South East Asia and the work of German animator and film director, Lotte Reiniger.

 

This was a DT/Art project and each of the puppets have articulated arms and a basic mechanism (lever) to create moving parts. The children worked very hard to make these and have really enjoyed testing and evaluating them through their performance.

 

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