Monkey’s got talent….children’s hospice primate day!
Monkey’s
got talent children’s hospice primate day 2010
On the 12th June, siblings from Noahs ark children’s hospice in Islington took part in a yebo primate day. For this group the theme, ‘Monkey’s got talent’ was chosen.
The children spent time learning about primates from all over the wolrd and watched a film about the feelings and behaviours that monkeys have. They also watched monkeys with disabilities in the film. Some of the children may have brothers or sisters with disabilities so the day was based on working together as a team, getting to know eachother and relating humans to primates through their feelings and behaviours. 
The children then split into groups and each thought of a situation that a primate family would go through in the jungle. Some of the groups came up with having a family member that gets lost in the trees and the others are sad because of this. Others came up with having too many bananas, letting a gang of bad monkeys steal them. The children planned all these stories and then decided how they wanted to show this in the group. Some of them decided they would do the dancing, others did th
e music and made musical instruments, played the sounds on the keyboard and also listened to their favourite music tracks on the CD player. Others made up dances and dressed up as monkeys using the music and costumes. The script writers decided to be part of the play by dressing up as trees, and holding up the story boards as they went along.
The children all practised and rehearsed their play and a lot of fun was had. They made many props such as leaves, bananas and fruit which was all used in the dressing up costumes that some of them made. Others put on the fluffy monkey suits!
With our backdrop covered with 3 red buzzer crosses with Simon, Louis and Amander written underneath, it was time to try to impress the judges, to win a place in the finals!
Our judges who we named Simon, Louis and Amanda sat in the three chairs in front of the stage, ready for the performance.
The children put on their play, using their dancing, costumes, music and creative story writing. After the play our version of Ant and Dec asked the team how they thought it went? The children said they thought it went well, and getting into the finals would mean so much to them as they have been practising for this moment!
The judges were then asked for their comments, with Amanda and Louis both expressing a lot of positive feedback, and Simon who commented that when he first saw them in the audtion process, he thought that they would never be that good, and that they had now impressed him and thought that they were in with a good chance of winning the whole competition!
The children then watched their performance back on the projector screen so they could see their creative play that they had put on.
The children were all very excited as they were put through to the final!
So lets see in the final if they can win…..
Monkey’s got talent 2010!
Laura Harrison leads the Noahs Ark siblings days. Noahs ark is a children’s hospice service supporting children who are not expected to reach their 19th birthday. Siblings days are an important part of the support that is given to all of the family members. Siblings days give the children a chance to share their lives with eachother, as well as making new friends and having lots of fun!