“There’s a rang-tan in my bedroom and I don’t know what to do!”

This week, Y4 have had a fantastic time looking at performance poetry. We started by watching and appraising different performances. We then watched Michael Rosen’s top tips for poetry performance.

Then, we looked at the Green Peace advert featuring the poem “There’s a rang-tan in my bedroom”. This is a moving and very relevant piece as it is themed around deforestation, more specifically destruction for the palm oil industry so links very well with our topic this term. Here’s the original:

We then practiced this poem, considering intonation, pace and expression. Here are some of the results!

Hamdi, Riley, Oliver and Alex.

 

Esme, Summer and Eva

Grace, Alisha, Maycie and Evie

We then innovated the poem, changing elements so that that there was a rang-tan in our classroom!

Here is a brilliant example: