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Myths

Throughout our Journey

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Creative Movement

Instructions

These resources have been designed to support thematic and holistic learning, set within the context of creative movement, dance, creative games making and creative activities.

Themes

Flee from captor

  • Platform game  characters
    • Sonic
    • Mario

Escape route

  • Scared
  • Run for your life
    • Flee, race, jump, don’t look back, down castle corridors, across courtyards

Create a beginning

  • Why are they there?
  • How did they get there?

Being rescued

  • Magic Spells – invisible, walk through walls, etc.
  • Follow footsteps and pathways

Find a hidden castle

Stealing the key

  • Creep, quiet, tiptoes, silent, stealthily, small gestures, looking around, freeze, gradually, quick, steal, turn and flee

Magic spells

Dragons

  • Megan and the Baby Dragon

Being captured

Explore the dungeon

Crawl, reach, feel, search, lonely, cold, frightened, helpless, plead, all directions, every part of the ‘Bubble’, slowly, cautiously, retreat quickly, try again, cower

Rescue someone

  • How do you wake them up?
  • Are they awake?
  • Do you have to carry them?

Fairy tales

Create an ending

  • Caught, return to dungeon
  • Happy ever after

Media

  • Music

    Shrek Soundtrack, Track 16

    Braveheart Soundtrack

    ‘Hedwig’s Theme’ –
    Harry Potter Soundtrack

    Artist: Big Leaves
    Track: ‘Seithennyn’
    Album: Pwy sy’n Galw? (2000). Crai

    Artist: Patrick Doyle
    Track 9: ‘Harry Sees Dragons’
    Track 10: ‘Golden Egg’
    Album: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) 2005.
    Warner Bros Entertainment Incorporated

  • DVD/Books/Poems

    DVDs

    Shrek, Dreamworks (2001)

    Books

    Traditional Fairy Tales/Welsh Folk Tales
    Val, B., Treasury of Aesop’s Fables
    (2007)

    Lewis, C. S., The Lion, the Witch and
    the Wardrobe (2001)

    Wormell, C., George and the Dragon
    (2003)

    Blackstone, S., and Harter, D.,
    A Dragon on the Doorstep (Book
    and CD) (2006)

    Anderson, H. C., The Snow Queen

    Edwards, M. W. Cantre’r Gwaelod /
    Welsh Folk Tales in a Flash. Y Lolfa

    Edwards, M. W. Famous Welsh Tales.
    Y Lolfa

    Davies, H.E. Creaduriaid Rhyfeddol /
    Fabulous Celtic Beasts (2001) Gomer
    Press

    Howells, G. Merlin’s Magical
    Creatures Translator Thomas, G.
    Creaduriaid Hud Myrddin Ddewin
    (2008) Gomer Press

    Myths and Legends Series of Books
    by Nanna Ryder and Carys Richards
    – Gomer Press