Upper Trans School Sleepover
On Wednesday, Upper Trans spent the night at school during their very exciting school sleepover. Wednesday morning started with an introduction to the magical world of the Harry Potter movies, as the children gathered in one classroom to watch the start of the Philosopher's stone. After an early lunch, the children and teachers were then off to Watford to enjoy looking behind the scenes of the movies at the Harry Potter Studio Tour.
The children started with a movie Maths workshop, where they were shown how important Maths is within the film industry. They were then able to see some exclusive props including Hagrid’s trousers and the fake head worn by Hagrid’s stunt double! This lead to some brilliant learning about the use of scale factors to make Hagrid look half giant compared to the rest of the cast. The children were then helped to design their own prop for the movie and to scale it down for Hagrid’s use.
After the workshop, it was on to the tour itself. The children loved being able to see the actual sets from the movies and the costumes worn by the actors. Highlights included stepping aboard the Hogwarts express, pulling up Mandrakes in herbology and seeing the scale model of Hogwarts.
At 8pm, it was back on the bus to school to get ready for a sleepover in the school hall. On arrival back at school, the children were welcomed home with a delivery of pizza, which they ate while watching Harry Potter of course!
After a good night's sleep, the activities started again on Thursday with the designing of potions that will be brewed next week. The two days were capped off by a fantastic visit from our friends at Feathers and Fur Falconry Centre, who brought in four owls for the children to meet.
They met with a barn owl, a tawny owl, a Eurasian eagle owl and of course a snowy owl just like Hedwig! The impressive flight of barn owl and the expressive eyebrows of Norman the eagle owl were a brilliant way to end the children’s two day experience!
