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Anneliese Emmans Dean  eco-edutainment info@theBigBuzz.biz
Curriculum Links
Buzzing!
My multimedia Buzzing! show is a fun celebration of garden minibeasts in performance poetry, projected close-up images and music (find out more). A live Buzzing! performance offers a unique cross-curricular creative experience for pupils. On this page you’ll find:
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“Every primary school in the UK should book
this enjoyable show”
Ledbury Reporter, July 2008
read full review
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KS1 + 2 National Curriculum links
General
- Science: Life Processes and Living Things
- English: National Literacy Strategy (Poetry)
- Music
- Topics: Minibeasts; Habitats
- Excellence & Enjoyment
Years 5 & 6 curriculum links
- Science: Life Processes and Living Things, incl. Unit 5B - Life Cycles; Unit 6A - Interdependence and Adaptation.
- English: NLS, incl. Y5 T3 choral & Performance Poems
Years 3 & 4 curriculum links
- Science: Life Processes and Living Things, incl. Unit 4B - Habitats
- English: NLS, incl. Y3, T2 Oral & Performance Poems
NLS:
- The National Literacy strategy recognises poetry as ‘a central aspect of literacy’.
- Buzzing! helps to establish the ‘positive climate for poetry’ called for by the NLS. Find out more
Online follow-up resources
The following BigBuzz blogposts and web links provide useful follow-up information for use after a Buzzing! show.
Science:
- How to make a valuable contribution to science by taking part in bug recording schemes view
- How I made my world-first insect discovery of Berberis Sawfly larvae view
- Video of Berberis sawfly laying its eggs on my berberis bush view
- The latest news on my world-first insect discovery of Berberis sawfly larvae view
- The scientific paper which includes my Berberis sawfly larva sighting view
- Harlequin ladybirds - first sighting in York, how to spot them, what to do if you see them view
- The beetle discovery I made in my garden view
- Also, check out the Nature Detectives website run by the Woodland Trust, with wildlife recording schemes your pupils can get involved in. The site also has dowloadable resources for schools and KS2 curriculum-linked worksheets.
Poetry:
- How I wrote the world’s first ever monodactylian double dactyl view
- The link between Michael Rosen and me view
- Purchase the Buzzing! CD - 62 poems, and over 80 colour photos in accompanying booklet. A National Insect Week recommended resource. view
Music:
- How John Rayson was inspired to write the music that he plays live in Buzzing! view
- More about viola player and composer, John Rayson view
- Where you can buy the score of some of the Buzzing! music to play yourself view
- Where you can buy the CD of John’s Buzzing! music, inspired by the poems and images in Buzzing! view
Art: See Curriculart link
Schools’ Feedback
Here is some sample feedback from the press, teachers, Year 5/6 children and Year 3/4 children. You can read more feedback here.
Press
‘Every primary school in the country should book this enjoyable show’ Ledbury Reporter. Read full article
Teachers
‘Magnificent - Science and Art in an hour! The children were totally engaged and totally inspired! It also inspired me as a teacher!’
Jonathan Green, Archbishop of York C of E Primary School, York
‘Great! I have a personal passion in promoting ‘Fun with Nature’. Your performance was a great way to create interest and awareness and impart facts. It was rockin!’
June Coates, St Oswald’s Primary School, York
‘A resounding success. I regularly hear "Charlie is an earthworm" as I walk round school. The pupils (aged 9 to 12) were spellbound and their vocabulary most definitely enriched.’
Clare Howard-Vyse, St Piran’s School, Maidenhead
Year 5/6
‘I really enjoyed you coming to st oswalds school. Some of the poems you acted out were really funny and cool. You can do really good acsents for the creatures, hehe! Id love you to come again!:)’
Jessie
‘The poems were awasome. Espicially the Charlie was the earthworm’
Manami
‘The show was way cool. I liked the poem about charlie the earthworm
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!’
Kendra
‘You’re well good at poems, you are.’
Anon. boy (Year 5)
Year 3/4
‘It was funny, humorous and amusing and she never let us be bored.’
Lauren, Year 4
‘We thought that she was great she was really exciting and her poetry was really funny and discriptive.’
Amina and Holly
Read more Year 3/4 feedback (pdf)
Buzzing! options:
- 1-hour show with or without live music
- Follow-up workshop(s)
Also available:
- Half-day interactive show + workshop session with one class
- 45-minute interactive show/science workshop for one class
Poetry Workshops
This section is still under construction. Thank you for your patience. For now, please see information on workshops at my Education page.
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