The Piano - Emotions

In English, we're studying the short film 'The Piano'. Some of our work getting to know the characters and their emotions can be found below.

Film Narrative: The Piano

During our film narrative module on The Piano, some absolutely stunning work was produced.  One example is included below. 

 

The lonely old man, whose life was no longer happy but a never-ending pit of sadness, is playing a tune on the piano to keep him accompanied in his word of nothingness.  He is remembering the happy times when he and his wife would play the beautiful, black grand piano together.

Suddenly, someone lowers the anchor, which makes him remember his wife is gone and will never come back.  His smile slowly fades away to be lost in his broken, stone heart.  The lone light bulb flickers but continues to give off light, which highlights the glossy, black grand piano.  His hands continue to play a sad, touching tune which he and his wife played.

While he is playing the piano, he remembers being a medic in the war.  As he thinks, a World War Two medic hat appears on his head!  He reflects on when his friend was shot in the heard while fighting in the war.

"Continue on life, my friend; forget me," says his friend, struggling to get enough air into his lungs to live.

The man sighs heavily, "How could I have agreed to your suicide mission?"  He remembers holding his friend's hand in his, but the grip slowly loosened, the blood stopped pouring out of his wound, his chest stopped moving and his head dropped.  The man cried and cried and mourned, his tears dripping onto his dead friend's cold body slowly, sadly.

Slowly, the ancient, fragile old man's memories of the war fade into him getting the best present he had received in his childhood!  He remembers shuffling impatiently on the uncomfortable, cold, hard, creaky floorboards.  His hands were outstretched, ready for the carefully-wrapped, large, blue box with a beautiful, yellow ribbon to be put into them.  When the gift is placed in front of his knees, he pushes the lid out of the way to reveal what surprise he had got.  A smile lights up his face as his eyes settle on the hobby horse that he would ride until he got too big for it.

Time passes, and the hobby horse is handed down to the old man's grandson and the grandson starts riding around the room on his grandad's hobby horse.  The grandson departs from riding his hobby horse to play the piano with his grandad just as the old man is finishing his beautiful melody line.  The grandson finishes off the tune by pressing a note on the piano as he knew the tune off by heart: his grandad taught him well.  They look at one another with a smile.

Nearly Half Term!

This week in Year 5 we have done so many exciting things like writing about ‘The Piano’ and 5SF made clay pots inspired by Kate Malone. We also did fun things in P.E like yoga, netball and football. We did missing number problems in maths. We learnt some very interesting facts in geography, PSHE and history. 

Hotseating

Busy exploring the thoughts and emotions of the main character in The Piano.  The questions have been crafted into a fingerprint to create a beautiful piece of work before being used to interrogate various members of the class.

Ella F.

The Piano Voiceovers

Amelia D:

Poppy:

Gracie:

Up - Slow Writing

In English, we've slowed down our writing with a 'Slow Writing' task. The children needed to write sentences with certain words or punctuation. Our writing was based upon the start of the film "Up":

The Piano - Some Sentences

Recently, we've been working with the short animation entitled The Piano. Using the iPad devices, we chose scenes from the animation we thought we could write about and wrote over screenshots.

These were written by Elliott, Gracie, Mia, Niamh & Nia.

The Piano Voiceover

We've been studying the animation 'The Piano'. At the end of this work, the children wrote a voiceover for the animation. This is Charlotte's from 5LM:

The Piano - Memes

As part of our English lessons, we've been studying an animation called The Piano.

We created some sentences about parts of the video and wrote these into memes using iPad devices. Some of our work can be seen below.

Millie

Alana

Alyssa

Matthew