Boarding in Mater - dancing and laughter
Boarding at Kilgraston offers many benefits including a fun-filled timetable of weekend activities. Find out more about what Mater got up to this weekend.
What is boarding in Mater like? Fun, energetic and full of laughter is probably the best way to describe it.
So when Boarding Mistress Miss Smith opted for a virtual session with Strictly Come Dancing winner, Oti Mabuse, we knew it was going to be all of the above and much more.
We started off with a vote on whether to learn a ‘The Greatest Showman’ themed dance or a ‘Frozen’ themed one, the girls went with ‘The Greatest Showman’. Oti and her husband, Marius Lepure, led us through a series of moves to create a one minute 30 second dance routine to ‘The Greatest Show’. It was very dramatic and it was a lot of fun.
Later that day, Miss Smith led the girls in a series of improvisation games and activities. We started with a bit of ‘Wish, Wash’ before moving into a game called ‘You! Yes!’ – both of these games got the girls thinking about the importance of eye contact, and clarity of voice and gesture. We then moved onto playing a game called ‘Sevens’.
Then Montse bravely led us in a rhythm game, which tested our ability to keep a rhythm AND listen closely to each other. We then played a game simply called ‘Numbers’ – the aim of the game was to try and get the ‘Queen’ out of her chair by catching her out. If you spoke too slowly or you hesitated in your decision, then it was the ‘Peasant’ chair for you!
Our last game of the day was the hilarious ‘Emo-Taxi’ – with Maria as the taxi driver. This game means every time a new person gets into the taxi, the rest of the taxi has to adopt the emotion of that new person whilst carrying on with their conversation. This results in the mood of the taxi changing at warp speed and someone who was previously very angry about their destination suddenly becomes incredibly happy about their destination.
We ended our day with a Karaoke session in the Theatre. The girls danced and sang to pop-tastic hits like ‘What Makes You Beautiful’ by One Direction and ‘Waka Waka’ by Shakira before someone suggested a few rounds of ‘Just Dance’. Cue all the girls lined up in the theatre following the Russian folk-dance moves for ‘Rasputin’ by Boney M then strutting their stuff to Kei$ha’s ‘Tik Tok’.
What a day: we all fell into our beds exhausted but certainly well entertained!
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