Monday, 18 May and on the M5 northbound heading to the futurelab conference in London I have just had a meeting in school with Michael Loader who is going to come and help me on the first day of the project next week we were talking about how we were going to do the icebreaking theatre performer and artist company called foolworks and I thought it would be great if we could start off with some sort of game to break the ice not really sure what this would be how much the students could get themselves involved straight away from cold. And he can only be with me for an hour which makes it a little bit more difficult than what I had in mind but we discussed it may be the first couple of activities that we might do a lot of it might depend on how the very first few minutes go and how we judge that which is what we do as professionals anyway just test how extreme our first game or two can be

but I’m thinking much more about how we get into the main activity based on the secrets site we could get a few postcards to begin with on which everyone wrote to some secret or other we could start it with being from a bench or a tree or bush or something so it wasn’t personal but it was written in the experience of an object bridge wastepaper bin whatever so basically if they write their secret on a postcard and then they go out into the park and they place their postcard hide it away somewhere in the Park and then they come back and on the map they mark where it is that they have put the postcard and then we go out again and we try and find the postcards so each person comes back with a different postcard that would be the basic plot I think another one might be a listening game where you go blindfolded with a partner and just to sort of exploration of the park without looking which may be a bit too difficult I don’t know it may be simpler just to go to some part of the park and from little while sit down close your eyes and listen and maybe make a record of how many different sounds from one place in the Park just jot down as many different sounds as you possibly can do

so that’s another both useful and an icebreaker and testing the water as to whether we do it blindfold or not and both those the secrets being was getting me back into the idea of the game of consequences that I was talking about a lot in the last project and consequences as a game that a number of people can play so up my sleeve could be a game of consequences anyway as another possibility I don’t know that they could get the same fun out of that as we do as a family that my thinking so far