Welcome to Le Carnaval des Animaux
Carnival Online supports the Carnival des Animaux project taking place in Lancashire and Cumbria during 2008. Visit Carnival Online regularly to discover more about current and forthcoming Carnival events, and find out how your school can take part.
Carnival Online is a continuously updated base for additional resources.
These will include:
• Teacher materials
• Songs
• Video and audio
• Resources for interactive whiteboards
Carnaval des Animaux is an ambitious project based on Saint Saens’ musical Mardi Gras celebration. It will provide opportunities for schools, music services, musicians, artists and to explore collaborative and sustainable ways of working through actual and virtual concerts, workshops in schools and in the community.
Activities and possibilities will be underpinned by a combination of online support, CD Rom, and podcasting.
Carnaval des Animaux
encourages children to devise solutions to a range of challenges across many curriculum areas. These include:
• composing music and performance poetry to reflect animal behaviour
• interpreting animal behaviour through movement
• researching and designing habitats and spaces
• designing costumes and masks and planning, organising and realising carnival processions
Carnaval des Animaux
• Supports Every Child Matters through promoting enjoyment and achievement through the arts
• Pioneers new and sustainable ways of helping artists and local music services to work collaboratively
• Supports innovative ways of promoting music through ICT
• Celebrates diversity and promote inclusive communities
• Supports Wider Opportunities initiatives in music
Latest Project News
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April 28, 2008
Narrative Ideas
Zozo’s stories demonstrate aspects of myths and fables. The following activities have been written with the Giraffe’s Neck (CD Rom: Stories and Rhymes) in mind. The Giraffe’s Neck could inspire children to write their own stories focusing on animals’ defining characteristics: giraffe-neck, kangaroo-hop, rhinoceros-horn, lion-mane, tiger-stripes etc, describing how an animal gained one its features.
It would be helpful if children have already studied the characteristics of creatures featured on the CD Rom in the Meet the Animals and Spaces and Places sections.
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April 17, 2008
Mary Anning Videoconference session
The Natural History museum is offering free interactive videoconference sessions during Summer term 2008 featuring Mary Anning, the pioneering nineteenth century fossil hunter.
To find out how Mary Anning relates to le Carnaval des Animaux, see Kevin Hamel’s posting Mary Anning – Fossil Princess! Sessions and places are limited – so book early!
Requirements
1) You must register with the JANET videoconferencing service (JVCS) before booking with the museum
2) You will need access to videoconferencing equipment
Further Information
Click here to find out more about the sessions and availabilityBooking
To book a session, tel. 020 7942 5555Download
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April 16, 2008
Mary Anning - Fossil Princess!
In Carnival of the Animals, Saint Saëns pokes fun at old tired tunes, which ought to be buried and forgotten. His musical fossils include French folk songs, and even his own Danse Macabre. Saint Saens also has fun at the expense of amateur nineteenth century fossil hunters, and the ‘chippy’ sound of the xylophone recalls the sounds of small hammers tapping away at cliff-side fossil beds during days out at the seaside.
Nineteenth century fossil hunter Mary Anning (1799 – 1847) was called ‘The Princess of Palaeontology’. Her contribution to our understanding of the fossil record is highlighted by the Natural History Museum in a series of free KS2 videoconference events for schools. Sessions are accompanied by a set of excellent teachers’ resources, linked with the QCA Science schemes of work. Contact the Natural History Museum on 020 7942 5556
Mary Anning and her father explored the cliff-side fossil beds near Lyme Regis, selling finds to tourists. A fall led to her father’s death, and Mary, her mother and her brother were left penniless. The two children started collecting fossils full time to scrape a living, selling them from a table outside their late father’s carpenter’s shop.
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February 28, 2008
Carnival Masks - Lesson Plan
Make a mask for the Carnival of the Animals concert at Preston Guildhall on March 17!
Alex and Diane are nationally acclaimed artists working in many educational setting in Cumbria and beyond.
This lesson plan demonstrates ways in which schools can approach the history and social significance of Carnival masks, and offers possibilities for creating simple masks. Download the templates below to teach this lesson.
Alex and Diane work with children and teachers to create exciting and highly imaginative Carnival masks, costumes and structures using a variety of materials and techniques They are available now for workshops in Cumbria and Lancashire schools. Please contact Karen Wond on 01900 325088 for details and booking information
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Vinata Godbole interprets Saint Saens animals through South Indian and Bollywood dance during school concerts, through streamed video and on CD Rom. She will provide optional workshops in schools to help children interpret Saint Saens’ music and their own musical compositions.
Composition and performance workshops in Cumbria and Lancashire schools will be given by members of Cumbria schools’ music curriculum support teams and Lancashire Sinfonietta’s education team.
Wider Opportunities Sierra Leone drumming initiatives in Cumbria and the North West will be supported and developed by workshops and online materials presenting an African perspective of The Carnival of the Animals.
