My real visit to St James was a lot of fun. Ms Cross was expecting me but no one else knew that I was on my way! Rolling a big red suitcase behind me, I arrived to a classroom of shocked and stunned faces ( “they had only ever seen my head before”!!). This initial shock soon turned to excitement as we opened up the suitcase and examined its contents. The materials and objects inside had lots of different voices, we listened and found ways to make them sing!

Tapping and shaking, watching and waiting we performed together and a “sound track” unfolded across the classroom floor

Lunch time followed, and the children continued to explore sounds showing me how the things in their lunch boxes also had voices!!

We spent our afternoon creating sound suits, wearing elaborate collections of materials and objects, we jumped and shook and danced our way through the corridors of St James filling them with new sounds, entertaining parents waiting outside and along the corridors. It was time to pack up and hit the road again with the addition of flowers and chocolates to my suitcase I was very happy! Before I left Ryan reminded me the flowers needed water and asked if I would keep them in the studio so that the class could look at them too.