Key Stage: 1

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BBC School Radio Broadcast - 3 episodes

Episode Length - 20 minutes

Justin Fletcher presents the music and movement series for 4 - 6 year olds.

The Rescue Party - One of Nick Butterworth's well-known and much-loved "Percy the Park Keeper" stories provides a foundation for movement and dance in character and "in role".

Episode 1 - Animals in the Park - As a "park keeper" the children explore Percy's work-actions - unlocking gates, mending fences, planting plants, pruning trees, mowing grass, sweeping paths and fetching ropes to rescue a baby rabbit who has fallen down a well. As various mammals, pairs explore scurrying, digging, burrowing, lumbering, creeping and scampering movements, all at different speeds. These contrast with bird movements - swooping, flapping and waddling.

Episode 2 - Rabbit Down the Well! - After adding new characters (rabbits skipping, hopping and jumping and new birds flapping and wing-fluttering), this part of the story emphasises co-operative movements. In a circle echo-game, the children mime calling out to the lost rabit. Then the climax is a rope-chain (like a tug-of-war), where everyone heaves together on an imaginary rope to pull out…not a rabbit but an old log. Luckily the rabbit has escaped safely, so all's well that ends well.

Episode 3 - All Pull Together - An opportunity to dance the whole "The Rescue Party" story and to add a small-group laughing dance, "safe and sound". The unit as a whole also provides a talking point for exploring health and safety aspects of movement outdoors, especially in parks and the countryside.

Notes taken from BBC School Radio website. Full teacher notes are included with this resource.

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