In the Past . . .

Environment Club

The Environment Club at Blacklock was led by Ms. Johnson and Ms. Lou Lou. We had a fun year raising awareness about recycling within our Blacklock Community. We also held a plant sale raising funds for the construction of garden plots to hold healing herbs and indigenous plants.

BFA Productions

This leadership team, BFA Productions, was responsible for filming, editing, and producing videos that display life around Blacklock Fine Arts Elementary School. Students in the production company were trained to use various technology, and received instruction on storyboarding, camera angles, interviewing techniques, video editing, and much, much more! The company met once a week after school, as well as during various lunch hours. Members were also occasionally asked to film special events in other classrooms or to record school assemblies and performances.

The Blacklock Twirlers

The Blacklock Twirlers performed in the school talent show. They shared some of their newly acquired skills. 

Creative Outplay

was an exciting extra-curricular performance club at Blacklock Fine Arts. After auditions in early September, the group of 20 grade four and five students rehearsed a few times a week, both during lunch and after school. Throughout the year they were involved in a number of shows that creatively integrated drama and dance. Performances were written, directed, and choreographed by Angela Schmuland and Cheryl Hillier (drama and dance teachers), and shows always included student improvisation and choreography as well as prop building. Shows were always performed for the Blacklock community of students and parents, and towards the end of each school year, students from Douglas Park, Langley Fine Arts, and a few other elementary schools were invited to view Creative Outplay’s special matinee performances.

One of Creative Outplay’s most popular shows was “Would” (June 2012). In it, two characters find a piece of plywood and through dance, mime, and comical interplay, discover a multitude of uses for it. Another favourite was “The Midgkins” (June 2010), a show where three fairy-like Midgkins shrink down a boy and take him on a journey to find Skice, the Ice Queen. Once they find her, they use the help of the Pebble People to weaken Skice and get back their Spring Hums, enabling them to warm away winter and bring on spring. Creative Outplay also performed “A Whimsical Adventure,” a show full of huge puppets, audience participation, and lots of magic! Tink and Fergus enlist the help of the Whimsical Children help them go on an adventure to find his lost courage.

Pacific Theatre in Vancouver (The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe). Theatre critiques written by some of our students: http://www.soulfoodvancouver.blogspot.ca/2013/01/kids-say-darndest-things-wardrobe.html

TWU review of Blacklock Fine Arts year-end show:

https://twu.ca/about/news/general/2009/puppets-with-purpose.html