80's Day Write Up

To embrace the 1980's theme we had an 80's dress up day. This meant we wore 80's outfits/ accessories as research rather than sitting at a computer all day. We got into groups based on what time during the 80's we were dressed up as. Then we had to design 5 boards in the style of the groups fashion era. These would be used in a presentation with relevant 80's music. One group represented woman empowerment and wore neon coloured leg warmers and hair bands. Their boards were decorated in this fun, lively vibrant style. They then performed a dance showing the boards to 80's music. Another group represented the club rave scene so designed their boards with words like 'rave' and smiley faces symbolising drugs. They performed a dance to 80's music. My group represented the early-mid eighties as I was wearing a Katherine Hammnet style t-shirt. We painted 'PEACE, 'SAVE THE FUTURE', EDUCATION NOT MISSILES', 'USE A CONDOM' and 'CHOOSE LIFE' across our boards. These were all slogans Katherine Hammnet used on her t-shirts. For our presentation we walked robotically to 80's music showing out protest boards then screamed out each message before praying at the end. This was to symbolise that we were praying for these changes and the less loud and lively approach was to keep the emphasis on the protest messages.