What we can offer schools

    
Our work aims to help young people lead healthy life styles, enjoy working with others and build personal confidence as well as skills in the Arts. Students are encouraged to: engage in a process of decision-making, work with others in a positive way, perform/share their work with others and evaluate their experiences.

Phase One – Little Steps

(Half day/Whole Day workshops)

Students work with a company member on either their own school site or a site in their local community. They will use aspects of the performing arts to explore ideas and produce a performance/sharing of their ideas at the end of the workshop.

Workshops are run by theatre professionals and are carefully structured and tailored to meet the needs of the curriculum.  Young people find our work unusual and exciting, as it encourages a personal response to their environment. This is done by developing skills in both performance and group work, as well as exploration using the arts.

'It was very strange but very enjoyable'

The workshop made you 'think in different ways'

'Fun, interesting, new and challenging'

Workshops have taken place in school gardens, libraries, and other venues in the schools local area.

Phase Two – Big steps

(Projects extending beyond a single day)

The aim of this phase of the project is to work closely with a group of children/young people in a chosen environment off the school site.

Includes:

Initial visit to the site by student who will photograph, video and make notes about their response to the chosen site.
Exploration and research of further ideas within the school environment through the performing arts with the help of performance artists/teachers from the company over a set period defined by the school.
Preparation of a performance to take place at site chosen.
Perform to an invited audience at the site chosen.
Evaluation

Some comments from students who have been involved in one of our workshops:

'It was really helpful and also great fun'

'I learnt that you can do drama anywhere'

It was really good because there were loads of different activities'

'It was something different and I was not expecting it'

'I learned to work with people I don't usually work with'

'I learnt to be more confident in front of people'

'I learnt to make my drama work interesting and unusual'