Workshops 5 - 11 Years
Below is a selection of workshops that are suitable for this age group. Please use this menu to help select your choice.
Storytelling
What's involved?:
Using cultural based tales our storytellers can inject entusiasm into geography or english based topics as well as issues based in PSHE. Puppetry can also be included in this package
Age Group: 5 - 11 year olds
Length: 0 - 2 hr's
What's needed?: A classroom or empty space
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Story Creation
What's involved?:
Trouble being creative? Children not knowing what to write? Using our the skills of our drama practitioners and story creation techniques can allow your children to create new stories.
Age Group: 7 - 11 year olds
Length: 1, 2, 4, 8 hrs
What's needed?: A classroom or empty space
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Superhero Workshop
What's involved?:
Ever wanted to be a superhero? Using our workshop your children get a chance to create a universe, superhero and supervillian as well as a basic plot and comic book. Great for teaching describing words, settings, character and plot development, narration and speech.
Age Group: 7 - 11 year olds
Length: 1, 2, 4 hrs
What's needed?: A large empty space
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Character Building
What's involved: Just started a play? Then this is the perfect workshop for you! Using drama techniques we will help your children create a character. Including voice, movement andline preperation.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: 1 - 4 hrs
What's needed?: A large work space and a copy of the script to analyse
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Mask Making
What's involved: Create your own maks using different materials such as paper mache and paperbags. A perfect chance to let you children create the characters from their literacy based projects or plays.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: 1 - 3 hrs
What's needed?: A classroom. All materials will be provided
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Mask Workshops
What's involved: This is a beginners workshop in using masks. (whether these are some you have created or not. Using simple techniques including mime and emotion enhancement we will transform your children in mask artists in this simple to grasp workshop.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length:1 - 2 hrs
What's needed?: A large space, masks (if you have created your own)
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Physical Theatre
What's involved: This type of theatre will teach your children to use their bodies more to express their performance. We will use drama practitioner techniques to help your children tell their tales through body movements. This can be used with text and mask based workshops as well.
Age group: 7 - 11
Length: 1 - 4 hrs
What's needed?: A large space
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Literacy Enrichment
What's involved: Struggling to get children engaged with literacy? Using our specalised literacy enrichment scheme we can work alongside your curriculum in order to create a programme that will benefit your children in areas that they are struggling. Examples from previous programmes have been used to aid story creation, confidence in performance, character creation and understanding emtions. These are but a few of the programmes that have already been successful in schools.
Age group: 7 - 11
Length: 1 hour - 7 (full term)
What's needed: A large empty space, Dependant on the type of programme selected
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Atmospheric Writing
What's involved: Improve your children's writing by using sensory surroundings and an atmospheric build up to help support their involvement in the writing task. This can be adapted for a variety of topics
Age group: 7 - 11
Length: 1 - 4 hrs
What's needed: A classroom, Projector and speakers (These can be supplied)
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Teacher in role
What's involved: Teacher in role can be used to help engage children in plot and story creation. It helps children also to understand emotions and can be used to aid creative writing. Our drama practitioners will give a basic frame and structure of a story. The final direction of the story will be decided by them as they decide how the story takes place.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: 1 - 2 hrs
What's needed?: A large space |
Murder Mystery
What's involved: Your children become the detectives in this exciting workshop. There has been a murder at Lockley manor and it is up to the children to follow certain tasks to work out who the murderer is. These tasks include poision detection, footsteps and fingerprint analysis as well as questioning the characters in person. This workshop can also be adapted for the lower key stage by changing it from a murder mystery to a missing item.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: 2 hrs
What's needed?: A classroom. All other resources are provided
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Theatre in education
What's involved: Using theatre in education to help deal with sensitive issues in P.S.H.E. Using our group of actors we will put on scenes relating to the particular issues you are dealing with in your curriculum and will use drama techniques to allow your classes to delve into the topic in a safe enviornment.
Age Group: 7 -11
Length: 1-3 hrs
What's needed?: A large space
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Voice explosion
What's involved: Using drama and music based techniques we will allow your children to use their voice to their fullest potential. Helpful for use in plays or singing
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: 1-4 hrs
What's needed?: A large space
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Music
Improvising
What's involved: This workshop teaches a very basic form of improvisation. It will allow your class to create their own music on an improvised basis. This can be based around topics, text, rhythm and sound exploration.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: A large workspace
What's needed?:
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Composing
What's involved: This workshop gets children to compose their own songs using a variety of techniques and sources.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: 1 - 3 hrs
What's needed?: A large workspace
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Voice Training
What's involved: This workshop will help children develop and learn control of their voice. This can help with timing, harmonising and pitch development.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: 1- 3 hrs
What's needed?: A large workspace
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Dance
Modern jive, salsa and tango and ceroc
What's involved: This workshop can be a continuous course that will teach your children a mixture of partner dancing that revolves around modern jive, salsa and tango. Get your children involved with the salsa rhythm and improve their co-ordination.
This form of dancing follows a simple set of rules and is easy to pick up. The company can teach anywhere from Beginner to Advanced classes. With move sets of up to 16 in the beginner class and 240 in the intermediate class there are always plenty of moves to teach. This style of dancing will allow for all the dancers to enjoy themselves and can be taught in one hour sessions.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: No specified length
What's needed?: A largeworkspace, audio system (can be provided if needed)
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Country Dancing
What's involved: Country dancing can help your children work together as a team using this simple dance sequence to help improve their co-ordination and rhythm
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: No specified length
What's needed?: A large workspace, audio system (can be provided if needed)
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Line Dancing
What's involved: This simple sequence dance can really help your children get motivated towards exercise and help improve their co-ordination and motor skills. As well as building upon their music based skills.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: No specified length
What's needed?: A large workspace, audio system (can be provided if needed)
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Devising Dance
What's involved: This workshop can help children develop their own dance performance. This can be based around different topics, texts or music.
Age Group: 7 - 11
Length: 1 - 4hrs
What's needed?: A large workspace, audio system (can be provided if needed)
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