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DRAMA INSET COURSES
Choose from the following exciting courses, which can be delivered as a twilight, half-day or whole day session.
TEACHING LITERACY THROUGH DRAMA
Learn how to bring texts to life through a range of imaginary contexts,
using exciting drama techniques. Traditional stories, picture books, plays
and poems will be used.
Choose from the following texts or ask for a session on your own choice
of text ( this may incur an additional charge).
FOUNDATION STAGE
The Queen of Hearts
KEY STAGE 1
● : Katie Morag and the Two Grandmothers by Mairi Hedderwick
● : The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
● : Voices in the Park by Anthony Brown
● : When My Ship Comes In by Alan Gibbons
• : Golilocks and the Three Bears
KEY STAGE 2
● Red Riding Hood
• Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
• The Party
• Macbeth
• The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
• Pocket Money by Mick Gower
Includes : role-play, decision alley, hot seating, freeze frame, thought tracking, role-on-the wall, improvisation.
DRAMA AND HISTORY IN THE PRIMARY CURRICULUM
A practical course to support and expand classroom history lessons. Learn
how to encourage pupils to understand aspects of history from the personal
point of view of those involved. A variety of resources and stimulus material
will be used.
Curriculum areas : Evacuees
The Victorians
USING DRAMA TO BRING POETRY TO LIFE
You will have the chance to use a range of drama strategies to help pupils to engage with and enjoy poetry.
Includes : role-play, hot seating, role-on-the wall, the collective voice.
A range of poetry will be used.
PRIMARY DRAMA FOR KEY STAGES 1 AND 2
A general course which will enable you to gain the skills, confidence
and knowledge to work effectively with drama in the classroom and across
the curriculum. It will incorporate a number of elements from the other
courses.
Includes : exploring traditional stories, improvisation, freeze frames, dramatic conventions for exploring characters and a host of other Drama techniques.
DRAMA- MAKING IT FUN!
Games and exercises to build confidence and develop social skills and teamwork.
Includes : trust excercises, circle games, whole class games,concentration
exercises.
Course Delivery
The trainer will use a practical, hands on, approach to encourage you to have a go. This will give you the confidence and knowledge to put the learning into practice the very next day!
You will have time for evaluation and reflection within each course in order to share ideas about your learning. This will give you the confidence and knowledge to put the ideas into practice.
Opportunities for writing, linked to the Primary Literacy Framework, will be built into every course. This will help you to develop your pupils' writing skills , particularly as role-play engages children in their work on a very personal level.
All our courses are “bespoke”, designed with you, to meet your specific
training needs. You can focus on your development plans and work with
the trainer to design a relevant course which will benefit all your teachers.
A free comprehensive teachers' pack of resources and support notes will be provided for each school which will enable you to use the ideas developed on the course, and to pass these onto colleagues. For those of you who like to swot up on the thoery, relevant information will also be included to back up the practical nature of the course. This will help you to place Drama within the context of the National Curriculum.