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Southwark Engagement • Creative And Media Diploma • Oaklands Lighting Course • The Arrival • ScriptWorks @ Croydon • We Are Shadows (professional play workshop programme • From the Page to the Stage • Meteorwrites •

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For more information on our secondary school & college work please call 020 7265 8138 or email the Projects Manager
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Southwark Engagement Programme
Autumn 2009
From Autumn 2009 Half Moon worked with Southwark Theatre Education Partnership to offer a 35 day programme for a group of students from across Southwark schools with an interest in the performing arts. The programme gave participants the opportunity to experience live theatre, work alongside professionals, work as part of a theatre company and create and perform a new piece of theatre. The students also had the opportunity to gain an Arts Award - a nationally recognised qualification.
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Creative And Media Diploma
December 2009 - January 2010

Half Moon is a partner in the Creative And Media Diploma delivery in both Tower Hamlets and Southwark. In the Autumn term 2009 Half Moon delivered a module of Southwark's diploma in conjunction with Southwark Theatre Education Partnership.

The students' engagement with Half Moon concluded with a two week intensive 'work experience' style placement during which they worked with a musician, writer, lighting designer to create their own performance piece - The Coin. The group were even lucky enough to have a visit from Ed Balls MP. The Coin, image by Lucy Cave

This componant of the project was linked with a comparison of another artform and learning incorporated self assessment, use of technology as well as hands on experience.
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Oaklands Lighting Course

This bespoke course was created after students had particularly enjoyed this technical skill that they experienced during Careers in Theatre. So a bespoke six week course was created providing an opportunity for the young people at Oaklands School to gain hands on skills, knowledge and experience in designing and operating theatre lighting for performances.

The course covered topics such as Health & Safety, electrical testing, rigging, designing and operating the lights. Every student finished the course with their own lighting design. The course is taught by a professional stage manager and Half Moon's Production Manager and a professional Lighting Designer, whose recent credits include We Are Shadows and Icicle Bicycle.

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The Arrival
2008
The Arrival was a two phase project between Half Moon, Thomas Buxton Junior School and Swanlea Secondary School. The project consisted of individual workshops in each school using practical drama and theatre work to develop the young people's skills, knowledge and creativity.

Students from Year 5 Thomas Buxton school and Years 7 - 9 from Swanlea school, explored, The Arrival, a graphic novel that explores migration and settlement by Shaun Tan. The groups responded to this material through a combination of drama sessions, as well as working with a musician and choreographer to create a music track and movement piece.

The work concluded with an opportunity for the young people from the two schools to come together at Half Moon to share what they had done and create a new piece of work together.

A joint Thomas Buxton / Swanlea school performance project in the spring term 2009 was one of the outcomes of this drama process.
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ScriptWorks @ Croydon

ScriptWorks @ Croydon was an exciting collaboration between Half Moon, Croydon Clocktower and young people from Haling Manor High School culminating in a unique show performed at Clocktower's South London base.

Working with a professional writer, Director and Designer, young people from Haling Manor Years 9 & 10 formed their own theatre company with the aim of creating a new play inspired by Article 13 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

'The child shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of the child's choice.' (Article 13 of the United Nations Conventions)

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Professional production education programmes

Half Moon produces contemporary theatre for teenage audiences. These productions, created in consultation with local young people, are supported by workshop programmes and teaching resources which can be found here.

We Are Shadows, Sept - Oct 2007
To support Half Moon's tour of We Are Shadows, Half Moon offered a workshop programme which brought the theatre experience directly to the classroom and linked with the GCSE curriculum. Each workshop began with a performance of one of the monologues by an actor from the cast and then led into a workshop of either: Acting the Monologue or Writing the Monologue. Teachers resource pack

Similar programmes have been run for Locked In 2006 and Blowback 2005.

"Students LOVED the workshop - great animators and very useful for drama! Enormous thanks, the students really enjoyed themselves!" Teacher, Stanley Tech High School "The whole workshop worked really well; timing, variation of activities, stretching the kids' abilities etc was all very effective." Teacher, Thomas More Secondary School

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From the Stage to the Page, Harpley School

A writer and director worked in Harpley Pupil Referral Unit to create a book of stories with the young people in KS3. All of the stories were devised with the young people using exploratory drama and creative writing activities as the stimulus.

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Meteor Writes, 2006

Four secondary schools in Tower Hamlets worked with a professional writer and director to create their own piece of science-based theatre. The groups met for after-school sessions and used their own ideas and improvisation to come up with the ideas that the writer created into a script.  In Half Term, the groups came to the theatre to rehearse, worked with a set designer and finally presented their finished piece to friends and family.