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Creative And Media Diploma •Oaklands Lighting Course •The Arrival • ScriptWorks @ Croydon • We Are Shadows • From the Page to the Stage • Locked In • Meteorwrites • Blowback • Tagged • Drama Skills Workshops

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Creative And Media Diploma

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 part of Southwark's diploma in conjunction with Southwark Theatre Education Partnership.

A group of students were based at Half Moon and contribute to the development of a performance. This componant of the project will be linked with a comparison of another artform and learning will incorporate self assessment, use of technology as well as hands on experience.

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 and culminated in the final performance. The group were even lucky enough to have a visit from Ed Balls MP.

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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. A six week course 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

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.

Working with Year 5's from Thomas Buxton school and Years 7 - 9 from Swanlea school, all of the students used as stimulus for the work, 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.

We have been successfully running ScriptWorks programmes in our East London venue with schools across Tower Hamlets since 2004. This thrilling collaboration with Croydon Clocktower marked the first time we took our expertise in this field to another venue.

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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We Are Shadows, Sept - Oct 2007

To support Half Moon's tour of We Are Shadows, we offered a unique workshop programme which brought the theatre experience directly to the classroom. 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.

The workshop programme was designed as a practical stand-alone session that explored and developed the young peoples theatre craft. It could also be used in conjunction with the teachers resources pack to complete the work of the Edexcel GCSE in Drama Paper 1, Unit 2.

Half Moon also produced a Teachers Resource Pack along with specific downloads for young people that accompanied the show for use in the classroom, you can download them below for free.

Teachers resource pack
A guide to writing your own monologue
A scene by scene breakdown
Audition speeches

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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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Locked In, 2006

To support Half Moon's tour of Locked In, we offered schools our hugely popular education package, developed in direct liaison with GCSE teachers. This included a post-performance workshop that meets the EdExcel GCSE Drama Syllabus Paper 1 Unit 2:

"The whole workshop worked really well; timing, variation of activities, stretching the kids' abilities etc was all very effective."
Teacher, Thomas More Secondary School

"The workshop was fun and the tutor got some people joining in who didn't want to at the beginning."
Students, Glebe School

"Students LOVED the workshop - great animators and very useful for drama! Enormous thanks, the students really enjoyed themselves!" Teacher, Stanley Tech High School