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Educators > Early Years & Primary Schools Current Projects
Lyrical Laps • Tower Hamlets CPD sessions • Family Engagement • Mini Beasts • The Arrival • Creative Classrooms • Tower Hamlets Primary Teachers Drama Club • Previous Projects
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For more information on any aspect of our Early Years & Primary School work please call 020 7709 8908 or email the Projects Manager
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Half Moon have recently been appointed London's only Earlyarts Pathfinder partner. Earlyarts offers a range of resources and is the largest professional development network for people working creatively with children and families in the arts, cultural and early years sectors. For more information about Earlyarts and their professional development click here.
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Family Engagement - Journey Together
The current term has finished but the new term will start again in September 2010, dates and times TBC. Let us know if you are interested and we will send you full details once they are confirmed.
Family Engagement extends our youth theate provision for young people, creating two 'Youth Theatre' groups for children under 5 and their parents/carers to participate in together during weekly daytime sessions on Wednesdays.
The sessions will offer a safe and nurturing environment for families providing them with lots of skills that can be used at home and preparing them for the transfer into formal education. We will work with local Children's Centres to form these groups.
Places at these sessions are very limited so If you would like more information about joining please contact the Projects Manager 020 7709 8908 / youth@halfmoon.org.uk
Half Moon's Family Enagement programme is made possible by funding from Lloyds TSB Foundation.
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Lyrical Laps
April - May 2010
An afterschool literacy and spoken word project for Key Stage 1.
Eight schools across Tower Hamlets have been participating in a dynamic video, spoken word, poetry and drama project. Using a letter of the alphabet as a stimulus students have been exploring poetry and words and devising their own pieces of spoken word.
The students spoken word pieces were videoed, edited and woven together with other groups' to create an audiovideo installation at Half Moon which was then experienced by schools and members of the public.
The Lyrical Laps project was funded by Tower Hamlets Extended Schools and run by school staff with support from Half Moon and a DVD resource created especailly by Half Moon.
The Lyrical Laps installation has now finished, thanks to all those of you who visited. If you would like more information about Lyrical Laps or to discuss the possibility of having a Lyrical Laps project in your school then please contact us.
youth@halfmoon.org.uk / 020 7709 8900
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Transitions Project
An inter-school project to prepare young people for the transition to Secondary school. The project works with pupils in Primary school years 5 & 6 and pairs them with Year 7s from a local Secondary school.
This project was piloted in 2008 and has since been repeated in three clusters of schools in 2009.
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In 2009 Clara Grant, Cubitt Town, St Paul's with St Lukes, Columbia Road Primary and Harbinger partnered up with neighbouring Secondary Schools to take part in Transitions as part of Find Your Talent.
The programme put particular emphasis on:
•Supporting parents
•The pupil voice
•Students with special needs or those at risk of falling into the NEET category.
•Developing CPD among transitions staff.
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For further details of Transitions please click here.
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Mini Beasts
Get down with the creepy crawlies in this outdoor project for early years groups.
A specially designed workshop exploring play in outdoor spaces. The session is a fun drama based investigation of the insect life in our gardens, parks, allotments and open spaces. Giant leaves, grass and tunnels allow for an interactive sensory exploration in a workshop that encourages families to play together.
This workshop has just succesfully been run with a local parents and childminders group and is now available for booking for other early years groups and primary schools.
Please contact us for more information about booking this workshop.
020 7709 8903 or email
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Primary Scriptworks
Half Moon's popular programme for secondary schools has been adapted for younger age groups. A writer, designer and director work with a group in either after school or school time sessions, culminating in the students performing at Half Moon's venue with full technical support.
Schools can choose a subject matter to explore or allow one to develop organically over the course of the sessions.
Please contact us for more information about this programme.
020 7709 8903 or email
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Primary Drama Club
Half Moon's regular Drama Club for Primary School teachers will next be meeting at the theatre on Thursday 8 October , 4.30 – 6pm.
This will be a fun and creative session, perfect if you've never used drama before, if you want to come along just to refresh your ideas, or grab some new ones for your toolkit.
Please email / phone 020 7709 8908 Amy the Projects Manager to reserve your space (participation is free of charge).
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Creative Classrooms
Creative Classrooms was developed in partnership with four Tower Hamlets primary schools that expressed a desire to explore the possibilities of drama as a cross curricula learning tool and empower the teachers to gain new skills. From the outset it was imagined that the programme would involve drama that took topics from both the National Curriculum and the International Primary Curriculum, as it's starting point and be delivered by a combination of teachers and drama practitioners.
Each of the four schools receive the programme in two phases and we work with each of the schools to support them in continuing the work in a third phase.
Phase 1 consists of a scheme of work planned for each school and delivered by two drama workers, with the teachers in a supportive and observational role. Phase 2 consists of a new scheme of work planned and this time delivered by the teachers with the support of one drama worker. Each phase of the programme is supported by active planning/training sessions and a thorough evaluation. A third phase of the programme supports the teachers in embedding drama as a teaching and learning methodology across the curriculum, each class teacher is being supported in planning a scheme of work and is being observed in delivery by the programme director.
To download a report on the pilot of this project click here.
For further information about any of the activities Half Moon run for this age range, please contact the Projects Manager on 020 7709 8908 or by email.
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