The Arrival - Summer Term
The Arrival is a two phase project between Half Moon, Thomas Buxton Junior School and Swanlea Secondary School. The project consists 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 use as, the stimulus of the work The Arrival, a graphic novel that explores migration and settlement by Shaun Tan. The groups are responding 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 concludes with an opportunity for the young people from the two schools to come together at Half Moon to share what they have done and create a new piece of work together.
At the end of the day the participants were asked to create a sculpture based on the question
"What has been important to you today?"
A joint Thomas Buxton / Swanlea school performance in the spring term 2009 is one of the objectives of this drama process.
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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.
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Primary Drama Club
Half Moon's next Primary Drama Club session will be taking place in the Autumn Term. If would like to find out more information about the Primary Drama Club, or 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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