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Educators > Secondary Schools & Colleges
Half Moon runs a diverse range of projects for secondary school age pupils. All of the projects below are available and in addition we can commision and create bespoke projects for your group please see the previous projects for examples or contact us to discuss your ideas and requirements.
Tower Hamlets Drama Teachers Forum • Creative & Media Diploma • Southwark Engagement • Careers In Theatre • Transitions • Oaklands Lighting Course • Scriptworks • Previous Projects
Jump to a specific project by using the links above or scroll down to read them all.
For more information on any aspect of our Secondary School work please call 020 7709 8908 or email the Projects Manager
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Tower Hamlets Drama Teachers Forum
In collaboration with local secondary schools, Half Moon organises Tower Hamlets Drama Teachers Forum. The sessions provide an opportunity to meet other drama teachers in the borough and to discuss curriculum and other relevant issues. This forum is teacher led.
The focus for the meetings can be decided by you. If you are keen to share a particular skill, would like advice about a certain exam paper or if you have an interest that you'd like to explore with the group then let us know.
The sessions are free, so now's the time to make the most of it!
Julia Williams, Drama Teacher and Chair of the Forum, is keen to welcome new members and to hear your ideas for practical sessions or topics for debate. To register interest in the next forum or add any items to the agenda please call the Projects Manager on 020 7709 8908 or email the Project Manager
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Creative & Media Diploma
The diploma is one of several projects that the company is delivering in partnership with schools and colleges in the London Borough's of Southwark and Tower Hamlets. In our home borough, Half Moon is one of the endorsing partners.
In December we will work with a new group of students from Southwark College who as part of the diploma will spend two weeks intensive 'work experience' at Half Moon during which they will work with a musician, writer and lighting designer culminating in a final performance. This project is being run in partnership with Southwark Theatres Education Partnership (STEP).
Click here for more info about the Creative and Media Diploma
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Southwark Engagement Programme
From Autumn 2009 Half Moon is offering a 35 day programme for a group of students from across Southwark schools with an interest in the performing arts.
Spread across three academic terms the programme will give 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 will also have the opportunity to gain an Arts Award - a nationally recognised qualification.
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Transitions Project
This project was piloted in 2008 and has since been repeated in three clusters of schools in 2009.
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2009 saw St Paul's Way, George Greens and Oaklands partnering up with neighbouring primary 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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Transitions is a four-phased programme of activity working directly with Year 6 classes in a number of primary schools and a selected group of Year 7 ambassadors from a local Secondaryl. The project aims to offer the young people an opportunity to be involved in an active consultation on how they like to learn, the environment they like to learn in and the transition from Primary to Secondary school.
The programme consists of a series of drama workshops in the school environment, along with a forum theatre session at Half Moon's base and a visit for the Year 6 students their partner secondary school with the Year 7 ambassadors acting as 'tour guides'.
In the orginal pilot each phase was being recorded by a documentary film-maker, eyeline productions. The final DVD includes footage of the process and young people's. If you would like to see the DVD please send us an email.
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ScriptWorks
ScriptWorks is Half Moon's successful new writing/performance project which can be adapted for all school years. During this project students work with a writer, director and designer to create a piece of theatre which they then perform at Half Moon.
Most recently, in July 2009, Sir John Cass Redcoat Foundation took part in a ScriptWorks with writer Paul Morris and director Thierry Lawson. The group explored the topic of missing persons and the toll that it takes on friends and family.
Missing
SANDRA: My mum reckons we should put up a prayer flag.
ROBERTA: What's that
SANDRA: A piece of cloth that you write down your wishes on - then you tie it on to a stick and ram it into the ground. And when the wind blows on the flag she says it will take all our wishes into different directions. |
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The ScriptWorks structure:
Stage One
Eight sessions each an average 1.5 hours.
- These sessions focus on basic dramatic skills and approaches to writing. Skills include improvisation, dialogue, understanding text, staging, physical theatre and character work.
- During these sessions participants begin to develop a performance piece with the assistance of the writer and director who are present throughout the sessions.
- There is an element of set design integrated into the sessions, encouraging participants to approach ideas from an artistic angle and look at theatre as a multi faceted medium.
- By week 6 a script is produced and the final 2 weeks are spent rehearsing and developing the piece in readiness for the two day intensive.
2nd Stage
Rehearsal and performance
A two-day intensive at Half Moon YPT
- The first day is spent rehearsing the script. A team of participants work with a set designer; there is also be a lighting designer present and an element of sound design. A stage manager is present throughout, to ensure that participants gain a deeper understanding of the professional theatre process.
- The second day consists of a technical and dress rehearsal culminating in a performance open to friends and family.
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Careers in Theatre
2009 now open for booking
Phase One dates available: 14-16, 20-22 October 2009 (see below for details)
Cost: £10+VAT per student
Places are limited so please contact us now to secure a place for your group.
email us or phone 020 7709 8908
Careers in Theatre gives students who may be in the process of making curriculum choices, or considering employment in theatre a practical insight into the business, technical and artistic aspects of professional theatre practice.
Lighting designers from Bethnal Green Technology College
and George Green's Secondary School designed spectacular effects
Phase One: Taster Programme
Each day for up to two weeks a group of up to 50 students per day will work collaboratively with a range of professional arts practitioners to create a contemporary theatre production.
They:
- Use negotiating and planning skills within the process of theatre making.
- Made artistic and technical decisions throughout the process.
- Work collaboratively with students from other schools & colleges.
The students use as a stimulus extracts from new plays which are currently in development as part of the Half Moon's commitment to supporting new writing for young people.
The acting group, supported by a stage management, lighting, sound and design crew made up of their peers, will bring these pieces to life. By developing this work directly alongside young people, the script is enriched with an authentic language, portraying diverse cross cultural inner-city life.
Each group focuses on their own particular specialism separately throughout the day, supported by a Stage Management team from Rose Bruford College. The groups come together at the end of the day and combine each element to create a short piece of theatre in response.
Set design students from Central Foundation Girls' School
created an intricate set complete with moving cage
Phase Two: Careers in Theatre Conference
March 2010 (dates tbc)
We will be offering a one-day conference for students who have already shown a strong interest and enthusiasm for a career in the arts. This phase of the project is a progression from Phase One, where students have the opportunity to meet professionals from many aspects of the arts, including actors, writers and tutors from colleges and universities. Students will investigate routes into potential careers as well as take part in practical sessions.
Stage Managers from Langdon Park Secondary School
prepare for the Production Meeting
Phase Three: Work Experience at Half Moon
Students who have participated in the earlier phases have the possibility of spending one or two weeks at Half Moon on a work experience placement in order to gain knowledge and experience of the range of jobs and opportunities (creative, administrative and technical) that contribute to producing a piece of theatre.
An actor from Stepney Green Secondary School waits to begin the final performance
If you want to find out more about a career in theatre the following websites contain some useful information:
The Council of Drama Schools www.drama.ac.uk
National Council for Drama Training www.ncdt.co.uk
The Association of British Theatre Technicians www.abtt.org.uk
Society of British Theatre Designers www.theatredesign.org.uk
Professional Lighting and Sound Association www.plasa.org
Get Into Theatre www.getintotheatre.org
Creative Choices www.creative-choices.co.uk
or check our Half Moon work experience
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