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 101 Drama Games and Activities

101 Drama Games and Activities by David Farmer is a collection of highly effective games and exercises suitable for children, young people and adults. Now one of the best-selling books on educational drama!  

'Belongs amongst the top 10 books any director or drama teacher should own'
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Drama Courses

Book now for these one-day courses in 2009 with David Farmer!
Saturday 3 October 2009 Developing Directing Skills
Wednesday 14 October 2009 Primary Drama INSET Day
Saturday 7 November 2009 Drama for Children with SEN
Saturday 14 November 2009 Extending Directing Skills
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New Course Dates

Booking is now open for three courses in the Autumn term 2009:

Developing Directing Skills on Saturday 3 October and Primary Drama INSET Day on Wednesday 14 October are both led by David Farmer. Guest tutor Dr Melanie Peter leads Drama for Children with Special Educational Needs on Saturday 7 November.  Click on the links for further information and to download the details/booking form.

A new course led by David Farmer, Extending Directing Skills takes place on Saturday 14 November.  Details for this will appear shortly.

 
Developing Directing Skills
  • Saturday 3rd October 2009
  • Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1
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This unique one day course gives you an opportunity to explore many of the skills required in directing a play for the stage. With an emphasis on a practical approach, participants work with professional theatre director David Farmer in considering how to tell a story through performance. Topics include: finding ways into a script, blocking a scene, sub-text, character development, ensemble working, physical theatre, mime and movement. The day is suitable for teachers, drama workers, actors, amateur or semi-professional theatre directors and anybody else who would like to extend their skills.


 
Primary Drama INSET Day
  • Wednesday 14th October 2009 10.30am - 4.30pm 
  • Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1
Primary Drama INSET Day at Toynbee Studios This popular one-day training course on primary drama techniques with David Farmer is aimed at teachers working with the primary age-range (5-11) and suitable for staff new to drama or those looking for a refresher course. The practical approach will leave you inspired, refreshed and with a skill-set of dramatic ideas and techniques for teaching primary drama lessons and workshops in schools or drama clubs.
 
Learning through Drama for Children with Special Educational Needs
  • Saturday 7th November 2009 
  • Led by Dr Melanie Peter, Senior Lecturer in Education, Anglia Ruskin University
  • Taking place at Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1
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This practical course explores the importance of drama for enabling all children, including those with Special Educational Needs (SEN), to learn through imagined experience.  Using role-play is key to them developing awareness and understanding of others’ perspectives and how to influence the course of events.  Drama also offers children, including those with SEN, the potential for meaningful and coherent learning that integrates aspects from across the curriculum towards addressing their holistic needs.

 A developmental approach will be taken, for working with those children at the earliest stages of learning with severe and complex needs to inclusive groups. The course explores the conditions needed to support meaningful learning through drama, and appropriate strategies (including teacher-in-role), with consideration of implications for planning drama activity for children with SEN.  

There will be an opportunity to review video footage of drama teaching, and to discuss issues for participants’ professional contexts. Although illustrative content during the day may be pitched more at children, the approach is adaptable for working with adults with a range of needs, and includes transferable approaches to planning drama activity and consideration of issues for working with groups with diverse needs.

 

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