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Key Stage 1 Drama Lesson Ideas

Drama Teaching, Drama Teaching Tips, Features, Primary Drama

A dozen fabulous ideas and helpful books for teaching drama at key stage one.

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Bringing Fairy Tales to Life through Drama

Drama Teaching, Drama Teaching Tips, Features, Primary Drama

Ways to develop fairy and folk tales into rehearsed performances, improvisations, tableaux and oral storytelling.

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Devising Theatre

Directing and Devising, Drama Teaching Tips

Devising Theatre – games, links, exercises, practitioners and inspirational quotes

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Top 5 Books for Teaching Shakespeare to Children and Young People

Directing and Devising, Drama Teaching, Drama Teaching Tips, Features

These days Shakespeare can be taught to children and young people in very exciting and active ways – and there are numerous recent books to help teachers. These books bring alive the stories, characters, settings and language through lively games and exercises...Read more

Make your own frog and toad puppets

Drama Teaching Tips, Primary Drama

Norwich Puppet Theatre teach you to make a toad puppet

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Podcasts and Webinars with David Farmer

Drama Teaching, Drama Teaching Tips, ELT, Features

Podcasts and Webinars about drama teaching featuring drama consultant David Farmer

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Music for Drama Workshops

Directing and Devising, Drama Teaching, Drama Teaching Tips

A playlist of music for drama workshops, rehearsal or performance, including warm-ups, movement pieces and atmospherics.

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How to Direct a Show Online

Directing and Devising, Drama Teaching Tips

Is it possible to continue rehearsals for a youth theatre production with a cast of 33 during the coronavirus crisis?

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Teaching Drama One to One

Drama Teaching Tips

Therapeutic drama one-to-one, online and offline – an interview with Janine Oxley.

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7 Levels of Tension

Acting, Directing and Devising, Drama Teaching Tips, Features

The 7 levels of tension are used to explore the dynamics of a character, scene or improvisation.

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