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Shortened Shakespeare

Directing and Devising, Features

Recommended shortened versions of Shakespeare playscripts for children and young people to perform.

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Drama Across the Curriculum

Drama Teaching, Features, Primary Drama

Drama strategies can be used as everyday teaching tools for a wide range of subjects. (Extract from ‘Learning Through Drama in the Primary Years’).

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Teaching Literacy Through Drama

Drama Teaching, Features, Primary Drama

Drama is a close ally in the development of literacy, especially speaking and listening.

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Keeping Control in the Drama Lesson

Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, Features, Primary Drama

Classroom Management for Drama Lessons The challenge of managing the classroom during drama could be why some teachers are reluctant to teach the subject. Drama lessons are there to encourage free expression, so doesn’t this just lead to noise, over-excitement...Read more

Drama For Writing

Drama Strategies, Drama Teaching, Features, Primary Drama

Drama provides children with a meaningful and immediate reason for writing.

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Music for Drama Workshops

Directing and Devising, Drama Teaching, Drama Tips

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

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Why Teach Drama to Primary School Children?

Drama Teaching, Features, Primary Drama, Training Resources

Children’s natural tendency towards make-believe play can be utilised at school through structured play and drama.

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Key Stage 1 Drama Lesson Ideas

Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, Features, Primary Drama

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

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Key Stage 2 Drama Lesson Ideas

Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, Features, Primary Drama

12 brilliant ideas, games, lesson ideas and practical books for teaching drama at key stage two (5-12 years).

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Forkbeard Fantasy – Multimedia Theatre of the Absurd – 4

Features, Theatre Companies

Educational programme Forkbeard Fantasy run regular workshops and residencies as an integral part of their artistic programme. Courses range from one-day workshops to their popular six-day residential summer schools, covering film animation, animated props, the...Read more
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Night Watchman

The museum is closed for the night. The watchman is making his rounds. But something strange is going on…

Count To 20

A classic concentration and focus exercise, where the group tries to count to twenty.

Guide to Freeze-Frames and Still Images

Ideas about using freeze-frames in drama, including 50+ ways to use them across the curriculum and a checklist for grading.

Open and Close

A brilliant method of performing a series of freeze-frames to tell a story in a drama lesson.

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