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 Teaching, Features, Primary Drama
Drama can provide children with a meaningful purpose for writing. (Extract from ‘Learning Through Drama in the Primary Years’).
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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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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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Download - Primary, Drama Teaching, Primary Drama
A range of drama and storytelling activities based on a traditional Indian folk-tale for KS1 and reception.
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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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Drama Teaching, Drama Tips, Features, Primary Drama
Ten brilliant ideas and worthwhile books for teaching drama at key stage two.
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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
Features, Theatre Companies
Practical exercises exploring the Forkbeard approach Through the Looking Glass To explain Forkbeard’s extraordinary melding of film and live performance, it is useful to show students extracts of their work. A good selection can be found on their DVD The...Read more
Features, Theatre Companies
Key productions Forkbeard Fantasy have produced dozens of shows ranging from On An Uncertain Insect to The Barbers of Surreal, The Brain and Frankenstein. Their plays grapple with big ideas, ranging from the history of cinema to genetic engineering and climate...Read more