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5 Creative Drama Ideas For Your Classroom

Drama Teaching, Features, Primary Drama

5 Creative Drama Ideas For Your Classroom Drama uses the greatest resource that teachers have available to them – children’s imagination. Creative play is a natural part of children’s lives before they start school, helping them to make sense of their place in the...Read more

Cinderella – Listen To Me – Restorative Justice (5-11 years)

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Explore bullying issues through the story of Cinderella using drama, writing and restorative justice techniques

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Make your own frog and toad puppets

Primary Drama, Teaching Drama Online, YouTube

Norwich Puppet Theatre teach you to make a toad puppet

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Primary Drama Ideas

Features, Primary Drama

Teaching drama in primary classrooms – a collection of articles, tips, games, strategies, techniques and books

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The King’s Sentence – a world without words

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Lesson plan and original story for KS2 exploring non-verbal communication through gesture and sign language.

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The Musicians of Bremen Script

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Sparkling play script of the Brothers Grimm tale for performance in schools

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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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Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) Waiting for Godot Malvolio (Twelfth Night) (Three actors)Macbeth Enter Macbeth with bloody daggers.LADY MACBETHMy husband?MACBETHI have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?LADY MACBETHI heard the owl scream and the crickets cry.Did not...

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A psychological but fun group dynamics game from Augusto Boal.

1-2-3

A concentration game using counting and actions – tough but fun!

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Bring characters from works of art, book illustrations and photographs to life through drama.

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