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Building confidence…………….
Drama workshops
Our Drama consultant, Clare Molyneux has worked in 15 mainstream
and special schools during the last year helping Year 10 & 11
students who may be de-motivated, disaffected or simply lacking confidence,
to improve their self-esteem, manage anger, learn new skills and
become productive team members through drama activities.
Can we help YOUR students?
How do they work?
The project is open to a maximum of 5 schools each term. Due to
its popularity, priority will be given to those schools who
have not
worked with us before.
The project is termly lasting between 13-15 weeks. Clare can
offer schools 1 hour a week of her time. Her workshops can
accommodate between 5 and 30 students. All she needs is a
large classroom!
The drama programme comprises of:
- Voice Projection
- Mental warm ups
- Physical warm ups
- Spontaneous improvisation
- Polished improvisation
- Improvising from a stimulus
- Cooling down (relaxation) games
- Story telling
- Role-play
Self-motivation and motivating others is important in the
workplace and can be learnt though our vocal, physical
and mental warm
ups. The students have fun
whilst learning new skills. Role-play gives the students a chance
to explore themselves, their own feelings and the feelings
of others. They will learn
how to channel their anger in positive ways and develop
coping strategies for difficult
situations.
Other topics can include writing and directing plays and theatre
visits.
On completion of the course students receive gold, silver or bronze
attainment certificates.
Benefits to young people
- Motivates
- Builds confidence
- Team building
- Develops interpersonal skills
- Develops presentation skills
"I have learnt not to be shy and to be more confident"
A student at Toxteth Pupil Referral Unit
Praise from teachers has also followed……….
"All the students have benefited from the physical movements
and being part of a large group. Many students have shown a talent
for taking
on different roles."
Angela Hewitt, Palmerston Special School
For more information please email Clare at claremolyneux@hotmail.com
Theatre in Education - Open the door
This year for the first time Clare can also offer schools 4
NEW plays that deliver key messages to students around
enterprise, being a
teenager, personal, social and health education.
- “Big School” – is a 25 minute play
that covers all aspects of the transition from Year 6 to Year 7,
ranging
from having a new Form Teacher and making new friends to strategies for coping
with bullying. A question and answer session follows.
“What we spend all year trying to teach the pupils, ‘Open the
door’ can do successfully in 25 minutes.”
Bev Lean, TABS, Knowsley Transition Team
Price: Play - £380
Play & educational materials - £450
 “Fair
Start” – Becoming an Entrepreneur
Could you be the next Richard Branson?
This comical 40 minute play covers all aspects of enterprise training
for Years 10 & 11. The play explores the highs
and lows of starting your own business through the
eyes of
3 pupils in Year 10. Whilst
stressing the need for a great idea, hard work and
determination, the play also focuses on how to write
a Business Plan
and how and where to find investors. A question and
answer session follows.
“The play offered a new and fresh way of delivering the importance
of enterprise in our society, how a
good idea can lead to many things. All you need is an idea and determination.”
L Adam , All Saints Catholic High School, Merseyside
Price: Play - £450
Play & educational materials - £500
“Everybody’s
doin’ it” – Teenage pregnancy
and sexually transmitted diseases
“Everybody’s doin it” is a 40 minute, character
led tragic-comic play that explores the peer pressure concerning
first time sex. It
covers the myths, superstitions
and the serious consequences of misinformed actions. A question and
answer session follows.
“A fantastic play. Really hard hitting but funny as well,
got the point across. I think many of our young people will
think again about their options after watching.”
P Walters – Harmonize Project, The Lighthouse
Price: £400
Play & educational resources: £450
“Just ‘av one” – Substance & Alcohol
misuse
“Just ‘av one” is a 50 minute character led tragic
comedy that depicts the serious and life threatening consequences
of making the wrong choices,
when the right ones are within
your grasp. The
play covers all
aspects of substance and alcohol misuse and includes a whole host
of facts and figures. A question
and
answer session
follows.
“Absolutely brilliant. We were having
a real problem with our young people, but this seems to have made
them realise
what they are doing. Put it in black and
white for them. It has made them turn the
corner.”
Maria Suku, Youth Worker, Shrewsbury
House, Liverpool
Price: £400
Play & educational resources: £450
To book a play for your school please
email Clare Molyneux at OpenthedoorTIE@hotmail.co.uk
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