These questions have been developed using the highly-regarded Bloom’s Taxonomy, providing a framework and questions that stimulate higher-order thinking skills in their students for Technical Theatre Topics (Lighting, Sound, AV & Stage Management) Perfect for stretching those Gifted and Talented groups!

These questioning prompts and tracker is based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, providing teachers with frameworks and prompts to create questions that stimulate higher-order thinking skills in their students. Perfect for stretching students knowledge and understanding of topics. This template can be used for a variety of different subjects and topics

Student can sometimes find it difficult to start a sentence to express their ideas, or find words to show the relationship between ideas. Use this sentence starter resource to list some possible sentence starters or transitional and other words that may be useful. This resource can be printed into and laminated into bookmark style resource for students to keep hold of when reading/writing.

There are 16 WRYSE competencies – or sets of knowledge, skills and experience. They are based on the National Occupational Standards for the creative industries, and are developed with industry professionals that breaks down the technical and transferable skills and knowledge required to work within the stage & screen sector. The WRYSE competencies include: Transferable competencies Communication Diversity, equity and inclusion Mental health awareness Team working Planning Management and leadership Problem solving Negotiating Industry awareness competencies Networking Set etiquette Roles and departments Working as a freelancer Technical competencies Managing costs Research and analytical Contracts and permissions Health and safety Use this WRYSE Skills Self Reflection with students to get an understanding of how they would RAG Rate their on skill set which helps them to check their progress and improve their overall understanding.

Teach your students an introduction into Live sound train them on the basic use of the Allen & Heath SQ7 Sound Desk. This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students the importance of accounts and the role taxes play when in employment (employed & self employed), what is the purpose of an invoice is and how to complete one and how to successfully complete a tax return by knowing what to claim as expenditure. This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students about the different types of scene breakdowns and how to successfully create a scene breakdown for a production and how to use excel to develop skills. This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students an introduction into QLab and how to use the features of QLab successfully within a production. **This lesson used top songs from the charts taken from 2023. You will need to update the slides and provide your own songs for the task. This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students an introduction into stage lighting and train them on the basic use of the ETC ION Lighting Desk. They can also practice their programming skills in real time as they listen to award-winning Lighting Designer Ken Billington direct his lighting team for the production of New York City Center Encores’ Me and My Girl. (Association of Lighting Designers) This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students the importance and how to successfully fit radio mics for a theatre production, how to set up, run and operate radio mics and the skills needed to work within the sound department (Sound No.2) This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students the importance of interrelations (within theatre production design) and how to successfully work together with the Lighting Designer, Make Up Designer and Costume Designer to understand how colour theory for costume (fabric) and make up is affected under stage lights This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students the importance and purpose of note taking, how to successfully take notes and what is the benefit of taking good notes when in lessons and seminars. This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students the importance and how to network when entering the world of work and how to gain contacts for employment. This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

This Self Reflection task is perfect for any lesson or topic. It helps students to rate their understanding on a topic before the lesson and after the lesson and also allows for teachers feedback. Afterwards students have space to write their own reflective account on their learning. Allowing self-reflection helps understand how students think about their own learning. This gives you an insights into their learning processes, strategies, motivations, and goals. It also helps identify any misconceptions in their knowledge, so that you can adjust your teaching accordingly. Self Reflection also encourages students to develop a growth mindset, and foster a culture of continuous learning and improvement. **Created in Black and White so that it can be printed on coloured paper.

Start the school year off on the right foot by getting to know your students with this Student Questionnaire! This questionnaire helps you learn about your students’ interests, their families, and what they need in order to be successful in your classroom. By taking the time to get to know your students helps when it comes to building relationships with your students. You can utilise this knowledge and implement them into conversations and your teaching. Building relationships with students links to the teaching standards. **Created in Black and White so that I can be printed on coloured paper.

Did you enjoy the TV series The Traitors? Why not play the game in classroom? This is a great resource that is felxible and can be used for any topic or lesson. It also allows you to gauge student’s understanding of a topic or question (assessment), sparking intense debate, pushes them to dig deeper into their answers and critical analysis and discussions. The class are divided into groups, each player picks a card (Faithful or Traitor) meaning there is secret traitor(s) within each group. You can then pose a question to the class and the traitors role is to subtly mislead their group by providing incorrect answers. This resource has been cleverly designed and includes the rules themed presentation (to input your own questions) and traitor / faithful cards. (Cut the cards and fold in half- glue or laminate to hold together)

Sound Early Finisher Activities . Use this collection of easy, yet purposeful early finisher activities to deal with early finishers in the classroom. Over 20 sound design tasks to help to develop students’ knowledge and understanding, challenge students. They can even be used for revision and independent study.

Lighting Early Finisher Activities . Use this collection of easy, yet purposeful early finisher activities to deal with early finishers in the classroom. Over 20 lighting design tasks to help to develop students’ knowledge and understanding, challenge students. They can even be used for revision and independent study.

Mala Llama - the home of wellbeing & calming health. Myself and my 2 friends/ teaching colleagues set up Mala Llama (after the Covid pandemic) to help to provide educational resources combined with coping strategies & meditation tips for early intervention. Calming Cards support wellbeing and positive health providing coping strategies and meditation tips. Each card is linked to a key element that enables you to realise your abilities to help deal with some of the mind’s greatest obstacles. The 30 cards in a pack can be used one-a-day or you may select a small selection to work with each day. Each affirmation on the front of the card is to be read out loud followed by the coping strategies and meditation tips on the reverse. When the user has put these into practice they may return to the original affirmation. Unfortunately the physical cards are no longer available to purchase however you can purchase this download. Feel free to download my FREE digital sample of our Calming Cards to get a preview of our cards first.

In technical theatre we use a lot of specialist language. It will be important that we can all communicate clearly using the right language. This dictionary is a beginners’ list of terminology and helps students to understand key terms and be able to refer to when they need help spelling key terminology or what a word means - helping them to write independently. These are great to print for individually for students, support and scaffold for SEND students or to have a group/table resources to refer to. Included: -General Theatre Terms -Types of Stages & Stage Directions -Production Process -Technical Theatre Cables -Hierarchy & Job Roles -Unions and Associations -BTEC Glossary - support with assignment briefs.