This journal is for KS3 though due to the open ended nature, can be appropiate for KS4 and 5. Suitable for remote learning. Through the 12 Chapters, young people will be given the space to observe, reflect and respond to big topics and themes central to our current world to promote positive mental health and wellbeing. This is a space to stretch your imagination and be creative. The Chapters can be completed in order or hand-picked for the context of your class. Students will follow the same explorative structure to create reflective work for each Chapter. See how to guide to learn more. This chapter explore the theme of hope, looking at other artists interpretations to the theme as a starting point to devising a creative response.

This journal is for KS3 though due to the open ended nature, can be appropiate for KS4 and 5. Suitable for remote learning. Through the 12 Chapters, young people will be given the space to observe, reflect and respond to big topics and themes central to our current world to promote positive mental health and wellbeing. This is a space to stretch your imagination and be creative. The Chapters can be completed in order or hand-picked for the context of your class. Students will follow the same explorative structure to create reflective work for each Chapter. See how to guide to learn more. This chapter explore the theme of hope, looking at other artists interpretations to the theme as a starting point to devising a creative response.

This journal is for KS3 though due to the open ended nature, can be appropiate for KS4 and 5. Suitable for remote learning. Through the 12 Chapters, young people will be given the space to observe, reflect and respond to big topics and themes central to our current world to promote positive mental health and wellbeing. This is a space to stretch your imagination and be creative. The Chapters can be completed in order or hand-picked for the context of your class. Students will follow the same explorative structure to create reflective work for each Chapter. See how to guide to learn more. This chapter explore the theme of hope, looking at other artists interpretations to the theme as a starting point to devising a creative response.

Guided online sessions and writing exercises that explore the fundamentals of developing characters; finding a voice and turning ideas into stories; and the power of metaphor. Suitable for Drama and English lessons. This is a pre-recorded video lesson and contains some student responses. Simply press play on the video to be guided through the tasks. This course is intended for young people aged between 11 – 16 years old. All sessions contain a 40 minute guided video lesson, supporting activity sheets and are led by professional writers. Suitable for Open, Closed or Partially Closed Schools. These resources were created as a response to the challenges schools are facing during the Covid 19 outbreak. They were filmed during the first lockdown in 2020. They are fully subsidised by Theatre Centre who are a registered non profit charity. Lesson 6 - Chinonyerem Odimba, How To Write a Great Opening Scene.

Guided online sessions and writing exercises that explore the fundamentals of developing characters; finding a voice and turning ideas into stories; and the power of metaphor. Suitable for Drama and English lessons. This is a pre-recorded video lesson and contains some student responses. Simply press play on the video to be guided through the tasks. This course is intended for young people aged between 11 – 16 years old. All sessions contain a 40 minute guided video lesson, supporting activity sheets and are led by professional writers. Suitable for Open, Closed or Partially Closed Schools. These resources were created as a response to the challenges schools are facing during the Covid 19 outbreak. They were filmed during the first lockdown in 2020. They are fully subsidised by Theatre Centre who are a registered non profit charity. Lesson 7 - Leo Skilbeck. Devising On The Page.

Guided online sessions and writing exercises that explore the fundamentals of developing characters; finding a voice and turning ideas into stories; and the power of metaphor. Suitable for Drama and English lessons. This is a pre-recorded video lesson. Simply press play on the video to be guided through the tasks. This course is intended for young people aged between 11 – 16 years old. All sessions contain a 40 minute guided video lesson, supporting activity sheets and are led by professional writers. Suitable for Open, Closed or Partially Closed Schools. These resources were created as a response to the challenges schools are facing during the Covid 19 outbreak. Lesson 1 - Frazer Flintham. Exploring the relationship between character and story.

Guided online sessions and writing exercises that explore the fundamentals of developing characters; finding a voice and turning ideas into stories; and the power of metaphor. Suitable for Drama and English lessons. This is a pre-recorded video lesson. Simply press play on the video to be guided through the tasks. This course is intended for young people aged between 11 – 16 years old. All sessions contain a 40 minute guided video lesson, supporting activity sheets and are led by professional writers. Suitable for Open, Closed or Partially Closed Schools. These resources were created as a response to the challenges schools are facing during the Covid 19 outbreak. Lesson 3 -Matilda Ibini & Natasha Sutton Williams. Turning Your Ideas into Stories.

Learning outcomes These resources are designed to continue to embed ideas and dramatic techniques explored in The Muddy Choir into the student‟s learning and assist them in applying these ideas to their own work. Extracts of the play included with the lesson plans and individual or class sets of the full text can be purchased directly from the Theatre Centre website. The Play Nominated for Best New Play for Young Audiences, Muddy Choir (Age 13+) by Jesse Britton, tells the story of three soldiers serving with the Durham Light Infantry. Including traditional wartime songs, the play is about childhood friends growing up in unbearable circumstances and the humanising power of music. Summary of Lessons Students will have the opportunity to develop their skills in numerous areas within the Drama curriculum. The plans focus on developing skills in improvisation, character development, the use of song within narrative development, strategies for devising, character status and children’s learning across a variety of areas including literacy. These session plans may be adapted or combined to suit the needs of your pupils.

This resource is a script: UP IN YOUR HEAD BY JON BRITTAIN All the things you have thought of while in lockdown and more. Note from the author: This play can be performed by any number of actors (or indeed, just by one.) Distribute the lines however feels best. And feel free to cut lines or change references that don’t feel right for you. In fact to be honest, do what you like. Just keep it snappy. *One thing to note is the line “What does 30,000 people even look like?” This was written when that was the overall covid death toll - so that can either be kept as was or updated to reflect the current death toll. 19 of the UK’s most exciting writers have written a collection of stories for the nation to perform and record. In August 2020, we ran a Festival to celebrate ImagiNation and screened 19 films made up of submissions from people all over the UK. You can see the films on our YouTube channel. The Imagination plays are the perfect provision to use in your school with a Drama or English class, or as something for your Drama Club to do at home via zoom while you can’t meet in person as a great way to feel connected. Get your students to record whole stories or just a line or paragraph from one of the plays. It’s up to you.  You don’t need any acting experience at all. We just want you to enjoy telling a story. ImagiNation is supported by a series of ‘How to…’ videos to give you some tips from top professionals on directing, acting, voice and filming.

This journal is for KS3 though due to the open ended nature, can be appropiate for KS4 and 5. Suitable for remote learning. Through the 12 Chapters, young people will be given the space to observe, reflect and respond to big topics and themes central to our current world to promote positive mental health and wellbeing. This is a space to stretch your imagination and be creative. The Chapters can be completed in order or hand-picked for the context of your class. Students will follow the same explorative structure to create reflective work for each Chapter. See how to guide to learn more. This chapter explore the theme of hope, looking at other artists interpretations to the theme as a starting point to devising a creative response.

Guided online sessions and writing exercises that explore the fundamentals of developing characters; finding a voice and turning ideas into stories; and the power of metaphor. Suitable for Drama and English lessons. This is a pre-recorded video lesson. Simply press play on the video to be guided through the tasks. This course is intended for young people aged between 11 – 16 years old. All sessions contain a 40 minute guided video lesson, supporting activity sheets and are led by professional writers. Suitable for Open, Closed or Partially Closed Schools. The writing course resources were created as a response to the challenges schools are facing during the Covid 19 outbreak and are recordings of a live video lesson involving secondary students during the first lockdown of 2020. They were created by Theatre Centre, a non profit registered charity. We were able to fully subsidise the project and offer these lessons at no cost to schools. Lesson 5 - Keith Jarrett. Writing Poetry.

Guided online sessions and writing exercises that explore the fundamentals of developing characters; finding a voice and turning ideas into stories; and the power of metaphor. Suitable for Drama and English lessons. This is a pre-recorded video lesson. Simply press play on the video to be guided through the tasks. This course is intended for young people aged between 11 – 16 years old. All sessions contain a 40 minute guided video lesson, supporting activity sheets and are led by professional writers. Suitable for Open, Closed or Partially Closed Schools. These resources were created as a response to the challenges schools are facing during the Covid 19 outbreak and therefore are fully subsidised by Theatre Centre who are a registered non profit charity. Lesson 4 - Charlie Josephine. Writing For Performance.

Guided online sessions and writing exercises that explore the fundamentals of developing characters; finding a voice and turning ideas into stories; and the power of metaphor. Suitable for Drama and English lessons. This is a pre-recorded video lesson. Simply press play on the video to be guided through the tasks. This course is intended for young people aged between 11 – 16 years old. All sessions contain a 40 minute guided video lesson, supporting activity sheets and are led by professional writers. Suitable for Open, Closed or Partially Closed Schools. These resources were created as a response to the challenges schools are facing during the Covid 19 outbreak. Lesson 2 - Nessah Muthy. Developing Characters and their Stories.

This resource is a script: SKY BY ALEX CRITOPH. Mother Nature is holed up in a cottage listening to Lizzo; and she needs to get something off her chest. 19 of the UK’s most exciting writers have written a collection of stories for the nation to perform and record. In August 2020, we ran a Festival to celebrate ImagiNation and screened 19 films made up of submissions from people all over the UK. You can see the films on our YouTube channel. The Imagination plays are the perfect provision to use in your school with a Drama or English class, or as something for your Drama Club to do at home via zoom while you can’t meet in person as a great way to feel connected. Get your students to record whole stories or just a line or paragraph from one of the plays. It’s up to you.  You don’t need any acting experience at all. We just want you to enjoy telling a story. ImagiNation is supported by a series of ‘How to…’ videos to give you some tips from top professionals on directing, acting, voice and filming.

Liven up evaluative discussion around performance work with these performance and self evaluation dice. There are 3 templates included here for you to cut out and stick together to make three separate sentence starter dice. Students roll the dice and complete the sentence that the dice lands on. This resource offers lots of flexibility for use. They can be used individually in class to encourage more varied verbal responses or as sentence starters for written work. These could also be passed around during class discussion to kick start conversations around themes and techniques after watching performance work. Blank template also provided to write sentence starters more specific to the piece being studied or to further develop thinking. Students can use the blank template to create their own evaluation dice and challenge a classmate to complete their sentence starters. Differentiate your evaluative and reflective moments of the lesson with freedom of choice, by asking students to roll two or more dice and allowing them to select which sentence to complete. Sentences focus on a range of performance, technical and group work skills. Eg: Theme/context - • The performance left me wondering about… Acting skills - • An example of where an actor used voice to show their character’s feelings was… Self evaluation - • If I could perform the piece again, I could improve it by….

This 60 minute lesson plan with supporting PowerPoint is focused on how to structure an engaging review. Includes an example from an award winning critic on how to build a strong opening to a written response. The lesson then guides students through a clear structure, using each key element as a building block to anaylse and evaluate a live performance effectively. Learning Objectives To learn how to structure an engaging review To develop essential skills in critical thinking.

A practical lesson in characterisation thorugh movement. Can be used with any play text or performance. Detailed lesson plan and supporting PowerPoint. This lesson will build skills for both written responses and practical exploration of characters. This 60 minute lesson is for use following reading a play or watching a live performance. Objectives: • To be able to alter my movement on stage to reveal qualities of a character • To evaluate an actor’s use of movement on stage The lesson explores physicality by learning about how an actor can use centre or energy. Students then create their own role on the wall by considering internal and external qualities of a chosen character. Their understanding is further embedded by use of hotseating.

A lesson plan on bravery which explores resilience and asks students to consider what being brave is and how our ‘inner voice’ can impact on how we feel about ourselves. Learning Objective: To understand the struggle between fear and bravery. To be able to present this dramatically through characterisation. The lesson is based around a short radio play, Perfect Pressure, which is available in our store. However, although the lesson refers to a character from the play, it can be taught easily without students being required to listen to the play as the context is explained using a third person scenario.

Scheme of work is designed to spark conversation and develop understanding around Mental Health; focus is stress, anxiety and panic attacks. The unit explores the story, Ella, introduced by listening to a short radio play during lessons, Ella is 16 years old and is facing a myriad of pressures. The lessons unpack Ella’s thought processes and encourage students to think of ways to help Ella. Strategies for managing a panic attacks are addressed and also how to seek out support networks. As a Theatre Company for young people, we specialise in using realistic third-person scenarios to open up safe discussions about difficult subjects. Each ‘Switched On’ scheme of work is centered around a professional radio play. Perfect Pressure is by award winning writer, activitst and performer Sarah Woods. Sarah’s work has been produced by many UK companies including Theatre Centre, Soho Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, the RSC, BBC TV and radio, regional theatres and touring companies. A number of her plays are published by Oberon Books. Switched On is everything you need to teach varied and engaging PSHE lessons at KS3 and KS4 with minimal prep. Also suitable for Drama departments and the clear guidance makes it very approriate for cover lessons. Mental Health - Perfect Pressure. Students will be learning: Wellbeing strand The characteristics of emotional and mental health and the causes, symptoms and treatments of some mental and emotional health disorders (including stress, anxiety and depression) Strategies for managing mental health including stress, anxiety and depression; a broader range of strategies for promoting their own emotional wellbeing

**Included: ** Radio Play Student Workbook Lesson plans PowerPoint This fresh and modern radio play, Tick by Kenny Emson, is designed to spark conversation and develop understanding around Financial Literacy; focusing specifically on debt, loans and money management. The protagonist, Ben, is 18 years old and finds himself in financial difficulty after trying to keep up with his friends. This unit of work begins by listening to the radio play and the lessons that follow build an environment to discuss sensitive subjects in a safe way by unpacking and making sense of the world the characters live in. Lessons focus on the financial pressures facing Ben, how he could have considered better choices and how he might work to overcome his debt. As a Theatre Company for young people, we specialise in using realistic third-person scenarios to open up safe discussions about difficult subjects. Engaging PSHE lessons for KS3 Students will be learning: Living in the wider world strand To assess and manage risk in relation to financial decisions that young people make To explore social and moral dilemmas about the use of money, (including how the choices young people make as consumers affect others’ economies and environments)