Specialist drama lessons and sharing of resources

Our head of drama has been spending an afternoon every week teaching Year 5 at Nash Mills School. This will allow the pupils specialist teaching and further collaboration with pupils at Abbot’s Hill.

AHS has a long history of sharing their drama costumes with local schools.  The Lion King was staged involving pupils in Year 4, 5 and 6.  A member of AHS staff who made costumes for over 200 pupils was approached by an colleague from Eastfield asking if they could borrow the costumes. 

The residents of Gilbert House to attend their production of the Lion King.  This was followed by coffee and tea in the Drawing Room where some of the cast chatted to our visitors.  This was a lovely afternoon with many of our guest reminiscing about how they knew the school in the past.  The girls benefited from having feedback from their first audience.

Aims

·        To provide specialist teaching.

·        To promote the sharing of resources.

·        To promote collaboration between staff and pupils at both schools.

Background

Come and Sing was a day of song, dance and drama that involved 90 pupils in November.  This promoted further collaboration between Abbot’s Hill School and Nash Mills, resulting in a specialist drama teacher going over once a week.

Resources

Teachers' time and resources included props, scripts and music. For the supply of costumes, we made 200 in total.

Impact

Year 5 pupils are given the opportunity to participate in drama lessons leading to a performance.  The activities introduce them to skills including, dancing, singing, acting, working in a group, perseverance, empathy towards others to name but a few.  The children will also be visiting AHS for a further day of workshops.  

Pupil Involvement

30 Year 5 pupils.

Frequency

once a week for the academic year 2017-18