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. 

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