Video resources: Primary Drama Workshop
Primary Drama Workshop is a series of three CPD films and resources offering guidance to non-specialist teachers on using simple drama strategies with their pupils.
Primary Drama Workshop
Three CPD films and resources for non-specialist teachers, offering guidance on using curriculum-focused drama activities to the classroom.
The films show teachers and their classes working their way through three drama frameworks that are included on the site. The first focuses on traditional stories; the second on Victorian childhood; the third on Ancient Egypt, and the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in particular. The accompanying resources and Teacher Notes provide a comprehensive toolkit for teachers that will enable them to apply the drama strategies demonstrated to topics of their own choice from across the curriculum.
Audio resources: Primary Drama for KS1 and KS2
Off-the-shelf drama sessions for KS1 and KS2 pupils that are ideal for non-specialist teachers鈥nd fun for everyone.
Drama sessions for KS1 children exploring well-known traditional stories.
Off-the-shelf drama sessions for KS2 pupils exploring a wide range of topics.
These resources for primary drama offer interactive learning opportunities which foster pupils' confidence in speaking and listening while also extending their study across a range of curriculum objectives.
Each series provides carefully structured language, movement and role-play activities, encouraging imaginative, co-operative work. The aim is to provide a rich stimulus to that fully supports the non-specialist teacher while providing a framework that more confident drama teachers can adapt to their own purposes.
In each of the audio resources you will hear short dramatic scenes linked by a narrator. The narrator also serves to set up the drama activities to be undertaken by pupils, offering clear instructions on grouping, spacing and so forth.
Some of these activities will take place 'in real time' - ie pupils will move in time to a sequence of music or sound effects. Some of the activities are undertaken while the playback is paused and where this is the case you will hear a signal (usually a short musical chord or sound effect) indicating that it is time to pause playback for the activity.
The Teacher Notes for each unit offer a content grid indicating the activities within the drama session and guidance to the leader of the session on how best to use the content and how to assess pupils' responses to it.
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