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Our World Our Future Drama Workshop

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Hayley was absolutely fantastic, a lovely person and provided a very engaging session for the children. However, we as teachers felt that the workshop could be improved with props, costumes and music. The content provided could have been delivered by a teacher and therefore we felt that, for the money paid, there should be some added extras that schools could not provide. We would have loved there to be more acting from the facilitator to really engage children into the world of the Romans.”

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(History Explorer Drama Workshop) - Posted 5 months ago

“Morning Sessions great. We were looking at timings and the provider suggested putting two classes together in the afternoon due to having a large space available. In hindsight the children probably didn't get as much out of the sessions as they would have by keeping them seperate and it was trickier to deliver. It would be more benefical to keep to the origional plan if we were to do this again.”

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(History Explorer Drama Workshop) - Posted 7 months ago

“Cara was really lovely, very good with the kids and knowledgeable about the olympics. I think there was too much crammed into an hour. There was a lot of choreography for the children to learn and not enough time to learn it in.”

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(Olympics Dance Workshop) - Posted 1 year ago

“Not such a great session this year, perhaps the text was too complicated. There was a lot of talking and a lot for the children to try to remember and not much active participation.”

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(Shakespeare Explorer Workshop) - Posted 1 year ago

“We enjoyed the workshop but felt that it didn't bring any enrichment or resources that school do not already have.”

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(Story Explorer Drama Workshop) - Posted 1 year ago

“The sessions were well organised and well led by the member of staff. However we felt that they could have included more strategies to help deal with bullying and given the children more advice.”

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(Anti-Bullying Drama Workshop) - Posted 1 year ago

“The children had a wonderful time during their sessions on the Stone Age and the Greeks. Keira was very professional and created a wonderful rapport with the children. The only thing the teachers thought may be an improvement was if the member of staff dressed up to match the specific era and if they could have brought some resources for the children to use e.g spears, stone tools, dressing up clothes etc.”

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(History Explorer Drama Workshop) - Posted 1 year ago

“We thought the instructor was great, but didn't really feel the content was as thought-provoking as it could have been or that it covered new areas that we haven't already discussed at school. When she asked at the end, 'What have you learned today?', the children found it hard to come up with ideas. Some children definitely enjoyed the drama aspect. The freeze frames all brought about similar responses.”

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(Anti-Bullying Drama Workshop) - Posted 1 year ago

“The information given was very topical and relevant for the children! It would have been great to make the workshop more interactive with more drama activities/ opportunities/ games for the children.”

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(Our World Our Future Drama Workshop) - Posted 2 years ago

“It was a lovely activity to part take in, however the behaviour management needed to be better. The children were getting a little bored and their behaviour started to slip. This meant the session wasn't as benefical for the children as I'm sure was intended.”

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(Bringing Books To Life Dance Workshop) - Posted 2 years ago

“The children enjoyed the dance and the leader was lovely with the children. The dance for Y2 was quite rushed, having sat then warmed up for 20 minutes out of the 35 minute session. For the price of each session, we felt that there should at least have been some props.”

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(Chinese Zodiac Dance Workshop) - Posted 2 years ago

“The children enjoyed their workshop - thank you. The facilitator was really enthusiastic and child friendly!! For younger children (Year 3 in our case) some photographs of the soldiers / posters would have been helpful as they were not familiar with all the language and these visual clues would have helped with their own ideas too.”

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(Poetry And Poppies Drama Workshop) - Posted 2 years ago

“Our dance teacher was very knowledgeable in terms of the story being shared with the children and had a calm and patient manner when delivering the workshop. For our very young Reception children there was a lot of sitting and listening at first which they found quite difficult, so perhaps a more active approach throughout the session would have helped to retain their concentration. All children however enjoyed the activity and followed the instructions to move in the manner modelled for each character from the story.”

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(Diwali Dance Workshop) - Posted 2 years ago

“The actor who came was lovely with the children and they joined in really well. It was good to see them participating in drama activities, and showing off their knowledge of the topic, but was not quite what we had anticipated in terms of content. Key Stage 1 children don't need to do timelines, and quite a lot of the session was spent looking at Florence Nightingale's position in history. We had thought that perhaps there would be role play from 'Florence Nightingale', perhaps with artefacts, in appropriate costume. But the children enjoyed the workshop, and it made a change from sitting in their seats. It gave the teaching staff food for thought in how they might incorporate drama in future history work.”

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(History Explorer Drama Workshop) - Posted 2 years ago

“We had the Climate Change workshop, which was interesting, the children enjoyed the different freeze frames, however, we found that there were no resources, no props for the children to look at or use, it was mainly freeze frames and discussions, which we did not feel justified the price of the workshop and probably won't use again.”

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(Our World Our Future Drama Workshop) - Posted 3 years ago

“The content of the workshop was good, but the delivery was not quite what we would have expected. Although the activities the children did helped them in their learning, we had hoped that they would have been more actively drawn into the sessions. More time spent building up a rapport at the start of the session would have helped with this.”

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(Our World Our Future Drama Workshop) - Posted 3 years ago

“The children really enjoyed the active elements of these workshops. The workshop leader was enthusiastic and got the children excited to take part. Being based on the theme of Climate Change, the activities did assume the children would have prior knowledge which was fine for Year 5 who were studying Climate Change in Science lessons, but was a bit too complex for the younger Year 2s to understand fully. It would be useful for teachers to know what prior knowledge is needed before the session.”

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(Our World Our Future Drama Workshop) - Posted 3 years ago

“We did a retelling of Stick Man in KS1 - although the workshop was fun, it didn't utilise any skills that we wouldn't use in an ordinary English lesson. There were no props or costumes to make the workshop feel special. It seems like a lot of money for something that we'd do in an ordinary KS1 lesson anyway.”

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(Story Explorer Drama Workshop) - Posted 3 years ago

“Pupil feedback: - We thought it was really fun especially when we played the silly warm up game. - I liked the whole thing, I fell down because I was laughing so much. - I liked learning about acting and the stage directions. - I liked the gymnastic routine Staff feedback: - All children got involved and were very active! - The instructor had the attention of the children, kept them engaged, and they really enjoyed it. - Some standards being set for the noise level would be helpful as it ended up becoming a bit of a 'who can scream the loudest' situation, which caused some undue stress on children who are more sensitive to excessive noise/disturbance. - It wasn't particularly an "Olympic" experience and the session I saw could have been delivered by their PE teacher. There was no exposure to Japanese culture/ dance. - It was more of a drama workshop rather than the dance one advertised.”

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(Olympics Dance Workshop) - Posted 4 years ago

“The children enjoyed the session and it was a good introduction to our new 'Enchanted Woodland' topic. Lucy was very engaging and enthusiastic. We feel that the session would benefit from props/costumes to make it totally different from a normal drama lesson that we might carry out already at school.”

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(Drama Workshops) - Posted 4 years ago

West End in Schools is rated 4.8 based on 1,629 reviews