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The
Children’s
Time-travel
Festival
Drama, History and Learning
Using the facilities of the Imperial War Museum North
What?
The Children’s Time-travel Festival will be a large-scale inter-school festival which invites your children and your teachers on a journey into the past.
Using the imaginative power of Drama we will explore our chosen theme through the techniques of this powerful learning medium. The work offered will entail rich literacy and cross curricular outcomes.
In our first year, we shall be looking at the second world war and exploring all areas of the KS2 History curriculum in depth; Evacuees, The Home Front, the Blitz, Hitler and the Nazis, Soldiers at war, the war ends….. and more.
The project will culminate in a very special sharing event at the Imperial War Museum North; a spectacular celebration of learning in the main exhibition hall.
Why?
Because learning about history matters; we need to know our past to tell us who we are and to alert us to the possibilities of the future. But how do we learn such things?
Our project will use Drama to tell the stories of history through the lives of real people - lives that your children will have the chance to inhabit and experience through carefully constructed imaginative experience.
Furthermore, through their participation in the project your staff will develop their expertise in the delivery of a compelling drama approach; expertise which they will be able to transfer to other subject areas and to other staff across your schools. Through your participation your school will be developing it’s own in-house drama specialists.
How will the Festival work?
Our Festival will build upon the exciting and highly successful model of inter-school project work that is our current flag-ship project, The Children’s Shakespeare Festivals.
The project will involve the following steps:
- We create a comprehensive scheme of work, using Drama as a starting point but involving a huge range of curriculum opportunities, including rich literacy tasks.
- We deliver the scheme of work to your staff on a 24 hour residential.
- Your staff plan to deliver the scheme of work to their own pupils with our support.
- We visit your school to launch the scheme and establish the drama approach to be taken.
- Your staff deliver the scheme of work in its entirety and expand it to meet their own learning needs
- Each group is tasked with producing a simple dramatic piece to share with the full family of schools based upon their exploration of their own local history
- We meet together at the Imperial War Museum North in a Festival of Learning - children share their work and the Festival is brought to a dynamic close.
When will the Festival take place?
We will be recruiting for the Festival this academic year (before July 2012) and beginning some preliminary work with teachers.
Teachers involved in the Festival will very much be in control of the delivery of the main body of the Festival in their own schools - the fixed points of the festival will be the teacher residential and the final event - between these two points schools can tailor the work to their own situations.
The summary timeline for the festival will be:
- Late September 2012 - staff residential
- Early October our specialist visits to school - a compelling Drama event to launch our scheme
- October - February (to be determined in school) Staff delivery of the scheme with our background support.
- Issue of individual briefs to schools to form the basis of their sharing pieces as part of a half day visits to the Imperial War Museum North. WB April 15th 2013
- Research of local history in WWII
- Festival Sharing event at the Imperial War Museum North, June 25th 2013
A more comprehensive and final time-line will be available in due course to all registered school.
How much will it cost?
We hope to attract a wide range of schools from across the area to our first Time-travel Festival, however, to maintain the quality of our offer we will be limiting the number of class groups involved to just 10.
The cost of a school’s participation in the project will be £1800 for the first class and £600 for an additional class.
We are sometimes able to offer reduced rates for schools in special circumstances (eg, small schools) and for schools engaging in more than one of our projects at the same time.
This project fee will include access to our comprehensive scheme and all resources , two places on the residential, all of our visits to your school, support for implementation of the scheme and the final spectacular and memorable sharing event.
What to do now?
Having look through the details of our festival should you like to register to take part please download a Registration Form here and return it to us at the address supplied on the form. As there are only ten places available we suggest you make contact at the earliest opportunity.
If you’d like to speak to John Doona, our Artistic Director, please call him on 07746 554237 or email him here.
We look forward to hearing from you.
