Drama 9-11: Engaging activities to get your class into drama!

Description

This book provides innovative prompts that can be used to help pupils develop their imagination and creativity through drama. The activities are fun and engaging and will help pupils to develop confidence with listening and speaking as well as performance. This ties in well with the renewed emphasis in the Primary Framework on developing speaking and listening skills. Many of the activities are stand alone and can be used for 'one-off' sessions or as part of a planned drama and/or speaking and listening programme. They are excellent an 'ice-breakers' or for 'getting to know you' sessions for adults and children both in school and during out of school drama clubs.

Molly Potter taught for 11 years in middle schools as a class teacher, science and PSHE co-ordinator. She then worked for several years as an SRE (Sex and Relationships Education) Development Manager, delivering teacher training and supporting primary schools in the development of their SRE programme and policy and many other aspects of PSHE. Molly now works as a teacher in a short-stay school with children that have been or are at risk from being excluded from mainstream schools - putting much of her PSHE expertise into practice. She thoroughly enjoys writing teacher materials and prides herself on being able to spice up any learning objective however boring it might appear at first!