Drama in Education Wimbledon Park Primary School th

Drama in Education Wimbledon Park Primary School th Tuesday 4 March 2014

Why is role play and drama important for every child?

Drama as multi-sensory learning: • Drama in education is visual, auditory, kinaesthetic and tactile

Drama as socialisation: • To keep a ‘pretend’ going, children need to pay attention to each other, listen and watch each other, negotiate and co-operate.

Drama as empathy: ‘To Kill a Mocking Bird’ “You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view. . . Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. ”

Drama as Empowerment • Being in role enables children safely to try out and experience what it might feel like to speak and act as someone else. • It enables them to rehearse real life and what it feels like to be an adult and in control.

Drama to widen vocabulary • By the nature of being in role, children need to select appropriate language to suit that character

Teacher in Role & Mantle of the Expert

Whole Class Drama and Dilemmas • Drama in Education is where the whole class have joined together to create a new setting, a new world, with its own rules, characters and systems. Then there is a dilemma which the children join together to solve.

Drama brings History alive!

How do we learn? We learn: • 10% of what we read • • • 20% of what we see 30% of what we hear 50% of what we see and hear 70% of what we discuss with another 85% of what we experience personally 95% of what we teach William Glasser • Drama in education is made up of what children experience which is why it works as a learning tool and why we use it here at Wimbledon Park

Active Story-telling • We know that whole text approaches to learning inspire the children to speak and to write. • In our pupil survey, asked to list what they enjoyed most about school, many children told of their love of writing and drama around whole texts. • How does it work?

Our Learning Muscles

Shakespeare Project in Year 6

Get involved… Now it’s your turn… Try some Active Storytelling…