I’m slowly sliding from 7 months pregnant to 8 months pregnant. It’s a wonderful journey and I’m very lucky to have got through with no morning sickness, tiredness, pains or aches (touch wood). Not long to go now but I’m still ticking along quite well 🙂 I thought I’d share with you some of the […]
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Welcome Back to Term 3- Hutt Valley Performing Arts Competition Update
A huge ‘Well done!’ to all of the Drama Club pupils who participated in the Hutt Valley Performing Arts Competition on 17th & 18th July 2016. Our students were chosen to compete in the Hutt Valley Performing Arts Competition based on their marks in the 2015 Trinity College examinations. The categories that our students competed […]
Graduated LTCL
More exciting news!! I have graduated with my LTCL (Licentiate) in teaching speech and drama. It feels like a huge weight off my shoulders after three long years of study and teaching. I look forward to supporting anyone to is currently completing their LTCL.
Jonothan Neelands = Genius
Last week I finished reading and recording notes from Jonothan Neelands book Structuring Drama Work – A handbook of available forms in theatre and drama. One word – GENIUS! In this book Jonothan gives us a guide to dramatic conventions – the conventions chosen emphasise theatre’s traditional role as an educative form. Jonothan breaks the […]
Teaching Shakespeare
Another article I have read recently that really got my attention is Teaching Shakespeare as Drama by Ken Watson. (Thanks Ken!) This article made me so excited about teaching Shakespeare that I emailed all the schools in my area and asked whether any of them were doing Shakespeare – lucky for me one of them […]