• Our drama workshops consolidate and integrate classroom studies into the “Victorian Essential Learning Standards” drama and dance disciplines.
• During the workshops children use dramatic techniques to create, explore and develop their ideas from classroom studies.
• A qualified and skilled drama specialist facilitates the workshops at your school using a variety of costumes and other props.
• A distinctive feature of our workshops is the wide range of music styles used including classical, rock, big band and synthesizer music.
• Each child gets the opportunity to dress-up twice in a session.
• Workshops cater for up to 30 children per session and run for 1 hour at your school.

The Body Investigators

    

In this new and fun drama workshop children become Full Body Investigators (F.B.I agents). They are shrunk down to investigate an unhealthy body system using costumes, drama and movement. Students then explore what is required for a healthy body system and look at the simple connection between the different systems.

   

Students discuss and wear costumes representing the brain, lungs, heart and intestines.

Suitable for prep to year 6 children.

Fairytale Fiasco!

  

Children explore the imaginative and creative world of fairytales in this fun drama workshop. During the workshop children enter into Fairytale Land where things are not what they seem! A terrible spell has been cast on Fairytale Land where mice roar and dragons flee, wolves snort and pigs huff and puff! Children fully engage in this delightful workshop using drama, movement, costumes and props. Every child gets a costume and becomes a Fairytale Land character. Equally engaging for girls and boys. Ideal for developing creative writing in the Fairytales and Fables unit.

  

Costumes include dwarves, witches/wizards, dragons, mice, cats, wolves and pigs.

Suitable for prep to year 4 children.

Terra Australia Oi Oi Oi

The Formation Of Our National Identity

This new drama workshop takes children on a journey of key events between the landing of the First Fleet to the formation of Federation (1787-1901).

It touches on the hardship of the goldfields and the Eureka Stockade, the tenacity of early explorers and bushrangers and will highlight the struggles in forming a national identity.

A wide variety of dramatic techniques are used such as slow motion, mime, dialogue and improvisation. This is a fast paced drama using lots of props and costumes to give children a good overview of this period.

Costumes provided include miners, miner’s wives, explorers, camels, police and the kelly gang

It is ideal for students who have some knowledge of this period.

Suitable for year 3 to 6 children.

Under the Sea

  

The “Under The Sea” workshop allows children to immerse themselves into creating, making and presenting an undersea cavern filled with jiggling jellyfish, darting rainbow fish, dolphins, swaying seaweeds and opulent octopuses. This drama workshop culminates in a story about polluting the oceans with rubbish.

  

Costumes provided include octopuses, rainbow fish, dolphins, seaweeds, divers and jellyfish.

Suitable for prep to year 4 children.

Minibeasts

  

Children discover the delights of wriggling like a worm, crawling like a slater and marching like an ant. We use the elements of sun, water and soil to discuss camouflage and predators. Beautiful costumes and delightful music help children explore the environment around them.

Costumes provided include butterflies, dragonflies, ladybirds, slaters, spiders, grasshoppers, worms and caterpillars.

Suitable for prep to year 2 children.

Minibeasts in Maggie’s Garden

   

This advanced version of our Minibeasts drama workshop explores the interaction of minibeasts within an organic garden. Children use dramatic techniques to explore issues of ecology, predators, camouflage and pesticides in Maggie’s Garden. The drama teacher adopts a role as a pesticide loving human that poses problems that the minibeasts must solve using drama and movement.

Costumes provided are the same as the Minibeasts workshop above.

Suitable for year 2 to 4 children.

Journey Into Space

This exciting space adventure starts on planet earth where children discuss and discover the solar system. Imagination, drama and a 30ft rocketship launch the children into space and travel the galaxy. During their travels, children visit two distinctly different planets. Space-age music and costumes allow children to re-create these planet environments and compare them. Our fabulous 30ft rocket ship then propels the group back to earth.

Costumes provided include astronauts, stars & moons, lightening, sulphuric gasses, ice & crystal and dark storm.

Suitable for prep to year 2 children.

What Planet Are You On?

Children go on a mission from NASA to discover and recreate planet environments using dramatic techniques such as slow motion, freeze frames, mime and improvisation. Every child participates in this totally interactive workshop.

Costumes provided are the same as the Journey Into Space workshop above.

Suitable for years 3 to 6 children.

Tiddalick The Frog

“Tiddalick The Frog” drama workshop creates an outback adventure for children to explore a well known dreamtime story. A skilled facilitator creates the outback setting using Australian music and storytelling. Children fully participate to re-enact the story of “Tiddalick The Frog” using unique Australian animal costumes that enable children to express themselves and engage in drama and movement.

Costumes provided include emus, kangaroos, frilled neck lizards, wombats, koalas and kookaburras.

Suitable for prep to year 4 children.

Jungle Animals

Children explore the Amazon jungle environment using movement to music and drama. The workshop culminates in a hunt for jungle treasures where animals discover the joy of sharing with each other in their environment.

Costumes provided include scarlet macaws, tarantula spiders, iguanas, jaguars and howler monkeys.

Suitable for prep to year 2 children.

Jungle Habitat Under Threat

This advanced version of our jungle animals drama workshop is aimed at older children, years 2 to 4. Children explore the jungle environment using costumes, movement and drama when confronted by a logger (drama teacher) who poses a threat to their environment. Children use dramatic techniques to justify why their environment is important for their existence.

Costumes provided are the same as the Jungle Animals workshop as above.

Suitable for years 2 to 4 children.

Circus

  

Children love the circus with the Big Top, clowns, lions and elephants. The thrill and excitement of actually being in the circus will provide a sense of magic for children participating in this drama workshop. No longer will they be in the audience, instead they will have a chance to leap daringly like a trapeze artist, roar like a lion, cavort like a clown and sway like an elephant!

 

Costumes provided include prancing ponies, lions, tigers, elephants, clowns and trapeze artists.

Suitable for prep to year 4 children.

Dinosaurs

   

Let our “Dinosaurs” workshop weave a little prehistoric life into your school as children explore shapes, sizes, movement and contrasts. This workshop explores the dinosaur life cycle through nest building, egg hatching, living in a herd and searching for new habitats.

  

Costumes provided include Tyrannosaurus Rex, Pteranadon, Stegosaurus, Brontosaurs and Triceratops.

Suitable for prep to year 2 children.