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NEW FOR 2011 Bracknell Forest Council EARLY YEAR'S STORYTELLING CONFERENCE West Sussex County Council CHILDMINDER'S CONFERENCE 2011 PACSO - Summer Playscheme and "Oh Rats!" Musical Showcase at the Alexandra Theatre 2010 BEDTIME STORY Storytelling session at the Chichester Nursery School and Children's Centre, with children, parents and carers and staff. WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL 2010 EARLY YEAR'S CONFERENCE Four days of regional conference for teachers and early year's practitioners exploring using storytelling skills to extend children's language.
TheatreQuest Finale Unicorn Theatre Princes Foundation for Children and the Arts Andy directed the finale of the project, working with eight schools performing live, two films and two very special royal visitors - President of the Princes Foundation Prince Charles and Patron of the Unicorn Theatre the Duchess of Cornwall. "Just wanted to say a big thank you for last Monday and for all the work you put into coming into our school to work with the kids. The kids absolutely adored the day and I reckon it will stay with them for many years to come. You made them all feel so welcome and so much a part of everything – they have not stopped talking about it since." "Just wanted to say thanks for yesterday and what a brilliant experience it was for our boys. It all went very smoothly and thanks for giving them that extra opportunity at the start." "just dropping a line to say a big thank you for all your hard work and effort in making today a fantastic experience for all our students. It is a day that I know they will look back on and cherish. We arrived back at College at around 8.45pm with many of the students still texting their friends telling them of today's encounters and still singing!!"
The Snow Queen The Stables, Wavendon, Milton Keynes Christmas 2007 " It's a pacy production, switching easily from narrative to action, comedy, to comedy and tense drama .....If you want a big, brash, blousy commercial Christmas panto then head to Milton Keynes Theatre. But if you want something a little more imaginative and subtle then the Snow Queen wins hands down." Leighton Buzzard Advertiser
WEST SUSSEX COUNTY COUNCIL Early Years Creativity Project Training nursery and early years pracitioners throughout West Sussex, using Children's Centres as the focus for community and commercially based nursery and day care providers. Modelling and teaching drama based skills to develop practice. Exploring the sense of story, sequence and play in young children. celebrating the child's own play and embracing the concept of free flow and planning for the children's own interests. Joy's story - aged 3 years He eated some carrots. He saw the crocodile. “I want to come in your house” said the rabbit “I want to come in your house too” said the crocodile and he ate the rabbit.
UNICORN THEATRE, LONDON July 2007 DAFFODIL SCISSORS by Philip RIDLEY Director for two schools in the pilot schools festival. Role included mentoring teachers to become directors. design images by Laura McEwan
Thank you Andy Thanks a lot! If you didn't tell me to do big Ka Pow moves I don't think the audience would of laughed so THANKS! Arbar Dear Andy I would just like to say we couldn't have done the performance as good as we did without you. We were lucky to have help from a professional like you, to make our play the best it could get. Shilpa
OnO Theatre Company Spring 2007 POOR TED by Ali Campbell - Primary School Tour A Theatre In Health Education project - Poor Ted explores Substance Use and Misuse with children aged from 8 to 11. With a combination of pre and post performance workshops, a highly charged performance this forum based experience enables children to explore the themes and subject at their own level. Comments from Teachers... "It was a super production - very powerful" "A very powerful piece of drama - handled well. Messages conveyed successfully to the students" "Many thanks, we have a number of vunerable children in this ares: - issues very relevant to making choices and peer pressure."

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