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The Torch Olympic Drama Project continued its journey to Southwell Minster yesterday. I worked with 45 year 8 children from a local secondary school. The day went very well and the children threw themselves into everything. Thank you Victoria who besides playing Pierre De Coubertin, the French nobleman attributed with the rebirth of the Olympics, and...
Over the last two days SCTC took The Torch to Guildford Cathedral. We worked with two local primary schools from year 4 through to year 6. It was a project with a difference as Beth Henze the Guildford Education Officer joined the Team and ran one of the workshops as well as acting in the play...
On Monday the route of the Olympic Torch was announced while our own Olympic Torch Drama Project travelled to Hadleigh Junior School, near Southend on Sea. Amie Buhari and David Pollendine worked with 70 children from year 5, travelling from ancient Greece to present day London 2012. David started the day training the children for...
The Fugitive Scholar, A day long workshop for KS2 history, linkiing with the study of The...
This week The Torch went to Southwark Cathedral for two days. We worked with over 140 children from 5 local schools exploring the history of the Olympics and the values behind it. On each day 4 children are picked to play the Olympian Gods who together with Zeus, played by a Scene Change actor, they...
"That was the best ever" Marilyn Education...
“I really enjoyed the play in a day! It was so fun! I mostly adored being a Greek god. I was really nervous at first when I was learning my lines. But when I’d finished learning them I wasn’t really nervous. I also really, really enjoyed doing the silent movie because it was funny and...
On Monday 23rd January Scene Change Theatre Company piloted their new Olympic ‘play in a day’ The Torch. Year 5 from Macaulay C E Primary School in Clapham learnt about how the ancient games were born out of a context of war. The warm up trains the children for their first battle re-enactment between the...
The King’s Quest finished last Tuesday at George Greens School on the Isle of Dogs. It was our first venture this term into a secondary school and working with year 8. We rehearsed the play with 70 children who at the beginning of the process wanted to stay cool and not give too much away,...
Can Prometheus convince the gods that the human spirit is still present in the Olympic games and return the flame before it is too...
