Drama is central to life and learning at Holy Trinity and S Silas. On this page you will find a selection of games, stories and call and response chants that you can use at home. Children will be familiar with many of these!
An old favourite….
Children, you all know Grandma, Grandma – but parents might not! Try this altogether…..
The Shakespeare Dance Workout – try it now!…. and a word about The Primary Shakespeare Company.
Check out this special warm-up based around characters from Shakespeare’s The Tempest. This is for the online resources which The Primary Shakespeare Company have been sharing with schools across the world. Try it for yourselves right here…
The Primary Shakespeare Company (PSC), founded at Holy Trinity and S. Silas, is a charity that was set up back in 2009 to share the arts-centred approach to learning that we have at HTSS with other schools. They run performance projects with over 50 mainstream primary schools, and four schools for children with Special Needs. They have an online resource which is open to everyone – please feel free to use it – and share it! You’ll need to sign up when you first use it – but this is only so that the charity can report to funders how many people use the site. It’s totally free.
Games
Once you’ve learnt how to play this game, try substituting other animals or beings for Alien, Tiger and Cow. Try and invent a version based on the characters in The Tempest: Prospero, Caliban and Ariel, for example.
Challenge yourself to get faster and faster without making a mistake. Could you extend this game so that it became 1-10? What move would you do on 9?
Stories
Below, you’ll find a story called The Blue Cap – with the original ending, and one of our HTSS pupil’s very inventive alternative ending. Here, you can also listen to a lovely reading from our very own Mr McIntryre…