Preschool drama resources

THIS BUNDLE CONTAINS ALL OF THE MACBETH LESSONS, IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSION ACTIVITY BOOKLET, AND THE POINTLESS GAME! This engaging, varied, and informative scheme of learning is designed to help students gain understanding, assessment skills, and key interpretations of William Shakespeare's 'Macbeth.' Made up of a wide-range of interesting and exciting lessons, students should complete this scheme having gathered vital skills in: interpreting the significant meanings of the text, understanding the writer's ideas within the text, analysing key characters, settings, and themes, and understanding Shakespeare's language devices. Stimulating, visual, and easily adaptable, these lessons provide suggested learning objectives and outcomes for students of a wide-range of abilities - The vast majority of tasks are differentiated to allow for different abilities and needs in your classroom. Each lesson loosely follows this logical learning journey to ensure that students learn in bite-size steps: - Engaging - Defining/ Understanding - Identifying/Remembering - Analysing/ Creating - Peer or self evaluating. All of the lessons are interactive, employ a variety of different teaching and learning methods and styles, and are visually-engaging. Resources, worksheets, and lesson plans are all provided.

*These lessons were initially written for students with mild to moderate special needs from ages 10-18* **Tailored correctly, these lessons would also be suitable in many mainstream settings** -A five lesson workshop using drama to improve self-esteem. -Classes are designed so that they can be delivered by anyone, drama educator or not. -Successful with both full classes or small intervention groups. -Lessons include role play, structured games, team work opportunities, reflection, student led activities and physical body and vocal work. -Extension ideas. -Resources included.

'Superheroes!' is one of a series of outstanding assemblies created for primary school children, which includes full script songs and prayers with a part for every child. This assembly is ready to go! ‘Superheroes’ links with many areas of the National Curriculum, including the: English, Music, Drama and PSHE spheres, with a theme that is rooted in upstanding values and is relevant to the children’s everyday lives and interests –including a healthy ‘self-esteem’ injection for all! This assembly is all about recognising the ‘superhero’ in you, giving each child the chance to shine by stating their own unique ‘superhero’ power – from amazing reading skill or artistic genius to the sports star or reliable friend. The assembly also teaches to spot the ‘superhero’ in others and to be thankful for those who support and and save us in a hundred little ways every day. There is a part for every child – whether acting, singing, dancing or leading a prayer! Plans created by an Ofsted Good/Outstanding primary school teacher – History and Drama co-ordinator – with over ten years of experience. These outstanding assemblies have consistently engaged and excited all 30 performers in class… and have even got the adults in the audience up on their feet!

A collection of KS2 resources on the topic of comparing people and places. Please leave me a review and I will send you any other resource of your choice for free (contact me: office@oceansproject.com). Check out my other resources at my shop: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/sarah277 Let me know if you have any resource requests and I will tailor make a resource for you.

An array of detailed, differentiated and interactive Units of work to suit a variety of learners. These include planning, resources and Powerpoints to support in: Adverts, Autobiographies, Authors and Letters, Performance Poetry, Report writing, Shape poems and Calligrams and Stories with issues and Dilemmas.

Fun script with 4 scenes and 12 parts which can be used with lower primary (ages 6-10) students, 10-30 students (if different students play different scenes). Can be used in a one-hour lesson. Enjoy!

This PPT game is good to practise and improve English speaking skills. Divide the class into 3 teams. Ask one student from each team to sit facing away from the screen. Team 1 starts the game. They have to choose a number on slide 2. If you click on the number, it will take you to a new slide. The students in Team 1 must describe the given word, WITHOUT saying the taboo words. The student from Team 1 (who is sitting in “the hot chair” facing away from the screen) has to guess the word in 20 seconds. If the word is correct, Team 1 wins 10 points. Then it’s Team 2’s turn. Then it’s Team 3’s turn. You can write the points in the boxes on slide 2. In the next round you can ask new students to come and sit in the “hot chairs” facing away from the screen. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins.

This booklet is packed full of drama games, tasks, workshops and a variety of ideas adaptable to any lesson. It also includes monologues, concentration builders and confidence boosting tasks. It provides helpful tips and advice for each activity including age ranges, ability and group sizes. It is so useful for primary teachers to have to hand in the classroom! Accessible for ages 5 to 11 years. I created this myself as my final project for University and I use it regularly in my classroom - my colleagues do to.

A set of ten large posters for classroom display depicting puppets from around the world. Each poster features a colourful closeup photograph of the type of puppet, a brief description, a detail photo and a thumbnail map of the world depicting its location. An introductory poster provides an overview of the puppets and their locations around the world. Each poster also has a QR code that links to relevant web resources The pack would be useful for primary / lower secondary classroom displays, as stimulus pictures for project based learning or Arts units, or as reference material.

A delightful Nativity Play with a modern day twist. An enlightened Parish Priest determined to make parishioners focus on the real meaning of Christmas hands each family a box of Christmas Crackers as they leave Midnight Mass. These are the 'Nativity Crackers' and each riddle and gift reveals something about the Christmas Story. As the crackers are pulled and the message dawns on the family, they freeze frame and we are transported back in time to the events of the first Christmas Story. The children, staff and parents of two Hertfordshire schools loved this play. The songs in a variety of styles offer much scope for actions, dance and solos and the script can be adapted to suit your needs.

This was written for a Christmas Nativity Mass at Holy Family Church Welwyn Garden City in 2007 and retells the age old Christmas Story interspersed with bidding prayers and appropriate carols. A Tableau is built up during the narration.

Based on the traditional children's story, this version of Hansel and Gretel is perfect for a class assembly or short play. Running between 12-15 minutes, the play retells the story using humour and music and, although ideally suited for lower KS2, could easily be made to work with older or younger groups. All songs come with backing tracks and lead sheets for rehearsal or performance and are original. Due to the nature of school assemblies and productions, purchasers are free to change any aspect of the work to suit their needs for performance within their own school or institution. If you enjoy this production, please leave feedback and if you would like to see other stories produced then let me know!