Each Tuesday in the first half term of 2023 Year 4 at George Betts Primary School in Smethwick worked with James on their local history topic. In the morning 9 […]
Prompted by the death of Elizabeth II and coronation of Charles III a cast of almost nintey ten and eleven year olds take us back to the death of Elizabeth […]
How would you build a more healthy neighbourhood? A huge new hospital is being built on the boarder of Sandwell and Birmingham and we were commissioned by Sandwell Cultural Educaiton […]
Schools: Billeseley Primary, Chandos Primary, Croft Primary, George Betts, Kings Rise Shirestone Primary, Shireland Hall Primary, Tiverton Primary, Woods Bank Primary.
The inspirational stories of weightlifters Precious McKenzie and Emily Campbell made into ten different shows by ten different primary schools – all called Precious Emily, combining to become a gala performance.
2020/22 Exploring how teaching of English can be improved by using Stan’s Cafe’s rehearsal room techniques in the classroom. The Classroom Stage is a multi-year action research project supported by […]
Summer 2021Holy Family Catholic Primary School Returning to school after lockdowns students, needed to learn to enjoy school again, to regain their confidence and communication skills. We were asked to […]
After having worked with Billesley Primary School over a number of years on a wide variety of different creative projects, in 2018 we decided to take a slightly different appproach. […]
February – March, 2017Brookfields Primary School Big City Writing was a writing poetry project the Year 3 and Year 4 students of Brookfields Primary School. It took inspiration from photographs […]
Alex’s Adventures This ‘choose your own adventure’ story was written by Year 5 at Victoria Park Primary Academy. It is a bit of an experiment. The pupils all started writing […]
Billesley Primary School and the R.S.C.July 2016 In 2015 Billesley pupils worked with architect Yinka Danmole to design a slot together stage that coud be put up, performed on, taken […]
Billesley Primary School7 – 11 July 2014 Throughout our various projects with Billesley Primary during the 2013/14 academic year we aimed to develop the pupils’ speaking and listening skills whether […]
This was a short project with Year Two in 2014 in which we helped with their summer term seaside topic. Charlotte Goodwin workedwith the children over five Friday afternoons to […]
In the 2012 – 2013 academic year we worked with Year 4 to create a Tudor Board Game. In the 2013 – 2014 we decided to try something different and […]
This project with Year 3 in 2014 had a number of different strands. We began by creating a weather station in the playgroundwith a thermometer, wind speed gauge, weather vane […]
Billesley Primary SchoolDecember 2014 We worked with Year Six to develop their learning about World War Two through a week long series of challenges. On the first day after a […]
Billesley Primary SchoolApril 2013 2013 saw the tenth anniversary of our internationally popular performance installation Of All The People In All The World. We had been invited to stage a […]
Back Page March 2010Whitehall Primary School, Leicester Whitehall Primary School, in Leicester had some Year 6students who they thought were excellent, but needed stretching, theywanted these students to write sports […]
Many topics reoccur in the school curriculum year after year. In some circumstances ideas we share in one year are then used by teachers in subsequent years without our help. […]
Billesley Primary SchoolJuly 13th 2013 We began our first year working with Billesley Primary School with The Marble Run, in which wecreated a huge marble run which travelled around the […]
2012. Our first project with Billesley Primary School was a highly ambitious marble run. We set the pupils and the staff the challenge of completing a circuit of theirfour main […]
In the first year of our collaboration with Billesley Primary School we were invited to work with their two Year 2 classes. They were due to look at The Seaside […]
Smartie Mission was made in January 2009, with Year 5 at Christ The King Catholic Primary School, Birmingham. In September 2008 Year 6 had visited our presentation of Of All […]
Autumn, 2008Christ the King Catholic Primary School, Birmingham Christ the King Catholic Primary School in Kingstanding invited us to help with an enterprise project Year 6 were undertaking. Working in […]
Fruit and Veg City was originally made with Year 4 pupils at Forestdale School in the Frankly district of Birmingham. The project was partially inspired by seeing fruit vegetable animals […]
May & July, 2005Raeside Junior School, Birmingham Year 5 students from Raeside Junior School spent the summer term exploring Frankley,mapping the landscape and their place within it. Kites were built […]
