Secondary School

A complicated comedy about a plastic bottle. Poor old PET #1. Distantly related to pre historical plankton, used and cast aside every day, desperate not to be buried or cremated, […]

On 4th July, 2024, a group of Year 7 students from Wheelers Lane Technology college will pull a double decker bus across a school field. This long awaited sequal to […]

“If we had to shoot films of Shakespeare’s plays in our city today where would our locations be and what would we use as our props?” This was the simple […]

Each year we help Year 8 at Saltley Academy stage twin productions of a play by Shakespeare on the site of his house in Stratford-Upon-Avon. This year it is Romeo and Juliet.

At the end of the year Saltley Academy relaunched their house system and asked us to help them. We ran workshops with groups of student leaders in which they pulled […]

Saltley Academy was planning for its students to return after lockdown. Where lots of schools were using hazard tape to remind their students about social distancing and one way systems […]

Washwood Heath Academy, BirminghamJuly 2018 After working with the Science Department in the Autumn term transforming their very long corridor into a learning resource via Equation Decoration, in the Summer […]

Archbishop Ilsley School, BirminghamNovember/December 2018 I am Hedi was a performance piece created as part of a national arts education project, Echo Eternal. This project pairs schools with artists who […]

The Jewellery Quarter Academy, BirminghamPerformed @ A E HarrisJanuary/February 2018 Zigi Doesn’t Hate was a performance piece created as part of a national arts education project, Echo Eternal. This project […]

This ambitious project with the Geography Department’s GCSE students asked them to think about and present lots of important ideas around and facts about the shifting of techtonic plates, volcanoes […]

Students and staff in the Graphics department worked with Gareth Courage designing a new map of the school inspired by the famous approach taken by the London Underground. The students […]

University of Birmingham SchoolAcademic Years 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 When introduced to Big City Writing, the poetry newspaper made by students at Brookfields Primary School, teachers at University of […]

Washwood Heath Academy, BirminghamInstalled 10 & 13 November, 2017 The staff at Washwood Heath Academy are familiar with our vinyl work down the road at Saltley Academy and so asked […]

Washwood Heath Academy, Birmingham5th February, 2016 Stan’s Cafe were invited by the mathematics department at Washwood Heath Academy to create a fun maths event for World Maths Day. They wanted […]

Stomp Your Roots.Teachers in the English and Music departments we keen to commission a dance and percussion project designed, amongst other things, to teach students important root words in music, […]

In July 2016, Saltley became the first Birmingham secondary school to receive Level 1 of the UNICEF Rights Respecting Schools Award. This is supposed to take 3 years but they […]

Having created significant impact in Saltley Academy in the previous year an attempt was made this year to pass the responsibility for commissioning projects down to middle managers. Lots of […]

Inspired by the success of St. George’s Steps teams within the school collected inspirational quotes and key learning points to be installed on the risers of a series of staircases […]

Following the success of St. George’s Steps commissioned by Saltley Academy, Birmingham City Council’s Equalities, Community Safety and Cohesion Service asked us to devise a project that would engage young […]

Washwood Heath Academy, Birmingham9th April, 2016 We were looking for ways in which the life of the theatre company and the life of the school could mix a little more. […]

The first year of working with a school involves trust and understanding building up on both sides. Our first year working with Saltley Academy was marked by three significant project […]

Saltley Academy, BirminghamOpen to guests 09:30 & 11:0023rd April and in school until 17th July 2015 Saltley Academy became our third partner school in September 2014. The school was re-launching, […]

Washwood Heath Academy & The Barbican, London3rd June, 2014 Stan’s Cafe were invited to be Artists in Residence for the Warwick Commission into the Future of Cultural Value this prestigious […]

March & June, 2011Wilnecote High School, Tamworth Wilnecote High School came to us keen to explore the opportunities presented by running longer lessons, teaching outside the classroom and giving students […]

Beaumont Leys School, LeicesterOpen to the public 13:00 – 15:0021st & 28th November, 5th & 12th December 2009 When we were invited to Beaumont Leys School to discuss a possible […]

Spring, 2007Alleynes High School, Stone Project aims: To model a holistic approach to science teaching, in which pupils discover science in the world and see themselves as active agents in […]

Spring, 2007St. Peter’s High School and International Language College, Stoke-on-Trent Project aims: To improve pupils’ ability to construct and present balanced argumentsin relation to Science with confidence and, from these […]

Castle Vale School, Birmingham, 2004Speedwell Technology College, Bristol, 2004The Holte School, Birmingham, 2004Trinity School, Nottingham, 2004Frankley Community High School, Birmingham, 2005 A commission from The Wellcome Trust’s Pulse Programme led […]

Summer Term 2004Castle Vale, Birmingham In Castle Vale School classes 8tpc and 8dfp voted for the ten things they would most like to change if they ruled the school. Over […]