Theatre Workout Outreach
Outreach workshops enhance your creative curriculum by bringing industry professionals into your school.
Outreach workshops provide a specialised, focused opportunity to engage with drama and theatre with performance-based workshops designed to meet your group's needs.
Our most popular workshops are specialist performing arts sessions on acting, devising, physical theatre, etc, delivered with reference to ongoing or forthcoming projects to enhance the curriculum.
Bespoke workshops are also available in which drama is used pedagogically to explore other curriculum subjects, such as history, science, literacy, etc.
Theatre Workout also offer weekly classes and after-school clubs.
Reception & Key Stages 1-2
Drama outreach workshops in primary schools boosts learning through fun, creative and engaging techniques.
Our workshops offer both specialist performing arts teaching, but we can also create bespoke programmes to support project-based work.
Recommended workshop durations:
Reception & Key Stage 1: 45-60 minutes
Key Stage 2: 60-90 minutes
Sample workshops:
For Key Stages 3-5 groups we deliver engaging workshops to support the Drama curriculum with a focus on the creative process, giving ownership of the work created to the students.
These workshops address specialist topics, areas of concern, student weaknesses, building on strengths, and helping students prepare for performances and assessments.
Recommended workshop durations:
Key Stage 3: 90-120 minutes
Key Stage 4-5: 2-3 hours
Popular options include:
Circus Skills
Circus skills workshops provide children with the opportunity to play with Circus activities such as juggling balls and scarves, stilts, pedalo, hula hoops, balancing feathers, poi and diabalo.
Aside from being great fun, these activities teach students develop balance, hand-eye co-ordination, spacial awareness, perseverance and more.
Masks
For Reception to Key Stage 2 children, masks can be designed, made and played with based on popular stories, myths and fairytales. Masks can be made during our workshops or ahead of our visit, supported by online tutorials, and brought to life with our practitioners.
Key stage 3-5 students can explore mask techniques with half and full-face character masks, learning to perform physically and with conviction, while also learning the history of masks in theatre from ancient Greece to Commedia.
Puppets
Students work in small groups to make a life-sized puppet, which we bring to life through storytelling and performance.
This workshops is an excellent option for all key stages 2-5, tailored to their ability.
Playful Storytelling
Learning through play is an essential part of our educational development, whether you are aged 6 or 60!
Storytelling helps children make sense of the world.
This unique combination provides all students, particularly younger children in reception or key stages 1-2 with a fantastic introduction to drama and performance.
Play In A Day
Create, produce and perform a play in a day.
This workshops presents a unique challenge to students, demanding strong collaborative and improvisational skills as they devise an original play in just one day.
This lesson comes with pre-workshop lesson plans to prepare students for the challenge ahead.
Practitioner Roundabout
Exploring the unique performance styles of Stanislavski, Brecht and Artaud.
Students will explore multiple performance techniques and staging practices associated with these of the theatre's most influential practitioners, adapting, interpreting and improvising scenes from selected plays to experience the impact of their work.
After-school clubs
To maximise your school's creative curriculum, we offer after-school and Saturday clubs, providing professionally-led training with a curriculum based on a combination of the LAMDA curriculum and our unique experience working with major West End shows since 2006.