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Theater Group
Youth Dance Group
Ballet Class for Girls

Peripatetic tuition

Students leave their classroom at a time agreed on by the teacher and student, and come to their half an hour singing, drama, or public speaking tuition
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  • Tutor responsibilities - collecting student payments, communicating with parents and class teachers, updating morning/rollcall announcements with lesson time amendments.
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  • School responsibilities - issuing permission notes, communicating any school excursions/exams/carnivals that may affect tuition timetables.
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     Play in a Day

Primary Schools - Students participate in a whole day of DRAMA! The day begins with fun drama games, continues with character and concept brainstorm, and concludes with play reading and further character development. The teacher then works on the play with the class with the aim of performing at awards night, performance night, Eisteddfods etc. 
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  • Tutor responsibilities - liaising with teacher for topics and concepts relevant to current areas of in-class study, delivering an all-inclusive day of drama and play-building, providing the teacher and students with a script and concept for them to further develop/rehearse.
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  • School responsibilities - issuing permission notes, collecting student payments, providing a cleared, safe and open space for games and tuition (such as a hall or cleared classroom)
  • Teacher responsibilities - controlling any
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  • student misbehaving or creating an unsafe space for drama activities, directing the play for a future performance.
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Senior Workshops

HSC and senior school students can benefit from workshops on how best to devise for group works and assignments. They gain feedback and guidance for group assignments as well as some drama games and improvisation techniques thrown in for preparation.
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  • Tutor responsibilities - liaising with teacher for topics and concepts relevant to current areas of in-class study, delivering an all-inclusive day of drama and devising techniques.
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  • School responsibilities - issuing permission notes, collecting student payments, providing a cleared, safe and open space for games and tuition (such as a hall or cleared classroom)
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  • Teacher responsibilities - controlling any student misbehaving or creating an unsafe space for drama activities.
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syllabus relevance

k-6

  • KLAs - The Education Act 1990 (NSW) sets out minimum curriculum requirements for primary schools. It requires that courses of study must be provided in each of the six key learning areas for primary education for each child during each year. The Creative and Practical Arts key learning area is one of the six KLAs.

  • MUSIC - Students develop knowledge, skills and understanding in performing music of different styles and from different times and cultures. They do this by singing, playing and moving, and organising sound into musical compositions using musical concepts.

  • DRAMA - Students experience different types of drama such as improvisation, movement, mime, story telling, readers theatre, puppetry, mask, video drama and playbuilding. These are referred to as ‘forms’.

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7-10

  • Drama fosters an understanding of continuity and change, and of the connections between different times and cultures. It provides opportunities to explore social, cultural, ethical and spiritual beliefs, including the diverse values of Australian culture.

  • Drama encourages a cooperative approach to exploring the world through enactment. The collaborative nature of this artform engages students in a creative process of sharing, developing and expressing emotions and ideas.

  • Outcome 4.1.2: A student improvises and playbuilds through group-devised processes.

  • Outcome 5.1.2: A student contributes, selects, develops and structures ideas in improvisation and playbuilding.

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The prevalence of Playbuilding in so many drama curriculum materials highlights the central place it has in the subject. Such a positioning reflects the pedagogical belief in the importance of young people’s art making in drama and the primacy of experiential, enactive learning.  (Hatton and Lovesy, 2008).

FOOTNOTES.

1. Board Of Studies, 2000, Creative Arts k-6 Principals Package, retrieved from https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/k-10/learning-areas/creative-arts/creative-arts-k-6-syllabus

2. BOSTES, 2003, Drama Years 7-10 Syllabus, retrieved from  http://www.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/syllabus_sc/pdf_doc/drama_710_syllabus.pdf 

3. Hatton, C & Lovesy, S (2008) Young at Art London and New York. Routledge.

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