Showtime! Resources for the director/stage manager

It's showtime! Preparing for a school show can be stressful, with so many moving parts and people to coordinate. So, here are some of the useful documents I've collected/created over the past few years teaching drama. If you are a new drama teacher or looking...

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Exploring nonsense stories through Drama: Building the town

This is a follow up to my previous post, where I introduce this unit of work based on imaginative storytelling. I have now started this scheme with my Grade 2 students and so far we have read the first half of the poem together. We began to discuss the meaning...

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Exploring nonsense stories through Drama

A few years ago, I had the pleasure of learning from the impelling Debra Kidd at an ISTA event. During a masterclass, she introduced us to a scheme of work using Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky poem. Through inquiry, dramatic role-playing, storytelling and literary...

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No Is Not Enough: Activism in the drama classroom

On my journey to school recently I've added some audiobooks to my playlists, in addition to the various podcasts I am already subscribed to (Radiolab, The Drama Teacher Podcast, Flash Forward, Under The Skin, to suggest a few). It's a great way to digest some...

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Accelerating up to the IB: London TAPS with ISTA

This past weekend, IB Theatre students from ISB took part in the Theatre Arts Programme Symposium (or TAPS for short) in central London, to help accelerate their learning and prepare them for the IB. A weekend more packed than the stalls at The National Theatre,...

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48h Theatre Project

This past weekend, 21 Middle School students participated in the 48h Theatre Project at ISB. Starting at 4pm on Friday evening and finishing 4pm Sunday, it was an event of team-building, creativity, gaining confidence and having fun. In that time, the cast...

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What/where knows you best?

"No one knows me like the piano in my mother's homeYou would show me I had something some people call a soulAnd you dropped out the sky, oh you arrived when I was three years oldNo one knows me like the piano in my mother's home" Sampha- (No One Knows...

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