In-Schools Touring

Bringing high quality arts experiences into your school through performances and workshops

• Animate Arts Company - The Paper Allotment

  About the show

  The Paper Allotment is a life-size art installation made from paper and cardboard. Setting the scene is the allotment’s shed, accompanied by a team of gardeners (artists) who will invite pupils to craft and grow a paper garden around the plot. This is a multi-sensory and interactive experience. We will all work together because there will be lots of creative, hands-on things for everybody to do in the allotment.

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  Key stage / year groups:

  EYFS, KS1, KS2 and SEND

  Relevant areas of the National Curriculum

  • Art and DT (construction, artists, tools/ materials and practical techniques)
  • Sciences (nature, life cycles, plants, wildlife). Geography (seasons, weather, physical landscapes/places)
  • Personal, social and emotional development
  • Wellbeing, healthy lifestyles, environment

  About the pupil workshops

  Led by professional artists and inspired by The Paper Allotment installation, each class will be challenged to create their very own collaborative, glowing artwork for their classroom windows. Using colourful paper and natural sunlight, pupils will create a visually stunning display that promotes the importance of caring for our environment and nature.

  Teacher twilight CPD

  A visual arts CPD session that explores themes around nature and how to creatively bring the outdoors into the classroom. Teachers will be introduced to a wide range of relevant artists, artworks and activity ideas that can be used in art lessons and other subjects. This training will develop teachers’ creative ideas, skills and art knowledge to compliment The Paper Allotment project.

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  About Animate Arts Company

  Animate Arts make high-quality, inspirational art projects that creatively engage people of all ages, abilities and backgrounds. Nurtured by a team of professional artists, performers, and creatives, our projects bring people together through art. We build teams who work collaboratively together to create extraordinary things – often from paper and cardboard!

  

• Apples and Snakes - SPIN: Poetry Performance and Workshop

  About the show

  SPIN is a live poetry gig for young people. There are three performers; a poet, a storyteller and a rapper, who each perform a 15 minute set, creating a 45 minute performance. The performers use techniques such as call & response to make sure the show is very interactive and children are fully engaged. SPIN can be performed to the whole school or a Key Stage… or to however many can fit in the hall!

  SPIN has a simple pop-up set and needs a mic & PA. (We can provide!)

  Key stage / year groups:

  EYFS, KS1, KS2. Relaxed performances available for SEND settings

  Relevant areas of the National Curriculum

  • English
  • Literacy
  • Oracy
  • Personal, social, emotional development

  About the pupil workshops

  Workshops will be delivered by skilled poet educators to one year group, empowering pupils to create their own spoken word poetry written during the session. The activities will support speaking, listening and collaboration skills in a safe creative space.

  Teacher Twilight CPD

  Led by an experienced poet educator, the CPD will provide a toolkit of exercises for teachers to develop confidence, insight and creative approaches to speaking, writing and performing poetry with the whole class.

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  About Apples and Snakes

  Apples and Snakes is England’s leading organisation for spoken word with an international reputation for producing engaging, transformative and inspiring poetry experiences. We commission and develop artists, and produce events and participation programmes. We amplify ignored voices, champion poets and performance poetry, and challenge expectations of what poetry is and can be.

  

• icandance - Stronger Together: Specialised Inclusive Dance

  About the show

  This interactive dance performance explores the themes of ‘same but different’, ‘I am STRONG when…’ and ‘Stronger Together’. It will be performed by our disabled youth dance company of 6-8 dancers aged 16-25 with a range of disabilities. It is an interactive show where the audience will become part of the performance and explore the themes, creating a new part to the performance.

  Key stage / year groups:

  KS1, KS2, including SEND

  Relevant areas of focus:

  • Creativity, Learning and Personal, Social and Emotional Development.

  • Physical Education: to enjoy moving your bodies with control and confidently create movement patterns.

  • Whole learning (disciplinary knowledge of Dance, innovation and creation, self-knowledge, collaboration, communication, responsibility).

  About the pupil workshops

  Facilitators, drawing from their lived disability experiences, guide students in crafting an inclusive ‘Dancing Manifesto’ using props and music. Through creative workshops, inclusive language, and collaborative efforts, each participant shapes a unique celebration of differences. The ‘Dancing Manifesto’ can be shared with the whole school community for wider impact.

  Teacher twilight CPD

  The training, led by Juliet Diener, Founder and CEO of icandance, will share specialised approaches utilising dance and performance to empower children in all inclusive learning environments.

  The session will be interactive and explore creative strategies with time for participants to share and reflect on current examples within their own practice.

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  About icandance

  icandance is an inclusive community who empower disabled children and young people (CYP) through dance and performance. We believe dance gives CYP a voice and performances offer opportunities to be seen and celebrated for what CAN be achieved. By doing so, we challenge perceptions of disability and use dance as an opportunity to change perspectives.

  

• Little Angel Theatre - Welcome: The Magic Sketchbook!

  About the show

  Little Angel Theatre’s show was developed with refugee children. This energetic, interactive performance encourages kindness to new people who have travelled from distant places. The story begins in Eli’s bedroom as he gets ready for school. But today is a day unlike any other, his shirt has magically shrunk, his socks manage to attach themselves to each other and the biggest surprise of all is his laundry basket is home to a new, very shy, visitor Effy! Eli learns how to welcome Effy and together they discover exciting worlds as Effy draws in Eli’s magic sketchbook. They connect through laughter and play and learn about one another resulting in a warm new friendship.

  Key stage / year groups:

  • EYFS, KS1, Lower KS2, SEND

  Relevant areas of the National Curriculum

  • Art and design (construction, artists, tools/materials and practical techniques).

  • Creativity, Learning and Personal, Social and Emotional Development

  About the pupil workshops

  The ‘Welcome’ workshop involves students designing and making a butterfly puppet to be used by them in one of the interactive opportunities during the performance of Welcome: The Magic Sketchbook. The workshop also allows time for reflection around the themes in the show.

  Teacher twilight CPD

  The session will give opportunities for the teachers to learn about the themes, ideas and issues of the Welcome! Project. Teachers will be given the opportunity to make their own puppet using the same materials and brief as their students so that they can best support the workshop session on the day of the activity.

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  About Little Angel Theatre

  Little Angel Theatre has used puppetry to create and share inspiring stories since 1961, producing shows for young people which play in-house and tour. Our incredible creative learning department delivers exciting education and participatory activities in our venues, in schools and in community settings, fuelling imagination through the wonders of puppetry.

  

• Musiko Musika - Noches Carnavales - Exploring Afro-Latin Music

  About the show

  Noches Carnavales is a 50-minute performance presenting a sequence of musical pieces illustrating the musical journey of European, African and Indigenous cultures in Latin America, including the cultural impact of the slave trade. Led by Quimantu, a group of exceptional musicians from across the globe will be playing a wonderfully diverse selection of instruments including percussion, strings and woodwind from around the world.

  Key stage / year groups:

  • KS2, SEND

  Relevant areas of the National Curriculum

  • Music

  • Geography

  • Spanish

  • Personal Social and Emotional Development

  • British Values

  About the pupil workshops

  Students will use the Afro-Andean rhythm Huachaya-pasacalle to develop their rhythm skills and learn to sing the call and response song Noches Carnavales in Spanish and English before learning to play a simple melodic line using specially designed panpipes to complete the arrangement of the song.

  Teacher twilight CPD

  The session will familiarise staff with the background context of the music and cultures that pupils will encounter, alongside developing skills and introducing further repertoire so that teachers can introduce those to their students and feel confident to deliver music activities even as a non-music specialist.

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  About Musiko Musika

  Musiko Musika uses world music as a tool to enable people of all cultures to express themselves through music and work together. We develop and deliver innovative music projects, programmes, and events with a social and cultural impact including creative and instrumental workshops, ensembles, training, family learning, and digital content.

  

• Primary Arts In-School Touring Booklist

  Curated by CLPE’s librarian, our book lists contain an inspiring range of books that complement the Primary Arts In-Schools Touring Programme. The lists suggest books from EYFS through KS1 and up to KS2, including picture books, information books and novels. For each book listed, we have suggested themes related to the show.

  Each of the five shows offered through the In-Schools Touring Programme has its own carefully curated list of books. And even better – in our Brilliant Books Box, you will find a selection of these for you to use in your classroom, school library or book corner.

  We hope you and your pupils enjoy exploring them!

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• In Schools Touring Creative Treasure Chest

  This box is a wonderful resource that contains the equipment necessary to bring creativity to life in your classroom in many different ways! As well as all the basics this box contains materials that have been suggested by each of the five organisations working to deliver the Primary Arts In-Schools Touring programme: Animate Arts Company, Apples and Snakes, icandance, Little Angel Theatre and Musiko Musika.

  Download this Materials Box