An inclusive, interactive sensory circus adventure LIVE in your school!
About the show
Embracing Arts welcomes you to the big top – except we’ve lost all of our performers! We need YOUR PUPILS to entertain and show off their circus skills! Dazzle at our daring lion tamers, become tenacious tightrope walkers, show off your stealth as strong men and women, be amazed at acrobats who will throw themselves through a ring of fire! Cry with laughter at crazy, clumsy clowns. Let’s make this the GREATEST SHOW your school has ever seen!
Key Stage / Year Groups:
Reception, KS1, SEND including KS2 in SEND settings
Relevant areas of the National Curriculum:
- Arts and Creativity
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Communication
- Speaking, listening and engagement
- British Values - Individual Liberty
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About the pupil workshops
Through the workshops, we delve deeper into sensory exploration and creating sensory theatre, as well as giving each pupil an opportunity to access all the sensory props featured in our show. Pupils are encouraged to learn a new skill such as plate spinning – requiring hand-eye coordination and balance. We also look at communication, and how we can include both verbal and non-verbal learners by exploring physicality, keyword signing and other sensory approaches to make learning a fully inclusive experience.
Teacher twilight CPD
The CPD will prepare staff for the approach that Embracing Arts uses for multi-sensory learning. There will be practical elements of using ‘everyday’ items in new ways to create an immersive, accessible learning strategy. We will explore how we can bring core subjects to life through the techniques of performance and sensory engagement. We will also give a focus to keyword signing and Social and Visual Stories to show how we, and the staff, can prepare learners to access this subject.
This CPD can accommodate up to 30 staff members.
About Embracing Arts
Embracing Arts is a sensory theatre company with a mission to make the arts accessible for all. We produce sensory theatre shows, workshops and parties for children with special educational needs, disabilities and life-limiting illness, their families, carers and teachers.
