Booking for the Masterclasses session is now live.
Date and Time: Tuesday 8 July 2025, 9am to 3.30pm plus optional twilight networking to 5pm.
Venue: Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, 44 Webber Street, London SE1 8QW (map).
Suitable for: Class teachers (EYFS-KS2), English Subject Leads, Senior Leadership.
Relevant areas of the National Curriculum: Language and Vocabulary, Oracy, Reading, Writing, PSHE.
Description of session
Full day teacher CPD.
Enhance your knowledge and understanding of a wide range of classroom drama approaches which are proven to build children’s confidence and self-esteem, provoke creativity and language development, enhancing engagement and attainment in reading comprehension and a range of written outcomes.
Detail of activity
This Masterclass will be delivered by an expert advisory teacher from CLPE in partnership with drama and oracy creative learning specialist, Kate Hopewell and will provide teachers and school leaders with a wide range of drama and oracy activities that can be used and applied across all areas of literacy and the wider curriculum.
All activities are designed to sit within core curriculum teaching and learning, targeting National Curriculum and Early Years Statutory Framework objectives and eliciting higher quality learning outcomes for all pupils.
We will explore narrative, character and worlds within the story to unlock learning potential through the usage of 3D learning strategies.
We will provide tools that can be used time and again in order to bridge cultural and experiential gaps, ensuring that the provision is accessible and inclusive to all.
We will explore how to develop and draw upon an extended unit of work inspired by a high-quality text that will support improved attainment in literacy and support thinking skills and creativity across the curriculum.
Key areas of focus
• Why, when and how to use drama to engage with any area of learning.
• How to ensure behaviour for learning and personalise learning through drama.
• Approaches that develop communication, creative thinking, collaborative working, and social cohesion within a classroom.
• How to unlock a narrative and bring a quality text to life using approaches that develop reading engagement, comprehension skills, fluency and stamina.
• Explore learning approaches which are proven to inspire and enhance attainment for all, and especially for groups of pupils who might be perceived as reluctant to engage or hard to reach.
• Practices that empower children with a confidence and ownership and lead to curious, engaged and motivated writers who work collaboratively, individually and independently.
• Activities that ensure enhanced language and vocabulary acquisition,
engagement with the world and the development of imaginative ideas.
Takeaway
Participants will receive a high-quality children’s book for each primary phase (EYFS, KS1, KS2), as well as associated teaching sequences of detailed planning to support the implementation of the ideas from the day, to inspire creative and meaningful practice in their own classrooms and schools.
