Speech and Drama Classes
If you're searching for ways to help your child communicate with confidence -our experience is that children need time to build skills weekly: in an engaging and supportive educational environment. Focussing on both public speaking and drama performance skills, our programmes offer children an opportunity to develop skills that make a positive impact in all areas of life.
Our programme is not generic: after taking time to build rapport with students we assess their skills and create a teaching and learning plan designed around their next skill steps and interests. Our programme produces measurable results.
Students will learn
- Clear speech
- Listening and Questioning skills
- Explaining ideas
- Mime improvisation, role play, interviews
- Storytelling
- Character performance
- Reading aloud and sight reading texts
- Poetry, prose and character recital
- Forming and presenting an opinion
- Talks (personal experience, explaining a skill, informative, persuasive)
- Social Speeches
- Impromptu Talks and Storytelling
- Vocal theory
Students will be able to
- Speak clearly, develop vocal projection and engage an audience.
- Consider the audience and modify communication for impact.
- Develop critical and creative thinking.
- Develop skills to think on their feet quickly.
- Develop an appreciation of literature, language, and text.
- Listen and effectively question.
- Develop an awareness of body language and how to build rapport.
- Read aloud with clarity and vitality.
- Develop improvised and devised performance skills.
- Share ideas with enthusiasm, fluency, and effectiveness.
- Present talks on a range of topics for defined purpose and audience.
- Know how to present a short social speech in any situation.
- Know and use drama elements and conventions.
- Reflect on their process and develop self awareness.
- Learn skills to organise themselves and rehearse their performance.