21 Benefits of booking Drama, Film and Public speaking workshops for schools and summer schools.
Perhaps you are looking for a workshop to motivate, reward or inspire your students or you need a coach for a school programme you are running. Maybe there’s part of the curriculum that you’d love to see brought to life more vividly or you’re a student or parent who wants to bring a great drama, film or public speaking workshop to your school or youth organisation. It could be that you’re staffing for your summer school in Oxford or London or across the UK and you want the deliver your students an exceptional film, drama or public speaking course or workshop. Whatever your reason for booking with us, the benefits of our school workshops are vast; we’ve compiled our top 21 below!
SELF AWARENESS
Our workshops in film, drama and public speaking train students and participants in performance and media skills whilst helping guide them towards a better understanding of who they are and how the can best express themselves personally and professionally. We believe that students thrive best when exercising their talents, connecting to their passion and living their values. Our workshops provide a creative environment in which to explore all three, leading to greater self awareness and better decision making.
21st century skills
Communication, Creativity, Collaboration, Critical Thinking and Digital Literacy have been highlighted by educational professionals across the world as some of the key 21st century skills. We’re super excited that our drama film and public speaking workshops for schools and summer schools are particularly awesome at helping students in these areas, supporting you to deliver a more dynamic, engaging and valuable education.
Student wellbeing
Our creative workshops for schools and summer schools have a positive impact on students’ wellbeing and enjoyment of learning. Practising skills in film, drama and public speaking, the workshops support students in honest expression, emotional intelligence and creative communication, helping them to articulate their ideas with confidence and feel good in the process. Through our creative workshops for schools, students take steps towards to positive mental health, engaging in all 5 of the steps to positive mental wellbeing.
develop Confidence
Confidence and self awareness can often be the thing that separates someone at a job interview or socially. Our workshops enhance students interpersonal and communication skills, helping them to be confident (not arrogant!) and to excel in their preferred style of communication. Our balanced approach to confidence explores a ‘right sizing’ of capabilities, recognition of talents, development of skills and a healthy encouragement of self belief based on each student’s unique personality and abilities. We recognise that that there are many types of confidence and we help students to find the style that works for them through our creative workshops for schools and summer schools.
Overcome Fear
Fear holds so many people back from taking healthy risks and living their full potential both personally and professionally. Our school workshops encourage students to identify fears and blocks and our coaches teach them the tools to move beyond them. Exploring psychology, neuroscience, emotional intelligence, body work, mindfulness, performance, playfulness and connection, students can make significant breakthroughs around their biggest fears and challenges whilst developing skills in film, drama and public speaking.
Healthy debate & constructive conversation
We create exciting, fun and challenging workshops for schools providing a space in which to challenge and break through prejudiced and black and white thinking . Our courses cover a range of areas, for example, how to connect to an audience online, how to use digital media ethically or how to create a compelling speech. We explore, empathy, compassion and use critical thinking to explore different character points of view or how to write a compelling script. Asking questions such as ‘What is my character experiencing in this given moment?’ ‘How do we combine art and science to create a great movie?’ ‘What is the demographic of my target audience?’, we always strive to have open conversations and healthy debates about the things that matter most to students.
DEVELOP AS PEOPLE
World class education goes far beyond the the subjects taught, helping students to become better people and better citizens. Additional to our expertise in performance and media, our courses and workshops for schools, universities and colleges dive deep to challenge students and help them to make significant internal change. Often this has a significant impact on how students carry themselves and we hope that every workshop can make some small difference in bringing more positivity into the world.
Project based learning
Studies show that hands on learning delivered effectively significantly improves retention; our workshops are fun and practical experiences that utilise the science of how to create memorable workshops that resonate deeply with students. Drama, film and public speaking workshops also take a cross-curricular approach to subjects such as History, Literacy and PSHE and enable young people to develop their confidence and performance skills while gaining a fresh understanding of the books and topics they are exploring in the classroom.
A reward or inspiring event for your students
Our workshops work well as a reward or inspiring event for your students and teachers often report that the novelty of the workshop can help students to make breakthroughs in areas they have struggled with in the classroom. From inspirational speakers to excellent coaches, we can support you to broaden your student experience and ensure a memorable event for students and staff alike. We pride ourselves in finding ways to engage a wide range of students and we like to see ourselves as a key ally for schools and organisations in this regard.
team work: A role for everyone
Drama and film productions are all about team work and require excellent skills in collaboration. We bring this professional team working experience to your classroom and explore with students what is required to perform as part of a team at a high level, supporting them with their ability to collaborate, solve problems, lead and follow. Our emphasis on team work and self awareness ensures there is an interesting role for everyone, a space in which each student can thrive; whether a complete beginner or experienced pro, a striving artist or an entrepreneur or future engineer, we find ways in our workshops to engage all students in drama film and public speaking.
INSPIRE Professionialism
Right from the start of each course, we introduce the theme of professionalism and explore the skills and attributes that it takes to perform at a professional level. We emphasise professionalism and team work through out all of our school and summer school courses and workshops and also lead team building specific courses and programmes. We find that students respond well to being treated like professionals and often rise to the challenge and excel themselves in an environment that is also fun, encouraging and entertaining.
DEVELOP Communication
Whether you are a doctor speaking to a patient, a parent talking to your child or a leader talking to your team, communication is a critical life skill. Our drama, film and public speaking workshops for schools help students to find their voice, express themselves honestly and to find their best form of expression. Who knows where strong communication might lead you and your students going forward; it could help to get your product and idea seen across the world, pitch your latest business idea or help you land a role in the West End or on the BBC as it has with past students!
Improve language skills
Immersion whilst learning a new language has proven to be one of the most effective ways to develop language skills and our workshops in drama, film and public speaking are excellent practical courses for practising a foreign language. Covering a wide range of skills from voice projection to script writing, pronunciation to improvising a drama scene, or use of colloquial humour and speech writing, the language benefits from our workshops are vast. In a short space of time students develop language skills and their confidence in spoken English often blossoms. We’re proud of moments when students who had never spoken in front of an audience in English before make that breakthrough or when more advanced students find eloquence and we love providing them with the tools to expand their language speaking abilities.
life long friends and collaborators
Our workshops are extremely fun and an open spaces for students to make friends and develop team spirit whilst developing skills in drama, film and public speaking. This is especially useful in situations where students are working together for the first time, exploring collaboration or in situations where students are studying alongside students from around the world or different schools. Through playfulness, challenge and connection, our film, drama and pubic speaking workshops get the happy chemicals flowing leading to life long friends and learning memories. We support schools and organisations in creating a sense of togetherness and encourage a truly vibrant, expressive and creative environment.
Storytelling
Whether an aspiring lawyer, parent or leader, stories can be used to convey important information, strengthen or challenge opinions and help convey values and drive important projects. Our ability to craft stories and organise in large groups based on these narratives is in fact what sets humans apart as a species! Story telling is central to culture, politics, history and our workshops excel at helping students with tale telling and communication skills. These skills span across drama film and public speaking to help participants sharpen abilities to tell stories in person and online.
Drama, film and public speaking resources for teachers
Many teachers have reported finding the workshops helpful for how they approach communication in the classroom and some have even booked our workshops for teachers. Our experience in psychology is often supportive to teachers understanding of themselves and many teachers adopt games we use for their classroom. We hope to share our tools and resources with teachers and love nothing more to have a chat about our experience with developing confidence and communication in young people.
Make your school standout
If you’re looking for a way to make your school or organisation standout, our workshops could be for you. The films we create with students and our speaking and drama productions are a great way to showcase your school and students, whilst giving the students and unforgettable experience. We can also provide video to market your school or workshop - a win win win situation! Check out a few samples here!
ENCOURAGE creativity
Creative skills come in many shapes and sizes: from problem solving to people skills, to spotting product opportunities or coming up with ideas to entertain your family, or from graphic design and performance expertise to visual art and event planning. In our workshops we love to provide a vibrant and open creative process for students - bringing inspirational creativity to your classroom. People are often surprised about the opportunities that are out there for students with high levels of creativity and we bring industry experience from working with top international brands and organisations into your school. As one of the key 21st century skills we aim to give students confidence and set their creativity on fire (not literally).
Improvisation
Improvisation is not only immensely fun but it can challenge, excite and inspire. The improvisation we explore across our film, public speaking and drama workshops for schools and summer schools can help students to make choices, be better listeners, become more positive and creative, overcome fear and explore how to become more open. It also happens to be hugely fun and great for mental wellbeing! An amazing craft that is sure to bring joy to staff and students alike!
LEARN Digital skills
With millions of views for our professional videos globally, we have a passion for helping students with digital skills and bringing our industry informed experience to schools, organisations and businesses. Whether you book a drama, film or public speaking workshop for your school or summer school, we share our knowledge of 21st century media and creativity, supporting you with this world changing communication medium and ensuring students can put it to use in healthy, creative ways.
Happiness & self awareness
Our ultimate goal is happy students and happy clients. In our workshops we hope to inspire students to challenge themselves and discover what makes them happy and where they can most excel. We place emphasis on making workshops fun, engaging and challenging leading to a happier student experience and better retention of learning. The science shows us that students and staff learn more in positive, playful environments and we love nothing more than to bring this magic to your school, classroom or organisation.
professional coaches and teachers with INDUSTRY SKILLS
Our coaches and teachers work professionally in their given areas of expertise, ensuring your students learn from people with the training, experience and expertise to guide them. Whether you book a film, drama or public speaking workshop for your school or summer school, our passionate youth inspiring DBS checked coaches are primed to bring you and your students the very best experience which relates to the industry and the wider world.