START TEACHER SHOWCASE DAY, EXHIBITION & AWARDS
Norwich Playhouse Exhibition Gallery
Thursday 17 June
This project seeks to encourage six key critical analysis skills (as developed by Dr. Vicky Cave) in its participating students:
ENQUIRY
enabling the learner to ask questions, to think about the right question to ask, and to plan more questions based on the answers received.
INFORMATION PROCESSING
enabling the learner to do something with the answers received and the information gathered.
REASONING
enabling the learner to form an opinion based on the relevant information they have gathered.
EVALUATION
enabling the learner to lok at the information they have and decide whether they agree with it or not.
PROBLEM-SOLVING
giving the learner the ability to recognise that things can be changed and that this will make a difference to the end product or ideas.
CREATIVE THINKING
understanding that creative thinking is the ability to use the imagination to invent something new or to generate new ideas.
JARROLD COMPETITION AWARDS
1st PRIZE
Sprowston High School
for whole school support of the project and cross-curricular class work
Special Mention (Art & Gothic Story Writing): Aleesha Nabarro
 
2nd PRIZE
The Hewett School
for individual students' work
Special Mention: Liam Jordan & George King (ACE Dance article below)
Sara Asmail (ACE review)
William Bremner (ACE review)
 
3rd PRIZE
Alderman Peel High School
for individual students' work
Special Mention: George Randall (Norfolk's Rose review)
Rachel Williamson (Norfolk's Rose review)
Carl Hensley from Cromer High and Barry Howes from Alderman Peel, Wells-next-the sea, talk to Education Projects Manager, Roberta Hamond at the Start Exhibition
Derek Parnell from Norfolk Dance and Margaret Quigley representing 1st Prize winner, Sprowston High School, look at Cromer's display boards
The START EXHIBITION is now showing in the Norwich Playhouse Exhibition Gallery for the month of June. It will then be displayed at the Professional Development Centre for September 2010.
PRODUCTION TWO - ACE DANCE & MUSIC
IN-SCHOOLS ASSEMBLIES 1 March 2010 Sprowston High School
Gail and Ian Parmel lead their multi-media dance workshop with company members of Switch, performing to 300+ Year 8 students.
School display boards linking START & Norfolk Dance projects
at Sprowston
 Alderman Peel High School
Head of English & Drama, Barry Howes, recording ACE dancers as
they 'warm-up' his Year 8s & 9s.
Cromer High School
Cromer Year 8s get moving with ACE dancers.
PERFORMANCE DAYS for SWITCH 3-5 March
Students at the Playhouse before the performance.
Playhouse General Manager, Caroline Richardson talks to START partner Derek Parnell from Norfolk Dance about a possible summer dance project with ACE Dance & Music in Norwich.
English Advisor Besty Fowler from Norfolk County Children's Services greets teachers before a performance.
It's a full house every day for Switch!
ACE Dance & Music leading an on-stage Post Show Discussion
Dancers explaining to the audience how the special effects work during the Post Show Discussion.
Student Research Action Teams
Our Student Research Action Team from Cromer High School liked the audience participation, the thrill of live performance, the inspirational dancers. They liked meeting the company before the performance and were very interested in the music, lighting and special effects.
PRODUCTION ONE - NORFOLK'S ROSE
IN-SCHOOLS ASSEMBLIES 22 - 28 September 2009
Hellesdon High School
Hellesdon's Year 8 assembly with Matthew Field and Matthew Rowlands-Roberts, cast members of Norfolk's Rose.
 Playing Priests and Ghosts to illustrate 'Choices'.
  Students are directed by classmates to say "You''ll rot in hell!" in an exuberantly happy style and then in a 'posh' style.
 
The cast perform a short extract and then ask for suggestions from students as to how to change their characters. Suggestions included drunk, angry, confused, friendly, wierd, frightened, happy... the results were hilarious. It was all about 'Choices'.
Sprowston High School
Display boards highlighting four weeks of cross-curricular work on gothic themes
 Hewett School
Playing Priests and Ghosts (as above)
Hewett students performing "You'll rot in hell!" as if they were 'dying a slow and painful death'
 PERFORMANCE DAYS for NORFOLK'S ROSE 29-30 SEPTEMBER
Alderman Peel Year 8s are the first to arrive looking very smart, as usual
Welcome Cromer High School - proudly sporting their Playhouse stickers
Sprowston High School's Year 8s - all 300 of them - arriving in 5 coaches to see Norfolk's Rose. Welcome, welcome, welcome!
 Student Research Action Teams
Hellesdon High School's Student Research Action Team (below) reporting back on what their year group thought about seeing Norfolk's Rose at the Playhouse. The group especially liked the idea of a whole year group project, as it enabled students to meet up socially with friends in different sets. It also meant that students with widely differing experiences of the arts, were able to talk about a common event.
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