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START Project 09/10

Don't miss our recent Start podcasts on Arts Daily at Classic fm.

Podcast 1 with Alderman Peel and Hellesdon High School students, Barry Howes, Head of English at Alderman Peel; Betsy Fowler, English Advisor for County Children's Services; Matt Field, actor in Norfolk's Rose; and Caroline Richardson, General Manager of Norwich Playhouse.

Podcast 2 with Roberta Hamond, Education Projects Manager at Norwich Playhouse

As Norwich Playhouse begins it 2nd year in partnership with Children & the Arts delivering their Start Programme for 2009/10, we are delighted to announce that we will be increasing the number of Year 8 students and teachers taking part from 605 to 920!

You can read all about our project in the latest edition of the Children & the Arts Newsletter.

Schools taking part in YEAR 2:

Alderman Peel High School, Wells-next-the-Sea
Cromer High School & Language College
Hellesdon High School
The Hewett School, Norwich
Sprowston High School & Arts College

All Year 8 classes will visit the theatre to see two productions, a thrilling ghost story, Norfolk's Rose, in September 2009 and ACE Dance and Music's pulsating new mulit-cultural dance piece, Switch, in March 2010. With in-school assembly workshops, competition offers and exhibition space for all our participating schools, we know it will be another inspirational year for everyone involved. We believe that working on such a high-profile project with 920 young people and their teachers will once again demonstrate that visiting an arts venue can be exciting, friendly and easy to do.

The Start Programme has also encouraged the Playhouse to build local partnerships, and we are especially grateful for advice and support from Norfolk County Council Marketing Department, NCC Children's Services, Norfolk Dance and Jarrold's Books.

YEAR 2 in pictures
IN-SCHOOLS' ASSEMBLIES 22 - 28 September 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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