Education Improvement Partnership
At the core of all our education work is an extensive programme of workshops run with the Southwark Education Improvement Partnership (Excellence in Cities). This long-running programme creates tailor-made Arts projects for Primary and Secondary schools. The project offers either:
- 15 weeks of workshops in support of the curriculum and the National Literacy Strategy, planned and delivered with teachers
- An inter-schools, after-hours Youth Theatre, year-round
- An Artist in Residence placed in the school for the period of one year
Each project is designed
to meet a school's specific need.
(These workshops are open only to schools that are members of EIP)
The Best Team Since the A-Team
'An interactive, dynamic production by young actors who want
to tell you about secondary school life'
Two secondary schools, Geoffrey Chaucer Technology College and Harris Academy
Bermondsey, are working with Southwark Playhouse to develop and rehearse a
full-length play on the theme of transition. Students have worked with a young
playwright, Molly Davis, to create a script that reflects their experience
of moving up from primary school. Students will act in the production, recruit
a technical team from amongst their peers, and have produced their own marketing
strategy. The play will be performed at Southwark Playhouse in June 2008 and
will tour to feeder primary schools, where the young actors will lead an after-show
question and answer session with Year 6 audiences.
Shakespeare for Schools: Take your class for free!
Every year, we present a Shakespeare play in the theatre and offer free tickets
to all Southwark and Lambeth schools. We also offer an education pack and
workshops in school as part of the package.
The next Shakespeare for Schools production is scheduled for February
2009. Keep checking the website for details of that production. If
you would like to find out more about the scheme, email
us here
Last year, we ran the Better Bankside Award for young theatre-makers
for the first time. The winners, Daniel Goldman and Donnacaidh O'Brain, directed
Richard III for our 2007 production.
One-off Projects
In addition to our regular schools work with EIP, we run one-off
and bespoke projects with schools. If you would like us to visit your school,
or want to find out more about our work, email
us here
These are our partner schools:
- Cherry Gardens School
- Eveline
Lowe Primary School
- Friars Primary Foundation School
- Goose Green Primary School
- Grange Primary School
- Highshore School
- Rye Oak Primary School
- Snowsfields Primary
School
- Southwark Park Primary School
- St. Joseph's Primary School
- St Peter's Primary School (Walworth)
- Geoffrey
Chaucer Technology College
- Harris Academy Bermondsey
- Charles
Dickens Primary School
- Victory Primary School
- Cathedral Primary
School
- St Jude's Primary School