MUD PIE ARTS
Participation Workshops
Speak Up, Speak out!
Role Play Days
Empowering, energising and motivating pupils
through the creative power of drama.
Role play is an active way of learning that develops essential skills in oracy, communication, negotiation, team work, empathy and resilience.
It can lead to quality writing, art and other responses.
Every child can contribute. Every child can have fun.
It is a rich learning experience that stays with them, for a very long time.
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Role Play Days
Key Stage One
Half Days
The Rainforest Rescuers
Suitable for KS1
Half day = £120 x 1 class
Whole day = £200 x 2 classes
Your class be trained up to work at the Orang-utan Rescue Centre in Sumatra. They will learn all about this great ape's fascinating behaviour and how they relate to other animals in the rainforest.
They will find out about the pressures on the forest from human activities.
They will set off to rescue an orang-utan orphan. Along the way they will have to cross a palm oil plantation and negotiate with loggers.
Can they take the orphaned orang-utan back to safety and bring it up to survive in the rainforest?
Meet the Author of
Cloud Tales
Suitable for Year 1 - Year 4
Half day = £120 x 1 class
Whole day = £200 x 2 classes
Each class receives a free book!
'Do you know, when clouds make merry shapes, they are actually telling tales to each other? It's true! There is nothing they like better. Cloud spotters like me, love to catch these stories as they float by.
There is just one problem; as clouds have a habit of drifting off, their tales just trail away, before the story is finished.
Perhaps you can invent an ending for each of these tales.'
What can be done about the Welsh dragon with a huge appetite for sheep?
How can Duggie Dog teach thieving Thelma a lesson?
Can you find a happily ever after for Marshmallow Madam?
And just how far will Hilda and Heidi go to claim the crown 'King of the Mountain'?
YOU DECIDE!
Jenna will perform from her book. Your class will then work together to invent and dramatise a wonderful ending to their Cloud Tale, taking on roles in the story.
Along the way Jenna will discuss her top tips for story structure, character, description and tension, to make a cracking yarn.
Your class will be able to ask a real life author any questions on the writing and publishing process.
Park Grove Academy said:
'My class absolutely loved the Cloud Tales session and were all very much engaged. I saw some of the more 'shy' children come out of their shell and also some of the less academic pupils showed a greater confidence, in an environment they could shine in.'
Will Gardiner - Year 1/2 teacher.
Life of a Honey Bee
Suitable for EYFS and KS1
Half day = £120 x 1 class
Whole day = £200 x 2 classes
Your class will become a colony of honey bees. First they must hatch from their wax cell.
They will all be given a role in the hive. They will work together for the good of all. Some will attend to the queen, some will raise a new brood. Some will forage, some will build, some with keep the hive clean.
But, oh no! Some of the bees are falling ill! What is happening? Can the bees find out where the danger is coming from?
The children will learn about plight of bees today and how the humans can help.
They will also taste honey and find out about the wonderful ways it can be good for us.
Survive Plague and Fire with Mrs Pepys!
Suitable for Years 1- 4
Half day = £120 x 1 class
Whole day = £200 x 2 classes
Your class will meet the enthusiastic Elizabeth Pepys. She will share the story of her life with her famous husband Samuel and tell of his funny ways!
Your class will take on the role of local Londoners living through the plague. Who will survive? It is a game of chance!
Mrs Pepys will then invite the children to enact the fateful days of the Great Fire of London, make choices about what to save and demonstrate why the fire spread so quickly.
Your class will have the opportunity to tell Mrs Pepys how much safer modern life is, with our NHS and emergency services standing by to help us.
'We had a great morning with Mrs Pepys...Thank you @Mudpiearts for a brilliant experience.'
A tweet from Lord Deramore Primary School.
Be a Nightingale Nurse!
Suitable for Years 1-4
Half Day = £120 x 1 class
Whole Day = £200 x 2 classes
Your class will meet Florence Nightingale and hear her remarkable story.
They will then take part in a Scutari hospital role-play, choosing to either train as a nurse or become a wounded soldier with a tale to tell.
Everyone will learn about Nightingale's reforms in nursing care and her influence on health reforms worldwide.
They will also find out about the remarkable determination of Jamaican nurse, Mary Seacole.
Let Florence inspire each child in your class to search for their true passion in life!
We Are Storymakers!
Suitable for Years 1- 4
Half Day = £120 x 1 class
Whole Day = £200 x 2 classes
Your class will listen to the nonsense poem 'The Jumblies' by Edward Lear.
'Their heads are green and their hands are blue
And they went to sea in a seive.'
Next, they will jump into the Jumblie world and go on their own adventure to that 'Land all covered with trees.'
They will set up camp, then go exploring in teams, to discover the Lakes, and find out just what is in the Chankley Hills.
But dare anyone enter the 'Torrible Zone'?!
After twenty years they will return with tall tales of their time away from home.
Your class will make a marvellous map of their expedition and become true storymakers!
