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Well, just like that another year is complete! I hope you all have had a super successful 2018 and by successful I mean having ticked off whatever it is that brings you joy. My word for 2019 is authenticity as I often struggle to share all facets of me. For example I love dance-fitness, specifically

18th October 2017 ~ Key Stage 2 Drama session with DramEd: “Education is the most powerful tool you can use to change the World” Nelson Mandela. Today I played music from the South African Xhosa Tribe and asked the children to get into pairs and create a moving piece about whatever they felt inspired to

We’ve been slowly but surely creating content to share with you and the parents who have children who attend the nurseries we visit. We are rooting for your children. Every single one of them!

We have had a successful term of touring ‘Number Fun’ in nurseries. Number Fun is a brand new class developed to support nurseries in teaching early year’s math’s concepts. We are using music and math’s stories to support a weekly theme or topic such as shapes, 3D shapes, money, time, large numbers, counting in ones,

Today I had the pleasure of spending an afternoon with Miss Nessie at Pippa Poppins Nursery, teaching Drama to preschool children. It was a new experience for me as the nursery is extremely affluent. I thoroughly enjoyed my time there for a number of reasons. Ms. Nessie is so kind and very good at her

Today as a part of DramEd’s I Can Tell a Story – Storytelling Adventures, we were going to tell our own story in Cyber tots Copley Close! We warmed up our voices through our Caterpillar themed song which when sang well, brought out our big red and yellow fluffy caterpillar. Caterpillar Rhyme: Caterpillar, Caterpillar, Red

31st July 2018 – Number Fun I am really starting to feel confident and excited about the way DramEd is developing. Particularly Number Fun in nurseries. Number Fun is a programme which teaches preschooler’s math’s concepts through performing arts and play and I have been running it now since March. I tend to choose a theme,

Date: 11/01/2018 Wow! What a Story. I can’t actually believe we’ve grown up with this story, as a person of mixed ethnicity I am astounded about just how many versions of this story, talk about the duckling being ugly with brown feathers, and how at the end it turns into a beautiful swan. “Beautiful and

Date: 10th April 2017 I hope you’ve been having a fun filled Easter Break! As a mother of three boys who loves seeing their eyes light up and imaginations sparked, here are a few of our favourite places this half term. Place such as.. Bekonscot Model Village – Great for all ages! Wonder around this

I am excited to share that DramEd has recently engaged with a practice called Talk for Writing, developed by author, Pie Corbett and deputy Head of the National Literacy Trust, Julia Strong.  Together both Pie and Julia have developed a number of books which aim to teach, teachers, practitioners and families how to inspire reading, literacy

This month in our Story time, Move and Rhyme Sessions we complimented Nursery learning themes on Travel, Opposites, Winter and Christmas. Open Very Carefully a Book with a Bite, by Nicola O’Byrne, well I just can’t recommend it enough. Honestly, it was brilliant! It’s a well thought out book with a twist, which starts off