At Bigfoot we are extremely proud and privileged to have been a major contributor to the UK’s resurgence of creative education within mainstream schools.
Since 2000 Bigfoot has committed itself to providing high quality creative education to schools through the use of drama, theatre and performing arts based workshops, courses and interactive Forum-based performances.
Our repertoire now extends into music, dance, circus, yoga, visual art, filmmaking and other specialist forms of creative expression.
We have 5 key aims that guide us in our quest for excellence which are:
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To allow our students to learn and develop skills through creative expression, enabling them to question, take risks and make mistakes within a safe and fun environment
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To promote an understanding and appreciation of the arts to children, enabling them to feel connected to our rich cultural heritage and to encourage them to become key stakeholders in its future
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To produce a diverse range of performing arts and creative arts workshop programmes that support and enhance the National Curriculum and key government strategies for learning
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To create programmes which are inclusive, sustainable and far reaching, many of which are bespoke and tailored to schools specific needs
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To provide an excellent and unparalleled service to schools through the recruitment, training and ongoing development of our expert arts facilitators, or as we call them ‘Bigfooters’.
We work within Early Years, Primary, Secondary and post 16 education environments both during and out of school time and also run specialist performing arts courses throughout the school holidays.
We pride ourselves on developing respectful long-term relationships with teachers enabling our work to become embedded within the whole school.
“The Bigfooter ‘is’ the performance. It’s not just what they do in terms of the education they provide, but its the way in which they do it which makes them stand out from the crowd. Bigfooters know how to play. What would normally be a routine exercise becomes an engaging and memorable learning activity, captivating their audience and involving them completely in the creative learning process. We believe that these experiences are essential in every childs learning, because it breaks up the routine of daily lessons, it shakes things up, invigorates the senses and enables children to feel a connection to other styles of learning which can ignite sparks of talent and creativity that has been laying dormant. Children are often in their element when they are enjoying themselves, and the Bigfooter provides the appropriate learning environment to allow this to happen within a classroom setting.”
Karl Wozny, Founder, Bigfoot Arts Education