Franchise Areas (Workshop Programme)

This programme uses the well known fairy tale characters of either Jack from Jack and the Beanstalk OR Cinderella as a stimulus for exploring storytelling and creative writing. Selected class groups will participate in interactive workshops, during which a variety of drama skills and techniques such as tableaux, hot-seating, devising, improvisation and forum theatre are used to encourage students to take risks with their imaginations and, ultimately, have confidence in their own ideas and abilities.

In order to ensure that the programme is as beneficial as possible, workshops will focus on one of the following objectives:

• Description and Settings
• Story Structure
• Alternative Endings
• Character Development

Although the same story (Jack and the Beanstalk or Cinderella) must be chosen for all workshops, different objectives can be chosen for each workshop throughout the day.

The groups may also have the opportunity to share the work they have created in their sessions with each other and / or the rest of the school during a ‘sharing session’ at the end of the day. Please note that this programme is also accompanied by a CD ROM resource pack.

Contact your nearest Bigfoot office more information about the programmes running
in your area.