Be My Baby, 2018
Our Youth Theatres are a great place to make friends, explore your creativity, and develop theatre-making skills with professional practitioners and artists.
Autumn: Week commencing 9th Nov – week ending 18th Dec (half term)
Spring: Week commencing 11th Jan – week ending 26th March (full term)
Youth Theatre 1 (school years 3&4 / age 7-9yrs): Tuesdays, 4.45 – 5.45pm, venue: NW2
Youth Theatre 2 (school years 5&6 / age 9-11yrs): Tuesdays, 6.30 – 7.45pm, venue: NW2
Youth Theatre 3 (school years 7&8 / age 11-13yrs): Mondays, 5 – 6.30pm, venue: HEG
Youth Theatre 4 (school years 9&10 / age 13 – 15yrs): Mondays, 7.15 – 8.45pm, venue: HEG
Senior Youth Theatre (school years 11 + (ages 15-20yrs)): Wednesdays, 7 – 9pm, venues: HEG & NW2
Prices given on a full term / half term basis. (The 6 weeks from Nov – Dec is the half term price. Please note: under normal circumstances, all Youth Theatre fees are paid on a full term basis).
Standard Plus: £75 / £40 (For those who can and wish to pay a little more per term, this rate will help us to provide bursary places for young people who would otherwise be unable to access a weekly group.)
Standard: £60 / £30
Second child: £40 / £20
Means-tested (Universal credit or a young person living independently): £30 / £15
Bursary (free) places are also available. Please contact us if you would like to discuss a Bursary place or have any questions or queries about Youth Theatre: RFitzgerald@wolseytheatre.co.uk
We know that some young people and some adults are anxious about taking part in any non-essential activity at the moment, so it’s important for us to say that the safety of our participants and staff is our number one priority.
The New Wolsey Theatre is operating as a Covid-secure venue and our Youth Theatres will be delivered in line with the most current government guidance. Our Covid-secure in brief can be found beneath the signature of this email. If you would like further information, you can view our policies and risk assessments for participatory work here.
New Wolsey Theatre Covid Secure in brief
New Wolsey Theatre (NWT), like all professional companies, has to have covid-19 policies in place to protect its staff and visitors. The government has put in guidelines to allow NWT to welcome audiences and participants back to its spaces. Our full Covid-19 protocol is available on request; however here are the steps we are putting in place to make sure everyone has a safe and enjoyable visit to NWT.
Rule of 6:
Professionally run training, education and out of school activities for young people are exempt from the government’s ‘rule of 6 law’. This is due to those organisations having to have verifiable covid-secure processes in place.
If you want to make new friends and learn about theatre by playing games and telling stories these weekly groups are a great place to start. Throughout the year, participants develop theatre making skills through imaginative play, and begin to find their own creative language.
If you want to explore your creativity and continue to develop your abilities as a performer, this weekly group gives you the chance to work with industry professionals to develop your skills and understanding as young theatre makers.
If you want to explore your creativity and continue to develop your abilities as a performer, this weekly group gives you the chance to work with industry professionals to develop your skills and understanding as young theatre makers.
If you’re a young person with a disability or additional need who wants to explore theatre making and develop your creativity, come and join us at these weekly sessions. Sessions will allow participants to explore the world around them, build their confidence and develop their theatre making skills.
Autumn: Week commencing 9th Nov – week ending 18th Dec
Spring: Week commencing 11th Jan – week ending 26th March
Monday evenings during term time
Group 1 (11-15yrs or higher level of need): 5.45pm – 7pm
Group 2 (16-25yrs or lower level of need): 7.45pm – 9.00pm
NW2, Civic Drive, Ipswich, IP1 2AS. This venue includes a changing places facility.
Termly cost: £50 / £30 if you’re in receipt of means-tested benefits / Assisted (£free) places are available, contact us to find out if you are eligible.
Groups are allocated loosely by age, but also take into consideration the level of need. We will have a conversation with each family/carer and place each participant in the group we feel they will benefit from the most.
There is no audition for this group, if you’d like to join please contact us: creativelearning@wolseytheatre.co.uk
Working with professionals from the theatre, young people will reconnect with learning and the National Curriculum; discover career pathways in the creative industries; develop essential life skills, and use their creativity to reflect upon their experience of lockdown, all in a safe, fun, supportive environment that is Covid-19 secure.
As one of the arts organisations that has worked with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation on their Teacher Development programme, we have been a part of a wide-ranging project that has successfully evidenced that young people’s learning can be dramatically enhanced by a practical, art-based approach to animating elements of the National Curriculum.
An ‘active learning’ approach has been shown to be especially effective at eroding disadvantage and supporting young people who might not have thrived in a conventional school environment to reach their potential.
Regardless of where your school is in its delivery plan for Science, Computing or Mental Wellbeing, our programme could recap, introduce or support the teaching of these elements of the National Curriculum.
We understand this is a period of uncertainty for the education sector, and we’d be happy to have a conversation about how we can be flexible with this work to engage with your school. Please contact either:
Rachel Fitzgerald, Creative Learning Manager: RFitzgerald@wolseytheatre.co.uk
Sian Thomas, Creative Learning Producer: SThomas@wolseytheatre.co.uk
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