4 days into the first week back and we are all just about in the swing of things again and looking forwards to the lighter and warmer (hopefully!) spring term.
This year, as you probably know, is the anniversary of 100 years since the First World War began. To commemorate this and to present a great way of engaging today’s primary aged children with this important topic, Arty-Fact Theatre have devised a wonderful piece of theatre – The Time Capsule 1914. This tells the story of two modern days kids, who discover a hidden time capsule from 1914 and their adventures delving into its many mysteries and secrets: giving them an infomative and fascinating insight into life at that pivotal point in our history. We have made the show accessible from 4 years upwards to 11, with interaction, songs and the opportunity for each school to create a time capsule of their own.

Our current primary schools’ tour of the delightful Oscar Wilde children’s story – THE HAPPY PRINCE is having a great effect on staff and pupils this summer, particularly in the West Midlands! Have a read of these lovely words from Rokesby Primary School :

“Once again, a huge thank you and well done on another superb show. We had your amazing company today for The Happy Prince for a spellbinding performance. And what really nice people they were, friendly and so professional. I really can not praise you enough for the enterprise and innovation. You made one member of staff cry (which was very funny!) but it is a rather lovely story. Thank you so much for a wonderful morning that everyone enjoyed so much. Regards, Davis Allen. ”

If you are a school in the West Midlands, Devon, Cornwall or West Sussex this beautiful musical is coming your way soon.

If you’d like to liven up your school’s teaching of maths & numeracy we have the very thing! Our production for years 1 to 6 – ‘Mummy Mia’ will put all mathematical points across with humour, interaction and most importantly fun. The show is suitable for both mainstream and special schools. Here is a recent comments on the show: –

What a fantastic performance of ‘Mummy Mia’ yesterday (18.4.13) at The Court School. The highest accolade that I could offer is the fact that you totally engaged 35 children with severe social, emotional and behavioural difficulties, half of whom have ADHD diagnosis, for over an hour. They were transfixed by quality performances in an interactive presentation that encompassed a number of curricular areas. My staff (not the easiest to please!) were all highly complimentary of the best performance seen at The Court School in my eight years as Headmaster. Many thanks and best wishes for continued success with your South Wales tour.

Touring in beautiful South Wales at the moment and heading for Norfolk and Suffolk, Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire later in the summer term.

ANNOUNCING FOR SUMMER 2013 – LET’S EAT GRANDMA! – NEW INNOVATIVE PUNCTUATION & POETRY PRODUCTION FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS

Oh no! Is someone about to eat our lovely grandma?! Or is she just inviting us to lunch? Punctuation has never been so intriguing and so much fun. “Let’s eat grandma!”, or indeed “Let’s eat, Grandma ” brings famous characters, well-loved stories, fables and poetry into your school, with the central theme of playing around with punctuation.

Hold your breath… will Amy in year 3 selects the correct punctuation mark to help our modern-day Red Riding Hood character to complete her important journey? or Will William in year 1 know when to pick a capital letter? and is Saleem from year 6 brave enough to differentiate the colon from the semi-colon?

This already delicious play is made even more tasty because the big guys at Penguin Books have given us the rights, as our show is so top-notch,  to make wonderful use of the marvellous poetic works of none other than Mr. Roald Dahl and his “Revolting Rhymes”  which will feature throughout this scrumptious show.

All in all,  Let’s Eat Grandma is a refreshing,  new approach to teaching punctuation and for focusing on childrens’ poetry. Available throughout summer term 2013.

A teachers’ pack is included which is downloaded as an eBook. Each eBook contains information for teachers and pupils, questionnaires, quizzes, word games, suggested activities and much more.