Primary School Tie Tour is a Huge Success
This week, a very merry band of Third Year pupils spent their lunchtimes touring round local primary schools with their Theatre in Education production on neurodiversity.
Aimed at Years 4 and 5, the cast were wonderfully engaging, educational and professional, teaching the primary school children about four key types of neurodiversity: dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD and Autism in an accessible and high energy format, focusing on these as superpowers not just challenges. Based around a ‘school day’, the piece included rapping, singing, dancing and a very catchy hashtag: Zest4Life! We even had Dr Richard Evans supporting one of the performances, and felt he summed up how empowering these projects are for both the pupils in it and the audience: ‘When I left the Prep School this afternoon, I thought, “I wish I’d been able to take part in Theatre In Education or something like it when I was at school.”’ The cast will be performing this again at the Orchard Theatre Festival on Thursday 27 June if you’d like to see it live!
