A highly successful year of school visits finished with a showcase at Camerton Primary School when pupils who had worked with Next Stage actors for 6 weeks presented the best of their work to the rest of the school. Pupils demonstrated skills in mime, improvisation, music, movement, spoken word, mask work and shadow puppetry. See pictures. The Camerton workshops along with many of the other primary school visits throughout 2007, organised as part of Next Stage's BARK (Bringing Arts to Rural Kids) initiative had been made possible by a generous grant from Quartet Local Network Fund for Children and Young People.

 

2008 has started with the Next Stage Team working with year 5's at Marshfield's Primary School on a brand new 6-week project: Living In The Mountains. In February the team will be launching another new workshop: Mind Your P's and Q's. In April, Next Stage actors are looking forward to returning to High Littleton Primary when they will facilitate another series of new workshops, this time based on the painting The Snail by Matisse.

 

Don't forget, if you want to make use of the highly experienced Next Stage Team to enliven and enrich the curriculum or to bring workshops on social and life skills to your school, (see Friend Not Foe pictures taken during a workshop at St Julians' Primary School, Wellow) contact Ann Garner on 01225 428600 or e-mail nextstagebath@aol.com