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Become a Community Role Player in Schools

Educational Drama Workshop Please sign up for our workshops here. Sunday 27 November 2011 to Sunday 6 May 2012 St Barnabas School, Quarry Road, Tunbridge Wells. 11am-5pm. These workshops are designed for teachers, parents, Claquers or anyone over 18 who are interested in educational drama teaching. These two workshops will explore how to teach any...

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Community Role Play

Mantle of the Expert

31 October 2011 - It’s a disappointment that, following her death, I’ve seen no reference to Dorothy Heathcote in the National press. On the other hand, it comes as no surprise, recognition, not for herself, but her ideas, was a battle she fought all her life. I’ve heard the intellectual traditionalists describe her as one...

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Tribute to Dorothy Heathcote

16 October 2011 – I have said before that you can’t use relative terms in describing good and bad teachers. It’s not as if they are even engaged in the same activity.  Bad teachers rob you of your abilities and confidence. Good teachers draw out your talents and encourage self belief. Then there are the select...

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Dorothy Heathcote

A Role Play Explained

18 May 2011 - During my recent rant about education I was preparing an application to Awards for All to develop Community Role Plays. I believe drama which has been systematically relegated to the bottom of the curriculum is a medium which should be at the centre of education as a medium for learning. Equally,...

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Leader of the Nore Mutiny Richard Parker is arrested