Tots CREATIVE DRAMA
Tots Creative Drama Drama encourages Confidence & Creativity through fun! Storytelling and structured imaginative play brings out the best in each child.
Dress-Up, Play, Act and Perform Today!!
Tots Creative Drama gives the students a chance to perform each week in a safe environment, encouraging them to share their ideas, build their confidence and experience performing through the fun, playful medium of creative drama.
Tots creative drama consists of improvisation games, imagination exercises and on occasion dressing up in our huge range of fancy dress costumes (from superheroes, to fairy tale princesses, to animals, to everyday characters) and acting out different fairy tales and stories. This encourages the creative expression of each child, while also building confidence and teaching them the basic creative skills in drama and acting.
Preschoolers: are our Twinkles and Sparkles and take a 45 minute lesson in Song, Dance and Creative Drama with an experienced teacher.
Junior Infants and Senior Infants are Tots at ITW. Each class is allocated a colour to make it easier to identify which group you are in!
Tots take a minimum of two 30 minute classes per week (though many take 3!) in dance, drama, ballet, and singing.
All Tots classes lay foundations in coordination, teamwork, self-expression, spatial awareness, music theory, voice production... oh, and FUN!
Junior Creative Drama
'Junior Creative Drama provides opportunities for children to learn as they discover, create, improvise and imagine’. Creativity, imagination, self-expression and confidence
A lively class filled with improvisation, role play, theatre games and creative thinking to inspire our students to make up characters, tell stories and explore their world using acting and performance activities. Every week the students create unique situations, role plays and scenes. They are encouraged to work as a team and be expressive in voice, face, and body language. Life is mirrored through play, giving children the tools to deal with real- life social and school situations. Language and vocabulary are developed and shy or withdrawn children are encouraged to blossom.
What to wear: Black leggings or tracksuit bottoms, ITW t-shirt and Zoodie. Omnia Dance Sneakers(or similar with non marking sole) or black jazz or ballet shoes. ITW t-shirts, leggings and sweatshirts can be ordered from the ITW SHOP online and will be delivered to ITW Studios for collection at class. Long hair should be tied up in a ponytail and footwear must have non marking soles.
Our Junior students should ideally take Junior Dance Class along with their Creative Drama class. We also recommend that our Junior Students add a Speech & Drama exam class or Singing class to their weekly schedule.
10 reasons your child should do Creative Drama:
1. DRAMA BUILDS CONFIDENCE
Even the shyest of children take just a few weeks to gently build up their self - esteem until before long they are confident to take a full and active part in sessions - a few weeks is all it takes.
2. DRAMA HELPS CONCENTRATION
In every session children are encouraged to listen to each other's ideas and thoughts, and to take turns. These activities allow children to recognise the value of concentration; a skill that is vital in the world outside their home.
3. DRAMA HELPS DEVELOP LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Learning new songs, playing new games and participating in pretend play (when children must take on the language of the role they are playing) all contribute to a child's developing vocabulary. They are encouraged to express themselves both verbally and through facial expressions and body language which is key to making them better and more effective communicators.
4. CREATIVE DRAMA ENCOURAGES CHILDREN TO CO-OPERATE
Every activity in Creative Drama, from playing drama games to improvisation to acting together, requires co-operation. Children quickly realise that in order to get the best out of sessions, co-operation is a much needed skill!
5. DRAMA SUPPORTS NUMERACY SKILLS
In Drama class children don't ever guess they are learning along the way – dividing up into pairs or groups for an activity, counting the number of stars on a camping trip or working out how many eggs to put in a cake, are just a few examples of how being involved in a drama can help to develop important numeracy skills.
6. CREATIVE DRAMA HELPS CHILDREN TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD AROUND THEM
We explore a range of different themes and introduce children to different real and imaginary situations each week, sparking their interest in the world in which they live and making them more inquisitive (and therefore more interesting!) little people.
7. DRAMA DEVELOPS EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
By encouraging children to 'act out' a range of emotions in the safe and supportive environment of a Creative Drama class, children are better able to understand their emotions and develop empathy with others.
8. CREATIVE DRAMA ASSISTS PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT
In each session we pretend to be different characters and creatures, create simple movement sequences and play drama games - all designed to help children gain mastery over their own growing bodies.
9. DRAMA DEVELOPS CREATIVITY
Creative people are able to view things in new ways and from different perspectives, to think on their feet and generate new ideas - this is a vital life skill. Our child led approach to improvisation and pretend play encourages the development of creativity as children lead the direction of the drama themselves, come up with solutions to problems in role, and respond imaginatively to a range of pretend situations.
10. ALL DRAMA NURTURES FRIENDSHIPS
By its very nature drama has the ability to create strong friendships between children as they laugh, learn and grow together week after week after week!