Thurrock Trailblazer Cultural Catalogue 2019-20

PUNCHDRUNK
KS1
KS2
A SMALL TALE
Punchdrunk is an award-winning international theatre company with a reputation for groundbreaking
productions that blend classic texts, physical performance and design installation in
unexpected sites.
Since 2008, Punchdrunk Enrichment has delivered magical projects with over 100 primary
schools, taking Punchdrunk’s immersive ethos and high production values into school settings,
creating experiences to inspire and ignite pupils’ imaginations and accelerate learning.
“This project was brilliant. My colleagues and I were so excited about
teaching the lessons, and the resources that were provided were
outstanding! It was a pleasure to teach and reminded me why I became
a teacher”
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Trapped inside the pages of a dusty old book,
two tiny people are itching for adventure. If
you find a book mysteriously moved or fallen
from the shelves of your local library, you might
wonder if they are near…
A Small Tale: A Teacher-Led Adventure is a
Punchdrunk Enrichment project, led by the
teacher in the classroom. Intrigue begins as
you and your class read a mysterious old
picture book about two mischievous and
messy tiny people with a love of stories. But
when you return to the book the following day,
you find that their adventures have become
surprisingly real. The book’s pages are all
blank, except for two sets of tiny footprints…
and you discover that the small characters
have escaped. Will the pupils be able to get
them back to safety, before it’s too late?
Your class will be tasked with tracing their
movements around the school, discovering
sock sleeping bags, stolen pencils and tiny tipis
in trees where they have camped out. The only
way to return the characters to the safety of
the book’s pages is to write them a story - and
time is pressing as they are in danger out in the
world of big people.
A Small Tale: A Teacher-Led Adventure aims
to inspire and develop imaginative teaching
practices for literacy; placing the teacher at the
centre of the creativity.
SUITABILITY
One teacher and their class.
(or several classes within a year group if
delivered simultaneously).
Suitable for Years 1 - 4.
DATES, LOCATION & FORMAT
This project follows a CPD on Monday 11
November 2019, 10:00–16:00 at High House
Production Park, Purfleet.
Then six literacy lessons (over a period of 6
days – 2 weeks) in the Autumn term 2019 or
Spring term 2020, scheduled and led by the
teacher in school.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
The project aims to ignite and inspire students’
passion and motivation for writing whilst raising
standards in reading, speaking and
listening.
CROSS-CURRICULAR LINKS
A Small Tale: A Teacher-Led Adventure focuses
on writing and storytelling to develop students’
literacy, oracy, and vocabulary.
The CPD day for the project will also provide
opportunities to use Punchdrunk Enrichment’s
creative principles and ideas to plan exciting
learning experiences for your students across a
range of curriculum areas. The themes of
projects developed in the past in this session
by teachers have included recycling and
anti-bullying – the focus could be history,
geography, PSHCE, art, or even maths.
TEACHER COMMITMENT & TRAINING
• Attendance at initial CPD
• Delivery of project in school across 6
literacy lessons.
• Completion of project evaluation
WHAT HAPPENS AT THE END?
The children’s stories successfully entice the
characters back to the safety of their book,
with tiny footprints left all over them to prove
the pair have read them thoroughly. You and
your class have one final task, to return the
book to its original owner…
You will be able to develop your own future
projects inspired by A Small Tale across a
range of curriculum areas at our CPD day.
OTHER RESOURCES & SUPPORT
• Detailed teacher instruction pack.
• Toolkit of handmade props and materials
for simple design installations.
• A day by day plan for 6 literacy lessons.
COSTS
£300 per school
(with an option for additional teachers to join
the CPD for an extra £200 per teacher)
RECOMMENDED
This offer could complement the following:
• Thurrock Libraries: Kids Lit Quiz
• EES for Schools: Storytelling Bookbus
• RSC: Matilda Literacy CPD
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