Primary Schools

Growtheatre has been a resident company in Primary schools for many years.

What we offer

We offer both ready-made curriculum-linked project ideas and love to develop bespoke projects that meet your school’s needs and are relevant to your curriculum. We work both inside and outside, provide tailored workshops, day-long events, arts weeks, and long-term residencies. We also provide innovative and supportive CPD sessions for teaching staff. Growtheatre is an Artsmark Partner and can support your school as you go for Artsmark. We are also able to deliver Arts Award at both Bronze and Silver levels.

With a combination of drama, education and Forest School skills, our offer is unique:

Creative practice, based in drama
Outdoor learning and Forest Schools (Artistic Director, Rachel Newman is Level 3 Forest School Practitioner. )
Curriculum Development

We have often built and developed relationships between schools and their communities by working with children and their families in school contexts.

To find out more, click on the case studies below or get in touch via our contact page.

Related Case Studies

Drama to Teach Life Skills

This project focused on using drama to teach and embed life skills. Each of the schools involved was given the opportunity to shape the project so that it fitted both their children and their curriculum needs.

Telling the Bees

An interactive cross curricular project including drama, design, creative writing, and 3D prototyping that looked at the future of bees in relation to climate change with Y5 pupils.

An Even Better Arbourthorne

A 4-year residency in the Arbourthorne Community facilitating teaching staff, parents and pupils to seek creative and lasting solutions to food poverty, low literacy levels, social isolation and the digital divide.

St Marie's Catholic Primary School, Sheffield

2-year Action Research residency, with a different focus in each year: Year 1 - drama and outdoor learning raising confidence and communication levels. Year 2 - Embedding creative, outdoor practice into the curriculum.

History on your Doorstep

Growtheatre specialises in using drama and Forest School approaches to bring outdoor green spaces to life, to teach KS1 and KS2 History - to help children make connections between local, regional, national and international history.