Clyde Waterfront Education

Street theare in Merchant City

Clyde street theatre project

Learners will work in groups in order to create a piece of street theatre entertainment whilst considering  the theatre arts needed to make it interesting and exciting for audience of their choice e.g. senior citizens, primary or pre 5 groups, local event or tourism opportunity.

Broad Outcomes of learning

• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced, e.g. experimenting with the media and processes of drama, using and adapting language suitable to the context, cooperating and communicating with others in a variety of drama activities
• Enterprising skills improved by developing creativity, confidence, a positive attitude and consideration of others through group work and discussion
• Developed employability skills: communication, organisation, researching, co-operating, contributing, presenting
• Confidence of working independently from teacher-led sessions demonstrated by the learners ability to work in groups in order to create the drama and the pupils evaluation of the work and the process
• Pupils take responsibility for their learning through making decisions about their research and the content of the final performance.
• Learners have developed the four capacities of a Curriculum for Excellence

Relevance to curriculum

• Supports CfE Drama

About this lesson/project idea

Theme Curricular area Age group
Arts and culture Expressive Arts Upper Primary;
Lower Secondary
Lesson/project focus Interdisciplinary Learning Opportunities Cross cutting themes
Entertaining an audience Expressive Arts;
Health and Wellbeing;
Languages;
Social Studies
CfE;
Citizenship;
EiE