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Winter Wishes from The Play House

A fantastic second day in rehearsals with Malcolm and Rupinder for Split Second today! It’s still not too late to book in a performance for your school over Jan and Feb!
Students support Sara and Coach with a difficult conversation, looking at knife crime, belonging and community! Whilst participating in a fun training session in the ring 🥊

Thank you Lea Forest Primary Academy for sharing these wonderful captures of Malcolm delivering The Romans in school this week! 🏛️🏺

What a fantastic 10 weeks at St Francis C of E school for our ‘Does Birmingham Belong to Me’ project funded by ❤️ Here are some snaps from rehearsals before their big sharing in school last week! The students not only explored the city they live in but also discovered a lot about each other and themselves. Parents, teachers and students were so pleased with their final sharing and we cannot wait to share their feedback and our evaluations. What an adventure! 🎭⭐️

A very festive dig at Lea Forest this morning with Malcolm, ready for the Romans! If you would like to book the Romans for your school please contact us on [email protected] 🏛️🏺

Ahh how exciting!?! The Playhouse are now recruiting an associate director/creative producer! 📣⭐️
Apply through our website before the deadline:
12pm on Fri 27th Dec 2024
www.theplayhouse.org.uk/opportunities

Another glimpse of The Gingerbread Man! The three bears porridge bubbling away! 🐻🥣

Join the Gingerbread Man on a magical adventure through familiar worlds with well known characters ✨📖 contact us today to book! [email protected]

The gingerbread man happily walking into a trap!

Make gingerbread cookies (for real!) with the baker in the classroom and then come to the school hall for a magical adventure like no other!

Follow the ginerbread man on a twisted journey through familiar storybook worlds and characters. Forever caught in traps left for the big bad wolf… what will happen to our tasty little friend?

Have you booked in your performance for the gingerbread man yet? Visit our website to take a look at our programme:
www.the playhouse.org.uk

Suitable for EYFS

I feel like we should do a Brummie one!

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Malcolm is prepped and ready to perform Resilience Quest today at Princethorpe for year 3 today! If you would like to book RQ in your school please feel free to contact us on [email protected] 📖

A few snaps of Rebecca preparing ‘The Moon People’ for our early years piece as part of our Paul Hamlyn funded project called ‘Does Birmingham Belong to Me?’ 🌛

The Gingerbread man is coming! An interactive storytelling adventure, where the students not only get a chance to eat the gingerbread man, but follow him through a trail of familiar traditional story realms 📖✨ book today!

Where are the students off to this morning with Malcolm? Want to book a storytelling adventure for your school? Visit our website and check out our programme! 📖✨

🚨 A massive THANK YOU alert 🚨

We simply could not do what we do without the support of the and we want to take this time say a MASSIVE, MASSIVE thank you ✨️

More updates coming soon about our projects 🎉

Do you work in a primary school in Birmingham? 👋

The Play House's 2024-2025 Touring School Pogramme is open for booking! 🗓

With over 30 years of experience in Theatre in Education, The Play House are so excited to bring back some old favorites as well as 2 shiny new programmes to tour around schools this year 📚

We focus on bringing creativity into learning, delivering participatory performance and workshops exploring aspects of the curriculum including STEM, History, PSHE and much, much more! 👩‍🏫

Get in touch with [email protected] ✨️ TODAY ✨️

How are we already in mid September? We had the best time working with Allens Croft Primary School and Montgomery Primary school last academic year for our ‘Does Birmingham Belong to Me’ project funded by 🤍 here is a snap of our practitioners Rebecca and Kali along with researcher Giada during our performance day in the summer. We are so excited to kick off this term with St Francis Primary School and Colmore Junior School. Watch this space for updates!

Malcolm has been busy prepping props and set ready for Romans and Jack and the Beanstalk. Have you booked in your performances yet? Check out our brochure for the academic year if you haven’t already by visiting our website!

Immy strutting her funky stuff preparing for storytelling in the woods at the CoCoMad festival on Saturday!

Our storytelling sessions are available to book for schools and other organisations. Check out our programme here for more information https://www.theplayhouse.org.uk/schoolbrochure2425