Billy BoohooMask & Physical Theatre dual facilitated performance and workshops This hugely successful dual facilitated masked performance assembly follows the problems of a young boy called Billy who is bullied within his new school.
Billy hopes to make friends by joining the running team. Unfortunately he proves faster than the school bully who, with the help of a friend, turns on Billy and physically bullies him. Billy becomes withdrawn and absconds from school, but a chance meeting with an elderly gentleman in the park begins to change his outlook. The old man encourages Billy to talk to a teacher and, on returning home and discovering his Head Teacher has called to find out what is wrong, he decides to open up and seek help.
By working together with his teachers Billy is enabled, not only to help himself, but to become involved in anti-bullying movement within the school. Billy Boohoo aims to encourage pupils to work together in a proactive fashion to overcome bullying, empowering them to find solutions with the support of parents and teaching staff. WorkshopsFollow on workshops will explore the issues raised by the performance and provide a stimulus for further work within school. Workshops are dual facilitated, offering the possibility of an intense pupil experience and of a level of pupil interactivity.Suitable for: Key Stage 1 & 2. Please note there is an element of stimulated violence. However, this is performed with sensitivity, an item of clothing being used to represent the child being bullied. Curriculum: This piece supports the Citizenship and PSJE curricula. It can also be used to support the English curriculum as a vehicle for the development of pupil ability to research and debate these vitally important issues, as well as providing an exercise for practicing persuasive literature. Return from
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