INSET Training for Primary School TeachersCaboodle offers INSET training for Primary Schools in a wide range of creative and performing arts. The following workshops are currently available: ArtINSET days for Art are designed to address the needs of individual schools. Workshops can help you expand the range of projects on offer to your pupils and so greatly enhance their experience of art within your school.
We can also examine painting/drawing techniques; the use of different paints, pastels and crayons; or working with recycled materials etc. Call us to discuss your particular areas of concern, or techniques where you lack confidence. DanceThe INSET or staff training workshops are based on National Curriculum and Arts Council guidance on dance education. They identify key aspects of dance that need to be encouraged including:- acquiring and developing skills The sessions break down the National Curriculum guidelines for delivering dance to Key Stages 1-2 using the Compose, Perform, Appreciate model and repertoire based classes. Teachers are clearly led through developing their own structured lesson plans that upon completing the session they are able to reproduce. The session includes a practical workshop followed by theory, leaving teachers with increased confidence, a thorough understanding of how to deliver dance and practical tools with which to do so. DramaDrama is a powerful tool that can be utilised to support the curriculum within Primary Education at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2.By taking advantage of Caboodle's INSET training for primary schools, participants can gain confidence, improve literacy skills, enhance and develop creativity and imagination, improve interpersonal and social skills and gain a deeper understanding of issues, topics and emotions. It can also be a great springboard to access discussion and debate. PSHELearn many of the techniques from forum and image theatre. These workshops are based on the work of director Augusto Boal, who designed a style known as theatre of the oppressed.This work is a superb springboard to discussion and debate. It stimulates an exchange of opinion, is accessible and encourages co-operation and respect. Living HistoryIn this area, our INSET training for primary schools offers exercises, games and schemes of work to enhance history teaching.How did it feel to be a child who was evacuated during World War II? What would be experienced by a child in medieval England? Imagine plundering a village with the Vikings or spend some time in the court of Henry the VIIIth. There are many drama techniques and exercises which encourage empower children to explore history at first hand. LiteracyReading aloud with confidence. Using your voice to the best of your ability. Playing with words. Experimenting with pitch pause and pace. Understanding and interpreting text. Playing with emphasis. Physicalising text.During these workshops we share a range of vocal techniques and exercises that can be used in isolation or as a full class plan. Creative WritingWriting poetry and prose as a group or individually. Working with various drama-devise techniques and structures to stimulate imagination and develop creativity.Other training days can cover:
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Training workshops will focus on empowering teachers to work with a number of techniques such as papier mache, mud rock, self-hardening clay work and other forms of sculpture. 
