Konflux Theatre Blog

Konflux Theatre’s Play in a Day for Key Stage 1 children The Great Fire of London is once again booking up for both the autumn and the spring term. Not only does this project re-tell the story, but it also examines it’s legacy and allows for comparisons to be made between the two eras.

Our Leeds schools are booking for the autumn term, whereas our Sunderland schools are booking straight into the spring term.

Another new project for 2010/11 for Key Stage 1 pupils, is a brand new Play in a Day on Florence Nightingale. We expect this to be as popular as The Great Fire of London workshop.

Konflux Theatre is pleased to be delivering our new Play in a Day workshop Water, Water – Everywhere! with schools across the country to tie in with Water Saving Week 2010, which is tkaing place from 12th – 18th June.

Water Saving Week logo

Another recently developed project ready to go on Monday, is our new ARC (Actively Reducing Crime) Play in a Day which we have developed with Nottingham Galleries of Justice. This is being deliered in collaboration with St Ann’s & Sneighton EIP in Nottingham.

This new Play in a Day script “Talk to Me”  for year 4,5, & 6 explores the following issues: Gangs and why people join them; weapons, peer pressure and making own choices; crime and how it affects the community.

"Talk to Me" aims to make young people aware about choices that will ensure this guy will never turn up unexpectedly

 ”Talk to Me” will be delivered in a way that brings awareness to serious factors affecting our country at present and will plant a positive seed to keep children in this country on the right track. For more details contact the office on 01904 611 355.

Our new Play in a Day workshop “All Change” is proving to be just as popular with secondary schools  as in primary. Secondary schools are booking on or around the date of their transition day.

In secondary schools we are delivering the full day’s participatory workshop with a group of year 7 or 8 students either on or around the transition date. Those students would then perform back to ALL the year 6’s from the feeder primaries coming up to the school either to begin the transition day – or to round it off nicely.

Scared year 6 pupil

We all know that there will be common fears and apprehensions felt by many of teh children moving up to big school – so tis workshop is a fantastic way of addressing those issue – and by having a year 7 or 8 group perform….. it is also a lovely introduction between those students and the new year 7’s to be.

As many transition day’s are scheduled around the same time…  the July calander is already looking very full! Konflux’s workshop leader’s are going to have a very busy summer term!!

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Our brand new Play in a Day workshop on TRANSITION is just about ready to go! Following the success of our Aimhigher Play in a Day workshop, this new workshop has been developed in collaboration with Connexions – Key Stage 2 Career Related Learning. 

Connexions - Key Stage 2 Career Related Learning

This new Play in a Day “All Change”, focuesses on raising aspirations; ambition and is an introduction to their new life in secondary school. This workshop is an attempt to break down structural unemployment that we see so regularly across the United Kingdom, and aims to plant a positive seed about these children’s futures earlier on in life. The workshop also explores further and higher education – and ultimately the world of work.

World of Work

This workshop is already proving to be extremely popular with schools, Aimhigher organisations and local authorities across the country – making life VERY busy for our workshop leaders… and of course for us in the office!

Konflux Theatre would like to welcome the newest member of the team – Rosie Green. Rosie has taken over all admin work and will coordinate all of our workshops from the office, between the schools and our workshop leaders.

Welcome to the team Rosie!! Well done on your first week

Super Fred: The Star of the Show!

 The childern who participated in yesterday’s workshop were fantastic… and the parents were left giggling throughout the performance at the end of the day.

Super Fred  ties in perfectly with the KS1 science unit Health & Growth and is often booked by schools as it ticks boxes that can contribute to a Healthy Schools Award.

Happy New Year and welcome to the Konflux Theatre blog!

This is our brand new blog and we will be using it to share  all of our projects, old and new, with the world!

2009 proved to be a very busy year at the Konflux office, with many new schools and organisations across the UK embracing the Play in a Day phenonemon for their pupils! A highlight for us was engaging with many new schools in Scotland, with our brand new Play in a Day on The Life & Times of Robert Burns. We had various new bookings from schools and local authorities across Scotland who have used the new project as a way of celebrating Homecoming Scotland, and the man himself.

We have lots of new and exciting projects in the pipeline for 2010, including an environmental workshop developed in collaboration with Severn Trent Water, which will be touring across the spring term, in the Midlands. Also, a brand new workshop for year 5 & 6 pupils based around transition, the world of work and further education, developed with Connexions for Key Stage 2, Work Related Learning. We are particularly excited about this new project which will be piloting in our home-town of York.

So, lots to look forward to and we promise to keep all our friends updated with regular blog posts throughout the year: please subscribe today!

Until next time, wishing you all a very Happy New Year!