Christmas drama workshops
✓ Reception - Year 6
✓ Led by a professional drama facilitator
✓ Christmas, Literacy
✓ Delivered in your school hall
Join Scrooge in a workshop based on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, or listen out for St. Nicholas with The Night Before Christmas
Bring the Christmas spirit into your primary school with a drama workshop exploring a classic Christmas tale. Choose between A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens or the classic festive poem The Night Before Christmas.
These Story Explorer workshops use drama to explore the characters and stories of your chosen tale. Join Scrooge on his adventures through Victorian London and experience his encounters with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future; or creep through the house as silent as a mouse on The Night Before Christmas.
The workshops are run class-by-class as children from Reception to Year 6 work alongside an expert drama facilitator. Using drama techniques drawn from professional theatre, they will become immersed in the story’s world as they inhabit the characters, recreate the setting, and explore the themes of the tale.
Created by:
Abigail Rosser and Alistair Hoyle
Find out more about our creatives.
A Christmas Carol
Explore Charles Dickens' classic tale of Scrooge and his encounters with the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future in Victorian London. Will Scrooge change his miserly ways, or is he doomed to a future of gloom and ‘bah humbug’ forever?
The Night Before Christmas
The much-loved poem that explores the excitement and magic of Christmas Eve, with a visit from St. Nicholas and his team of reindeers.
To accompany the workshop based on A Christmas Carol, we are also offering a digital pack of theatre-inspired collaborative projects to extend the learning around the classic text before and after the workshop.
Created by professional theatre-makers, each project within the pack uses a different theatrical element, such as design, sound, song or drama, to provide a springboard for creative writing in the classroom. For more information visit our dedicated Inspiring Writing Toolkit webpage.
- We work with children in their usual classes.
- Sessions are 35 - 40 minutes for Reception, 35 - 60 minutes for KS1 or 40 - 90 minutes for KS2.
- We can work with up to six classes per day.
- To work with fewer classes we can visit for just an afternoon or morning session.
- To work with more than seven classes we can visit across multiple days.
- We will send you a suggested timetable when you enquire and we can work with you to create a timetable that works for your school day.
- To think critically about the story and empathise with the characters by experiencing it first-hand.
- To explore different ways of communicating, both verbally and physically.
- To develop creative ownership and the imagination by working alongside a professional actor-facilitator.
- Older students also have the opportunity for debate and discussion on the morality of the story.
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