Primary School PPA Cover

✓ Bespoke programme

✓ Led by a professional West End performer

✓ A programme of dance and drama

✓ Available in London and surrounding areas

Bespoke creative projects based on your class topics

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Our Primary School PPA Cover offers high-quality drama and performing arts projects - based on each class’s current topic.

Every partner school’s programme is bespoke. Through a combination of drama, music and theatrical techniques, we develop the children’s confidence and communication skills as they explore the existing curriculum. West End in Schools helps schools to make the very best of PPA time with tangible outcomes.

Topic-based Projects

The arts projects we deliver with each class embrace and extend the topic their teachers are already teaching in the classroom.

Creative Conclusions

Each half term’s PPA Cover ends with a Creative Conclusion - often a performance to parents, or perhaps an assembly to other children. Together these give each class an ongoing focus and a sense of achievement each half term.

Projects are long enough to be in depth but change frequently, keeping the children engaged and focused. In each case we will arrange our work to match your needs.

Every project is highly relevant to the children and their learning. We begin with the current class topic, and by using drama to bring it to life we aid their engagement and their achievement back in the classroom.

We inspire children to explore fresh perspectives and feel more confident.

It’s easy for children to get a reputation for being a certain way in school – and those labels can be limiting and hard to shift. But hard to reach children can engage differently through drama.

Our topic based approach starts a virtuous circle, helping teachers generate higher attainment from that child in the classroom too.

Our professional drama facilitators bring a certain magic into the school as they help children to achieve greater understanding of their topic and of themselves. As trained actors they are uniquely qualified to teach enhanced speaking, listening and presentation skills which are useful for life.

Because they are experts in drama they can also advise and help with end of term shows - a popular topic for Year 6 at the end of the summer term.

Over the course of each project the children work towards a Creative Conclusion. This enables children to take ownership of topics through their PPA cover projects.

Past examples include a live performance of Romeo and Juliet to parents, an assembly to other children all about the Jungle, and a song and dance performance inspired by the school's local area.

Some Creative Conclusions are full blown performances, while others are opportunities to share the drama work the children have been doing with an audience.

We work incredibly closely with our partner schools and their class teachers.

Our aim is to jointly create something of great ongoing benefit to the school, built around the school's priorities and their children's needs and talents.

We know that each school and class is different. That is why we ensure that the creative projects that we deliver are uniquely designed and tailored based on conversations with the teachers, while being flexible around the timetable and available rooms.

West End in Schools adds real value to PPA time because we don’t just plug a gap – we contribute in a significant way to the educational and emotional development of the children we teach.

How to organise PPA cover for your school

1. A scheduled telephone meeting

A telephone conversation to discuss the basics, so that you can decide if the PPA Cover sounds right for your school.*

This gives you an opportunity to ask your most important questions, and see if our approach is a good fit.

We typically discuss:

number of classes, and their ages
your schedule and location, and whether there is a room where we could work with the children
any particular requirements of the school, e.g. performances
price

2. On site meeting

A visit to your school to discuss how PPA would work in more detail. We will share schemes of work we have previously delivered to give you a clear idea of how a typical half term would work.