Artist in Schools Scheme 2016_2017
October 25, 2016 by eryan3893
Our application for the 2016 Artist in Schools scheme has been successful!!! We will be welcoming the artist & storyteller Ruth Marshall into the Junior Room for an Arts Space residency totaling 30 hours! The programme is sponsored by the Clare County Council with the support of the Arts Council of Ireland and we are really excited to get started!
The title of our project is “From Socks to Strings: A creative exploration of where our imagination will take us through the world of storytelling, puppetry, and oral language”.
We aim to explore the world of storytelling to enhance the oral language experience of the junior class in our school. We hope to explore character profiles, model good story telling and allow the children to explore dramatic conventions and practice the structures and features of the narrative while engaging the more shy and reluctant speakers. We hope to give opportunities to use language to entertain, to support improvisational drama, spontaneous role play, tell experiences and experiment with new ideas and vocabulary. The project will also allow the children to explore puppet design and creating puppets for their characters, to bring their stories to life.
