CLASSES & workshops

BUSINESS SUPPORT

WORKSHOPS & COURSES

EXAM CLASSES

TEFL & PUBLIC SPEAKING

ONLINE COURSES

• Public Speaking support for companies and individuals
• Bespoke workshops
• Team Building
• Role-play support

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Current: Speech & Public Speaking Coach for the Diocese of Norwich -  Testimonial 

Workshops, projects, courses and summer schools. 

WORKSHOPS

I offer bespoke workshops to support creative expression, interpretation, education and also, for the corporate sector, team building. 

For Example:

• Improvisation
• Voice 
• Script & Performance
• Home Education
• Drama & Performance
• National Curriculum - support
• Characterisation
• Speaking in Public
• Direction of performance projects

SOME EXAMPLES:

-Presentation/workshop in French to French Drama Tutors in Nice, France on NEA syllabus and also ideas on how to develop character.

-Parkfields Community School, Birmingham – Emotional Expression workshops for 120 students whose first  language is not English.

- Preparing drama workshops/performances for Norwich Cathedral Education Department. 

• Exploration of  the theme of ‘Sacred Space’. Clients: Junior School  students and also a Charity who provide social, leisure and learning opportunities to people with sensory, physical or learning disabilities.
• Performance workshop for GCSE students exploring the themes of Good v Evil and Peace v Conflict.  testimonial

 -Weekly drama class for the over 55’s. Development of communication skills through improvisation & performance.  Covered by BBC Radio. –  here

- Home Education - group drama sessions for home educated 4 to 12 year olds

-‘Our Strange Little Play’  - a look at the effects of social isolation caused by the computer age. Comedy of manners and quotes from Oscar Wilde to explore absurd behaviour traits in modern day living.  BBC Radio - here 

-Camera Lights Action  - Course for teenagers: screenwriting / acting for the screen & semiotics. From this, a short film called Silenced was produced in partnership with Cinema Plus and Tracy Island TV. Two teenage girls embark on an unexpected journey of self-discovery when their lives become entwined with Catherine McWilliam, a girl who suffered & died as a consequence of the suppression of Cromwell in 1644. Screened as part of the BBC young persons film festival and was also selected for screening at ‘The Showroom’ in Sheffield.  Click here to watch.

-Devisor & Dramatic Director of ‘Ten and a Half Hours Later’  - Screened at Cinema City, Norwich.  The film was born out of a 3 night, 10 ½ hour performance skills workshop called ‘Blank Canvas’.  Laban and characterisation skills were used to develop 7 complex characters.  A complete piece of theatre was created around these characters. This was then developed into a 'no budget' experimental film project about 7 strangers whose paths cross every day without any conscious awareness. It explores the complexities of perception & the conscious & the unconscious mind. Over a period of ten & a half hours their lives become inextricably linked.  Click hereto watch.

100% pass rate for Speech & Drama Examination Classes.   Disciplines such as:

• Public Speaking
• Interview Techniques
• English as an Additional Language
• Reading
• Acting
• Poetry & Prose
• Shakespeare

LEVEL 3 exams offer UCAS accreditation.

New Era Academy Exam Syllabus     /     LAMDA Exam Syllabus 

I am also an examiner for NEA

Examples of examination work

Reviews can be found on google or check out one or two below:

David Barclay

Alice Francis

Earl Ling

Sharon Grady

Chelsea Fincham

Teaching English as a Foreign Language using the discipline of Public Speaking.  I am a CELTA qualified teacher.

-Please get in touch with you enquiries - online support is available immediately.

Experience

• TEFL tutor
•  How to incorporate Drama into the Language Learning Process -  Participants - English Teachers from Italy, Germany and Poland. 
•  Parkfields Community School, Birmingham – Emotional Expression workshops for 120 students whose first  language is not English. 
• NHS support to native Chinese speaker 
• THE ENGLISH EXPERIENCE English Tutor / Drama Co-ordinator and Co-ordinator in various schools in Veneto, Italy Theatre –‘English Museum’, 10thanniversary event: San Guiliano Park, Venice. Devised, coordinated/directed 140 children/14 teachers. 

• Public Speaking - preparation and performance - UCAS examinations available.
• TEFL through Public Speaking
• English Speaking Skills
• Audition Preparation

Contact me for more information....