Drama-based training for teachers, and devising workshops for young people, on how to argue well about things that matter.
There will be disagreement. In the staffroom, in the classroom, in the playground and, before long, in the polling station.
Schools are about to be asked for more of this work. Citizenship becomes statutory in primary schools under the new national curriculum, published in spring 2027 and taught from September 2028. A national oracy framework is on its way. Ofsted now looks for enrichment with a civic engagement strand. And if votes at 16 becomes law, today’s Year 11s will be voters.
Anyone who has led a class discussion knows the three fears: it won’t start, it won’t stop, or it will turn personal. These sessions give teachers practical ways through all three, with games they can run on Monday morning.
The approach comes from more than twenty years of Theatre for Democracy work, including a six-year national programme with over 75 local authorities and the Electoral Commission, and fourteen years in higher education training facilitators to deliver this work.
Drama games for statutory primary citizenship, for teachers who have never taught it.
How to let students argue about real politics and stay inside impartiality guidance.
Four practical principles for discussions that won’t start, won’t stop, or turn personal.
Students choose a local issue and devise a short piece of political theatre about it.
Every session is delivered in your school, anywhere in the UK. Trusts and clusters booking together get group rates. Email me to talk about what would suit your staff or students.
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