Hopes and Futures

Age range: 6 - 6 | Price: Free | Activity by: Creative Futures
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About Project

This "child-led" project is themed around navigating growth and change and working with students to explore their feelings around the transition from primary to secondary school. Hopes and Futures is a spoken word project delivered by two specialist creative practitioners to students in Year 6 at Vaughan Primary School.

About the programme
Through the movement aspect of the project, students will explore how techniques and movement can enhance the performance and bring words to life. They will look at how intonation, tone, tempo, and volume, can be employed effectively to communicate meaning to the listener. Students will discover the use of personification in poetry, and look at how the use of facial expressions, body language, and actions can add even more to the performance.

Objectives

  • To develop the creative, expressive, and written abilities of students. Enable and encourage the students involved to lead the project in their preferred direction, and to create individual and/or group outputs which reflect their own individual and collective goals and aspirations.
  • Improve social skills and team-work. At the end of the project, students will be invited to co-design an anthology with artwork to complement their poems. They will receive a copy to take home which beautifully presents their work and provides parents/teachers with tangible keepsakes of their child’s primary school journey. Students should be left feeling inspired and well equipped to use the tool of spoken word as a creative outlet and potential lifelong passion.
  • To improve pupils’ confidence and public speaking skills. Students are encouraged to reflect on their biggest wins in year 6 and think back over their favourite memories from primary school, while also thinking forward to what they might be looking forward to in secondary school. As well as personal stories, Hopes and Futures explore broader themes of diversity, culture, and self-expression in order to deepen their sense of community and connection to Harrow.
  • To increase the number of students feeling a stronger connection to their community, cultural heritage, and identity. Through the movement aspect of the project, students will explore how techniques and movement can enhance the performance and bring words to life. They will look at how intonation, tone, tempo, and volume, can be employed effectively to communicate meaning to the listener. Students will discover the use of personification in poetry, and look at how the use of facial expressions, body language, and actions can add even more to the performance.

Sessions

  • 10 weeks; 30 workshops in total.
  • 3 x workshops of 45 mins each within a morning/afternoon at the school (one workshop with each of the 3 classes, every week).

We've worked with the following schools:

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Vaughan Primary School
Project availability

17/05/2023-12/07/2023

This activity stopped on 12/07/2023

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Target Young People
Cost Free
backpack-58 School year: 6 - 6
Available from - to 17/05/2023-12/07/2023

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Creative Futures

Creative Futures

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