Roleplay is vital in child development and helps to develop essential soft skills, including:

• Communication skills
• Team building and social interaction skills
• Self confidence
• Creativity
• Problem solving and assertiveness skills
• Positive attitude and approach to life
• Flow of language

• Explore emotions and understand how emotions affect decision making
• Learn to understand how people convey emotions through body language
• Increase empathy and understanding of other people
• Increase self-awareness

The main aim of the Helen O’Grady Drama programme is the self-development of children through the medium of drama. It encompasses an exciting, carefully crafted curriculum and allows children to develop ongoing confidence and verbal communication skills: the vital life skills young people need in an ever changing world.

Every child is unique at the Helen O’Grady Drama Academy. All students are treated equally and given the opportunity to shine, regardless of their level of confidence or ability.

With a focus on personalization, each teacher at the Academy seeks to gradually integrate their students within the group until they are fully immersed in the fun classroom environment and unaware of any inhibitions they may have had before joining the class.

Through the Helen O’Grady Drama programme, children begin to understand the importance of the spoken word and also body language. Among other things in class, they improvise plays, create stories, develop characters and work with scripted pieces: all this while making new friends and having fun! This creative method of teaching facilitates in meeting the individual needs of students, fostering their creativity and inspiring confidence and a commitment to learning.

The Helen O’Grady Drama Academy is a well-established organization with classes in over 40 countries around the world. Here are some of the reasons our company is so well known:

• Established internationally for 40 years, with over 100,000 students worldwide
• Classes operating throughout the UK for over 25 years – in Pakistan for over 5 years.
• Formatted and professional curriculum delivered in every lesson
• Enthusiastic and dedicated staff receive ongoing training and support.

This programme has been created to inspire, enrich and teach young people how to develop their communication skills. The topics classes explore and work on include the following:

• Introductory / Warm up activities
• Speech Skills
• Creative Movement
• Improvisations and character building</span
• Team building skills
• Establishing and maintaining eye contact

These classes comprise of 32 sessions, one session per week, one hour per session, and concluding in a Production presentation for parents and whole school.

This programme has been designed to appeal to children from 4 ½ years to 5 ½ years of age, with weekly lessons that last for 45 minutes. It includes

• Dramatic play
• Creative Movement
• Language Development
• Story Telling
• Songs and Rhymes

If you would like to add Developmental drama classes to the list of clubs your school provides, we can help!

• Our classes are taught by enthusiastic and experienced professionals trained to teach our specialist curriculum
• We bring everything we need for the class
• The children are awarded with achievement certificates for their work in the class
• At the school’s request, each term ends with an assembly demonstration/parent presentation of the students work from that term.

As we return to schools and normal life, we offer the ‘Resilience and Wellbeing Programme’.
This programme is designed to develop students’ wellbeing, friendships, and emotions through fun theatre
workshops. We anticipate this will be extremely beneficial to children at this time of COVID, as a fun and
engaging way of boosting self-esteem and social interaction skills.
The course covers the following topics:

• Feelings
• Being a good friend
• Taking care of ourselves
• And communication and teamwork.

Emphasis on English vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms, idioms, phrases is an addition to each segment. A
new technique ‘the EMOTION COLLAGE’ hones emotional intelligence in these classes.

Through our Training and Adult Development programme, we also provide communication training workshops for teachers. Please contact our office for more information or for tailor-made training courses for your staff.

Give all of your students access to drama with our Free Drama Workshop Sessions. These sessions usually run for 30 minutes and are a great introduction to Drama for children of all ages. Subject to availability. Please contact our office to book.

Children are introduced to our unique world of wonder and imagination for one hour, to empower them with CONFIDENCE, SELF-ESTEEM and effective SOCIAL and COMMUNICATION SKILLS.

• Intro Activities: Our lessons begin with warm up activities designed to include participants physically and verbally, to encourage interaction with each other and to effectively display different emotions with ad-lib, facial expressions and body language.
• Speech and Language Development: Given that our voice is the most frequently used tool in communication, our speaking and language skills need to be developed from an early age. Voice projection, articulation, jaw exercises all focus on difficult areas of pronunciation, helping ensure clarity and effective expression.
• Movement and Mime to Music: Much of our communication is nonverbal, so this segment uses movement and mime to develop an awareness of the coordinated interaction of body, time and space. Children love to use these newly learned techniques to effectively convey their message.
• Improvisation: Improvisation is the main part of our lesson, where children are encouraged to analyse, understand and find appropriate things that fit in with what is needed. Our high energy classes give children this invaluable ability. Working in groups or as a whole class also encourages cooperation and team work – besides creativity -key components of the 21st century skill-set for achieving success.
• Concluding Activity: To retain the high energy levels, each class ends with an exciting Concluding Activity.
• End of year show: At the end of the program, A Grand Performance held to showcase recently discovered talent and to display newly acquired presentation and public speaking skills.