·Planning and delivery of Drama Maker workshops for ArtForms Leeds. This involves implemeting creative strategies to aid literacy skills and help year 2 pupils to access their imaginations more readily. All sessions have been closely linked to the children's main programme of study, maintaining cross curricular continuity and so making the project sustainable long term.
·Cultural Awareness workshops, using story telling to explore heritage, tradition and inter-faith common behaviours with primary school pupils.
·Collaboration with Wagontrain to devise and deliver workshops for GMPA (Greater Manchester Police Authority) on Stop/Search and Straight to the Point. This involved working with groups of young people aged 11 to 18, in a variety of institutions, to raise awareness of their rights and to help them appreciate the inherent dangers of knife crime and carrying bladed articles.
·Facilitator for SKIPPKO Arts Organisation on Middleton Primary School Cluster Project. This project was designed to bring pupils from 4 Primary Schools together through a range of Artistic Practices. The focus was on diversity and heritage, offering the children an opportunity to celebrate their own traditions and take pride in the area in which they live.
·External practitioner for Creative Partnerships Change School Project. This is an ongoing project, combining Drama and Visual Arts to offer staff development sessions and enrichment opportunities for challenging students on an Alternative Curriculum at the Albion School, Salford.
·Coordinator of Next Generation Arts; a Leeds Jewish community project working towards an annual musical production for years 1 to 7. The backstage and creative team is made up of teenagers from within the community, offering them the chance to gain production experience, build leadership skills and become positive role models for the younger participants.
·Delivery of Drama workshops focusing on raising awareness of and exploring causes and effects of the issue of bullying for national anti-bullying week, Leeds primary schools. These packages are tailored to fit each year’s chosen area of focus (2009 – cyberbullying / 2010 – taking action together).
·Work with TiPP (Theatre in Prisons and Probation) to deliver a Drama enrichment programme to young offenders and juvenile offenders at HMYOI Hindley. These long running projects were process-centred and provided the youngsters with a safe space to explore issues most relevant to themselves. Examples of the work produced include a radio play aimed at deterring youngsters from theft and reckless driving and a performance about the dangers of drug and alcohol abuse.
·Course leader with TiPP for a 4-day team building project with juvenile offenders at HMYOI Hindley. Using a range of creative strategies, issues of anger management and conflict resolution can be addressed in a positive and constructive manner.
·Planning and delivery of Drama workshops addressing bullying and prejudice with year 5 and 6 pupils at Froebelian School Horsforth’s multicultural week. Using role play, Drama games and a carefully structured program, the participants are led to empathise with those on the receiving end of unfair discrimination. This results in an increased awareness of the importance of tolerance.
·Staff training workshops for LSU (Learning Support Unit) staff in Leeds. These sessions were designed to enable staff to use Drama as a way of reaching their most challenging pupil groups and overcoming some of their obstacles to learning. This makes Drama workshops sustainable beyond the duration of any educational project.
·Collaboration with a Dance Worker for the Bury Youth Arts Project. This involved planning and facilitating workshops geared towards devising a live outdoor promenade performance piece for the internationally acclaimed Garden of Delights Festival in Platt Fields Park, Manchester.
·Workshop leader for National Lottery Livewire Celebration held at the Corner House Cinema, Manchester. This was a creative fun day which culminated in the presentation of a piece of devised Theatre.
·Work with TiPP to plan and deliver weekly Drama workshops for prolific offenders as part of their probation order. These sessions offered the habitual offenders an arena in which to explore victim empathy using a variety of creative methods, meaning even the least articulate among them could engage on some level.
·Drama worker for Envision Theatre on projects planning and delivering story-telling workshops for hard of hearing and profoundly deaf children at KS1 & 2. These interactive workshops employed a range of verbal and non-verbal communication techniques, making them all-inclusive and non-discriminatory.
·Assistant on Drama workshops for schools at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds. These offered GCSE students with a Dramatic forum in which to explore their English Literature set texts. By lifting the characters off the page, the students can identify more clearly with the text, gaining a better understanding of how to analyse them in their written work.
·Free Drama workshop facilitator for adult male offenders in HMP Leeds, category B prison.