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Jigsaw Performing Arts Schools offer drama, singing and dance classes for children aged 3-18 across London, the Home Counties, in Cardiff and Oxford. Our classes are an excellent way to build confidence and social skills and are a huge amount of fun. With three terms throughout the year: spring, summer and autumn, there are plenty of opportunities for students to take to the stage with us. Students at Jigsaw are divided into age appropriate groups, ensuring that they receive the right level of focus and attention in drama, singing and dance. Our Little Ones are split into classes of 3-4 years and 5-6 years and take part in 90 minute sessions with a specialist performing arts tutor. Main School sessions are three hours in length and students are split into age groups of 7-8, 9-11 and 12+.

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Our holiday drama camps offer fun and creative activities especially chosen to develop self-confidence, focus and concentration. Dramarama camps encompass a wide-range of performance arts training and introduce children to a variety of genres, themes and styles, with an introduction to Musical Theatre. Children take part in a wide range of fun and creative drama games, activities and exercises to develop dramatic technique, performance awareness and self-confidence. Children are placed together in age-related groups; please let us know if your child has friends of the same age attending, so that they can be together. This is a 4-day Drama Workshop Camp. Please provide a named, nut-free packed lunch and snacks each day, in packets/containers that your child is able to open. Please ensure that all food items which may be a choking hazard are sliced. Please provide cutlery if necessary. We do not have facilities on-site to heat or refrigerate food. Children should wear comfortable clothing, please ensure that all removable items are named (e.g. coats, cardigans, hoodies etc.) Children are not permitted to bring toys, special items or mobile phones to the camp. Please note, the school does not allow parents/carers to leave scooters, bikes, pushchairs on-site. All Dramarama Camps are drop-off sessions; parents/carers cannot come on-site to watch the camp, to settle a child, or to use the school's toilet facilities.

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Join us for an 'Under the Sea' themed adventure full of singing, dancing and themed arts and crafts, leading to a Little Mermaid inspired performance for family and friends. With iconic characters such as Violet Beauraugarde, Veruca Salt, Charlie and Wonka we can't wait to spend 3 days creating a magical musical performance for parents. WHAT TO EXPECT Dancing, Singing, Drama Games, Arts & Crafts and Meditation & Relaxation sessions themed around Mary Poppins. Children are split into age groups to rotate around classes taught by our expert team of passionate performers. On the last day children are invited to dress up ready for a performance for parents and friends. Our teaching team are passionate performers with showbiz CVs, DBS certificates and First Aid training who love passing on their skills and inspiring the next generation of performers. WHY PSSA? We provide a safe, fun and friendly space on which children can develop new skills whilst making friends. It is our mission to provide affordable, specialised performing arts childcare to keep little performers active and inspired through the school holidays. PERFORMANCE On the final day of camp, parents are invited to join us for a Mary Poppins presentations to end the week. Half Day Camp performance at 12:15pm Full Day Camp performance at 3pm Join the PSSA Camps for a holiday to remember!

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The Young People's Acting Project entails a series of workshops, scripted sessions, and rehearsals. You're welcome to simply turn up and participate each week, but please note that spots are limited, making early booking strongly advised. By engaging in this project, you'll culminate in a live performance at Chickenshed featuring lights, music, and costumes at the end of the Summer term. No previous experience is necessary. Term dates Young People's Acting Project runs every week, 1.30 - 3.30pm,, from 21 Apr to 14 Jul, excluding 26 May and 9 Jun. What is Sunday Shed? Sunday Shed is the perfect way to get involved with Chickenshed for the first time. There are drop-in workshop and performance projects held every Sunday!

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Our Early Stages class is suitable for children aged 4-6 years old. Early Stages classes run alongside the main Stagecoach schools, where young people learn skills in each of the three Musical Theatre disciplines of singing, dancing & drama, so it is an easy step when it is time to transfer to the next stage. In our singing classes, children learn new songs and find out about rhythm, timing and how sounds are formed. Our dancing classes give kids the confidence to try new dance moves, while our acting sessions allow budding young actors to role play and practise improvisation and storytelling. 2 week trials are available to book for £25.

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Why not try a Jigsaw Holiday Workshop as an affordable solution to keeping your children busy and active? Jigsaw provide fun and exciting performing arts activities that will build your child’s confidence. The health and safety of our students is our first priority and we have extensive measures in place to ensure the children attending are safe, while maintaining a fun and engaging environment for all. All teachers are DBS checked. There will be a balance between practical and fun activities and games that will ensure your child has a memorable holiday with an opportunity to make new friends. These students will be divided into smaller age appropriate groups. Each day will begin with ice breaker games and a physical and vocal warm up followed by exciting dance, drama and singing workshops and fun activities. Our focus will be improving the children’s performance skills whilst building their confidence and self esteem.

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CLIP Theatre present their multi-award winning drama and music classes. With story, puppetry, immersive, interactive activities, live music from professional actor musicians and sparkly props, this class is a very gentle introduction to drama and theatre for your little one, the start of their journey with us into a world of imagination, story and music, where each class level, from Newborn to age 3-5, builds on the last. BENEFITS: - In harmony with the EYFS curriculum - Increases confidence, curiosity and lays the foundations for creative thinking - Lay the foundations for imaginative play and storymaking - Boosts speech and language attainment - Boosts early attainment and lays the foundations for academic attainment, your child's creativity and problem solving, and their social development - Brings everyone joy: great fun, for you, and your LO These classes are suitable for children from 4 months - 5 years old.

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Musical Theatre is a fantastic fun form of theatrical performance that kids love. All the dancing, singing and acting students have learnt in individual classes are fused together and emphasis is placed on confident performing and style. Exerts from different musicals e.g. Wicked, Mary Poppins, Billy Elliott etc are selected each term and students then have the chance to show off these skills in our biennial Theatre productions. This Musical Theatre class is suitable for children aged 7-12 years old.

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Budding actors can spend a week training and working with a professional Theatre Director to explore a variety of drama techniques, learn new skills and create a new piece of theatre that will be performed for family and friends!

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Our Senior Drama Class is suitable for children aged 11+ years old.

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