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Working With Your School
We believe in working together with schools and teachers to develop children and young people’s abilities – it is at the core of our work and central to our ethos as a community and cultural organisation. Whether you’re a primary or secondary school, find out how we can work together and put creative at the heart of children and young people’s learning experience.
School Partnerships
Long-term Partnerships
Our Schools Partnership Programme offers practical and experiential approaches to learning using drama practice and the theatre to enhance children’s learning. Our current long-term partner schools are: Badger Hill Primary, Bootham Junior School, Knavesmire Primary, Clifton Green Primary and Clifton With Rawcliffe Primary. Download our schools brochure here for further details.
RSC Associate Schools
Stand Up For Shakespeare
Through this national programme we are working together with the Royal Shakespeare Company to change the way children and young people engage, experience and take ownership of Shakespeare in schools. The programme is funded to support children in areas of structural disadvantage and to help level the playing field for all children.
Following on from the highly successful Learning and Performance Network, this project involves regional theatres’ each working in partnership with a local Lead and Associate schools. The project showcases the RSC Stand Up For Shakespeare manifesto, with its call to action for children and young people to do Shakespeare on their feet, see it live and start it earlier.
Since 2014 our RSC Associate Schools work has created the following festivals: The Merchant of Venice (2023), Much Ado About Nothing (2021), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2021), Macbeth (2019), Julius Caesar (2018), What Country, Friend Is This? (2017), The Tempest (2016), The Head That Wears A Crown (2015), Responding To Richard (2014).
Our current Associate Schools are: Clifton Green Primary, Brayton Academy, Applefields School, St Barnabas CE, Amotherby Primary, Vale of York Academy, and Acomb primary.
Interested in taking part? Contact schools@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
NT Connections
Working Nationally
Each year the National Theatre commission ten new plays for young people to perform – 300 young companies and over 6,000 young people aged 13-19 years from across the UK take part. We play host to many of these companies in our Studio theatre. Interested in taking part next year? Our festival runs week commencing April 4th 2022 where we will be hosting 11 companies to our Studio theatre. Contact schools@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
Playhouse
Collaboration
Playhouse is a national collaboration between Theatre Royal Plymouth, Theatr Iolo, Landmark Theatres and York Theatre Royal. The organisations work together to commission professional playwrights each year to write short plays specifically for large casts of young people aged 8 to 11 years to perform. This culminates in festivals performing new plays across the UK. Interested in taking part next year? Contact schools@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
For further details visit: https://www.uk-playhouse.com/
Workshops and Tours
DEVELOPING CREATIVE ABILITIES
For primary and secondary schools, we offer workshops and tours throughout the year. The central focus of our workshops is story and narrative – how a story or production is made and told is as important as what it is about. We aim to develop children and young people’s critical and creative abilities as well as stimulate an interest and understanding of how drama and theatre can enhance and challenge their learning experiences.
Work Experience Opportunities
We offer a range of ways to engage with young people and support the skills development – from our innovative Futureproof project to regularly advertised opportunities in our Working Here page.
Please email youththeatre@yorktheatreroyal.co.uk.
Brochure
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT HOW WE CAN WORK TOGETHER WITH YOUR SCHOOL
