Training workshops. For some it can conjure up images of stuffy conference rooms, well brewed coffee and lazily scrawled notes on complimentary notepads.
Where can you be part of a workshop that features giant inflatable beach balls and light-up tambourines? The Sing Up Training Programme, that’s where!
The mentioned props were used as tools as part of Jessica Curry’s Music and singing for children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and other special needs workshop at the Albany Theatre, London.
It wasn’t all bright lights and hot air though, Jessica produced a programme that approached and developed ideas in a manner that was both sensitive and energetic. Every song and idea she delivered finished with every delegate up on their feet practicing the exercise and there were plenty of opportunities for everyone to share ideas and discuss the day-to-day problems they face.
Some fresh ideas came out of the session; including heartfelt advice on helping pupils with selective mutism. We were also introduced to one teacher’s ‘magic bag’ that makes pupils do ‘the best applause in the world’ every time it was opened (but not for too long, as it’s a very precious resource!).
The day was inspirational for all who attended. Lamorna from Linden Lodge School in Wandsworth was especially excited. ‘I’ve been to a lot of similar training sessions with various organisations, but this has been the most engaging’. Liann Hogg, another practitioner, went one step further. ‘It’s the first course I’ve been on were I’ve not wanted to go home!’
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