PPA – standing for preparation, planning and assessment is a compliance
with the national agreement – designed to enable teachers to focus more
effectively on their teaching, increase the role of support staff and provide
every pupil with a chance to achieve greater success.
Manic Stage Productions help schools raise standards and tackle workload
by offering Manic’s creative team to provide teachers with the minimum 10%
guaranteed PPA time required. Manic’s PPA Workshops have become very popular
throughout Hampshire helping develop school’s PPA strategy by offering
additional staff. With Manic’s unique and versatile teaching methods, they bring
to life the national curriculum using dance and drama giving pupils a chance to
develop their creativity and confidence. Each week Manic supplies their qualified performing arts teachers to many school
across Portsmouth. They help releave the pressures of PPA and provide both the
staff and children with an exciting alternative.
Solent Infants School have used Manic for the past 5 terms to work with
their Year 1 pupils. Manic work
closely with each school to create lessons that suit both age and ability
whilst installing confidence and creativity. This term the children are working
with Manic's Emma, learning the dance style - Contemporary!
Contemporary requires the children to explore the total movement
potential of the body. It allows them to express a personalised vision, often
through experimentation and collaboration. Manic encourage the children to
develop new, more individual approaches to moving their body and begin to try
choreographic possibilities. The
children have had great fun and are always pleased to see Emma and get involved.
The Head Teacher – Lucy Wilby from Solent Infants School is really
pleased with Manic’s work. She said “We are very aware that PPA within our
school represents a significant amount of our pupils’ curriculum and this is
why we have to get it right! Each term we sit down together and plan for the
next series of sessions adapting the bespoke provision to match our learners
needs. Our pupils look forward to their ‘Manic’ time and even those who were
previously reluctant to join in can be seen bopping around before the session
has even started! We feel that our children have made strides in their physical
development thanks to Manic.”
If your school would like more information on Manic Stage Productions
and our PPA package, please email your request to nicole_manic@yahoo.co.uk
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