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Policy Documents
Education Policy
The main aspect of our education work is exploring the role of theatre as an educator in health and social education issues.
We work in partnership with venues, schools, pupil referral units, youth groups and community groups to deliver innovative and inspiring projects that have genuine impact.
YWT runs a dedicated education programme to accompany its artistic provision, the focus of which is enabling creativity for personal development and providing access to quality performing arts education.
We believe that the experience of engaging with theatre together with others as an audience is a life enhancing experience in itself. Young people discover empathy with characters in the plays and workshops and affirm for themselves their own emotional journeys; they witness the challenges faced by others and appreciate different perspectives of life.
A comprehensive Teachers' workpack is available for each production. The workpacks are free to every school that books to see a performance either in school or at a venue. They connect closely with the National Curriculum at the appropriate Key Stage.
Our delivery is accessible and inspiring, building on each person's capabilities and emphasising a sense of achievement for all.
Our Aims
- To support and inspire arts provision in schools
- To broaden access for all to rich and varied artistic and cultural life
- To ensure that the artistic activity we produce aspires to be high quality in terms of standards and innovation
- To reduce the number of those who feel excluded from society by using the arts
- To carry out our work using best management practice and reflecting and using the diversity of those who work with the Company in all areas.
- To create an awareness in young people of theatre as a powerful medium for creative expression and cultural development.
- To promote the arts as a tool for learning which are active and investigative rather than passive and prescribed.
- To develop educational programmes that reflect the artistic work of the Company
- To encourage teachers'/group workers to explore their own creativity and learn how to translate this into the classroom / environment.
- To contribute to training for theatre practitioners, particularly for those traditionally denied such opportunities for social or economic reasons.
- To maintain and develop a system of monitoring and evaluation, ensuring that our productions and workshops are accessible and relevant to young people and teachers/group workers.
