Throughout the year we organise and run weekend residential training courses in mantle of the expert at Ringsfield Hall in Suffolk. These course are ideal for both newcomers and experienced users. Running from Friday night until Sunday lunchtime, they contain a series of practical workshops that explore all the fundamental skills of drama, planning and teaching needed to teach MoE successfully in the classroom.

Organised by David Allen, from the Midland’s Actors Theatre, in partnership with maths teacher Ross Currie, this report details their work with a class of Year 8 students at Turves Green Boys’ Technology College, Birmingham. Using moe they created a Roller Coaster design company commissioned by Alton Towers to invent a new ride for their theme park and to frame the student’s maths curriculum for meaningful and engaging learning.

For more than 50 years teachers have been watching Dorothy Heathcote at work trying to emulate her way with drama in the classroom. This important film documents her life and work featuring film from the Newcastle University archive and interviews with teachers influenced by her legacy.

Gavin Bolton – Essential Writings

For over 40 years, Gavin Bolton has been a leading figure in Drama in Education. His publications cover all aspects of young people’s educational drama and this selection of his key writings provides insight into the major areas of his theory and practice.

This attachement is the 2010 HMI Survey on Curriculum used in the most successful schools inspected by ofsted – “Curriculum design, personalisation and raising standards” Evidence from ofsted, Robin Hammerton HMI, National Adviser – Personalisation
Robin Hammerton HMI (author and leader of the team of Her Majesties Inspectorate for Schools in England and Wales) outlines the findings of the impact survey of primary schools in the past 3 years with a focus on finding out how the most successful schools teach the curriculum.

These resources and notes are from the training in mantle of the expert in Ramallah, Palestine in August, 2010 with the support of the Qattan Foundation.

From the Autumn Term, 2010 the staff and children of Grimley and Holt CE Primary School will be holding termly Study Days for Mantle of the Expert. These days will give visitors the opportunity to: These days will give visitors the opportunity to:
• observe outstanding practice
• work with our practitioners
• see our approach to planning and assessment
• discuss the challenge of leadership

This conference was held at the Barnham Broom hotel, Norwich on Friday, 18th June, 2010. With more than 70 delegates from schools from around the country. The inquiry at the conference will focused on the future of education in light of the recent change of government and the cancellation of the New Primary Curriculum.

This page documents some of the outcomes from the Kent mantle of the expert project, which ran from October 2009 and July 2010. The project involved 22 primary schools from the Dartford area. Each school included two project teachers who made a commitment to study the approach and trial it in their own classrooms.

Dorothy Heathcote has recently published two entirely new articles on mantle of the expert for the NATD.

“Productive Tension. A Keystone in Mantle of the Expert”
“Internal Coherence. A Factor for consideration in teaching to learn”

Dorothy Heathcote is also presenting a keynote and leading a workshop at the Wales mantle of the expert conference in Abergavenny on 28th June. There are still a few tickets left, if you would like to attend please visit the conference webpage.

NATD Story: At the heart of educational drama

October 1st – 3rd, 2010
Oriel College, Oxford

With a focus on stroy as a medium for learning, this conference you will be a fantastic opportunity for you to join up with both fellow practisioners and experts and acquire a wealth of ideas on using drama as an exciting and successful way of teaching.