Term 4 Week 1 2025

Dear Parents,

In Week 7, we had 45 students participate in the Speech and Drama Eisteddfod at Regional College. I was so proud of the drama students as they grew so much in confidence and lit up the stage with so much talent across a variety of areas of Speech and Drama. 

The benefits of Speech and Drama are enormous and the skills learnt can last a lifetime. They include the development of: 

confidence and self esteem, teamwork and collaboration skills, verbal and non-verbal communication, active listening, self expression, emotional regulation, creative, imaginative and critical thinking, improved literacy and vocabulary, reading and articulation skills, empathy, leadership skills and resilience. 

Drama is currently offered as a lunch club once a week but with the large number of students wanting to participate this year, across many areas, I needed to take students nearly every lunch time, in an attempt to train each student and group. This is not sustainable looking forward to next year. 

With the number of students growing each year, I am wondering if students would be interested in doing Drama as a weekly after school program. It would be held in our school hall from 3.00 - 4.30pm and cost approximately $10 per class. 

These classes would work on skills in: 

Reading aloud, delivering speeches, pronunciation, articulation, voice projection, play-building, improvisation, theatre sports, mime, monologues and characterisation, small group work, verse speaking, singing and acting in Musical theatre. 

We would work towards the Speech and drama Eisteddfod in September, the school production and/or other school events and an end of year Christmas performance in December. 

If this sounds like something you and your child/ren might be interested in, please indicate in the form: 

https://forms.gle/nWtSdJ4hjY7PcWh67

Thank you, 

Yours in Drama, 

Leah Toole