Programme: Arts Residential
Anglesey | Tattenhall
A unique course of Arts activities built to your curriculum needs where students will enjoy Art, Drama, Dance and Music activity sessions to bring their learning to life.
Lights, Camera, Action! This course takes place in the beautiful surroundings of Anglesey, North Wales or Tattenhall, Cheshire. The Conway Centres compromises of a main hall with a stage rigged with lighting and surround sound systems, as well as various workspaces including The Chapel, making it the perfect location for your Art, Drama, Dance and Music activities. The Tattenhall centre offers a Drama/Dance studio and Art Room, perfect for smaller groups and primary classes. Our course provides an opportunity for groups to come together and share experiences which will last a lifetime all whilst engaging with the arts to boost critical thinking.
Our aim is to foster a sense of achievement where we inspire individuals, empower minds, and define futures through The Arts and develop young people to achieve their potential and introduce them to potential lifelong interest in Art, Drama, Dance and Music.
- Dance and Drama – to communicate with and understand others in new ways using specific techniques and processes, thus supporting, and preparing students to live and work in a world that is increasingly team - orientated, rather than hierarchical. Dance and Drama also helps students develop tolerance and empathy.
- Music – to support learning and impact the way that the brain can process information, enhancing the perception of language and speech, and subsequently improving our ability to communicate with others. Music can also reduce aggressive behaviour and regulate moods, particularly feelings of anxiety and stress: when students are able to manage their emotions in more positive ways, students are able to enhance their learning potential.
- Art - helps learners to develop creative problem - solving skills through presenting difficult concepts visually, making them easier to understand.
Sample 2 -Night Visit
| Day 1 | ||
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| Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
| Travel to centre- Visit to a local attraction linked to your course theme |
Art from the Landscape: Explore the local area: walk around our beautiful grounds, out to the Menai Straits, collecting images and artefacts which will inspire a 2D or 3D piece of art, including: Batik / printing Watercolours, oils, pastels Wire / Modroc sculpture |
Memory Book: Using the images collected in the afternoon and throughout your stay (which our team will print for you), create a shared memory book which will be added to during your time in Conway and followed up back in school. These may be an individual, a group or a combined response. |
| Day 2 | ||
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| Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
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Drama: Welsh Myths and Legends Listen to the stories of magic and mayhem, including The Girl from Llyn y Fan Fach or the Giant Brân before recreating through stills and scriptwriting, with your students as a performer in a group response. |
Music: Listening to the music of Wales to inspire and compose a modern folk song, using ideas from your students’ experiences, with opportunities to create and perform rhythmic accompaniments |
Nightline or Orienteering |
| Day 3 | ||
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| Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
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A collaborative response inspired by life in Wales; the farms and cities, the hills and valleys, the rivers and sea. Review of the course |
Travel Home |
Sample 4-Night Visit
| Monday | ||
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| Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
| Travel from school to the centre: This may include a visit to a cultural venue linked to your course theme and / or a dérive in the grounds and surrounding environment of the centre, taking and collecting images, sounds and artefacts. | Art: Using the images collected in the afternoon and throughout your stay (which our team will print for you), create a shared memory book which will be added to during your time on residential and followed up back in school. These may be an individual, a group or a combined response. | Dinner followed by: Self-led by the school or additional purchased activity. |
| Day 2 | ||
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| Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
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Drama: Using a themed story, an image, an event, students will explore a dramatic response to understand the feelings and emotions as a performer. These ideas will be photographed for subsequent sessions (following your setting’s policies) |
Music: Creative composition inspired by your theme incorporating structure and form, silence, natural sound, found sound and body percussion. Your work will be recorded and used in subsequent sessions. |
Campfire |
| Day 3 | ||
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| Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
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Dance: Using the musical composition created by the group, choreograph a piece which evokes the mood and atmosphere of the theme, showing contrast and variety in the chosen movements. |
Art: Combining objects found on your group’s dérive and inspired by work from significant artists, your students will create a 2D or 3D response to your theme, selecting from: Batik / printing Watercolours, oils, pastels Wire / Modroc sculpture |
Self-led by the school or additional purchased activity. |
| Day 4 | ||
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| Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
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Drama: Using the images from the previous session to explore the roles of the lighting designer, sound designer, set designer, costume designer or puppet designer. |
Music: Select from a song-writing or percussion workshop, to create a new piece and / or explore performers’ responses to your theme. |
Drumming Workshop; Samba/Djembe |
| Day 5 | ||
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| Morning | Afternoon | Evening |
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Dance: Bringing together the week’s choreography, musical composition and dramatic stills into a performance piece. Review of the course. |
Travel Home |
- 2- or 4-nights' accomodation.
- Full board basis
- Tailored activity sessions to meet your desired outcomes
All from £165.10 pp for 2 nights or £316.20 for 4 nights.
