Past Projects

Creative Partnerships:
In 2010 / 2011 We worked with a network of six Wakefield Schools in our Creative Partnerships programme.
We asked the question ‘What makes a Creative Learning Environment?’ in tailor-made programmes that aligned with schools key strategic priorities and allowed for CPD opportunities within each school.

We worked with St Marys CofE Junior and Infants School, Horbury Bridge Primary School, Airedale High School, Highfield SEN School, Sandal Magna Junior and Infants School and Cathedral CE School (The Wakefield School of the Arts).

Wakefield Film Society: Director’s Page to Screen Masterclass

We were delighted to work with Wakefield Film Society to bring acclaimed Film Director Jan Dunn to Wakefield College to run a ‘Page to Screen’ workshop for the Acting BTEC course prior to her film “The Calling” being shown at the Theatre on Tuesday 21st September.
Jan Dunn has worked with actors including Pauline Mclynn, Paul McGann, Rula Lenska, Bob Hoskins, Brenda Blethyn, Susannah York, Amanda Donohoe and Rita Tushingham!

Raise - Artists In Schools
Raise - Artists In Schools is a year long programme of arts based activity, delivered across 3 schools within the Wakefield District, which involves an artist or artists from Theatre Royal Wakefield working with a variety of young people and teachers to create new and innovative opportunities for creative practice.

“All children and young people should have the chance to experience top quality culture... I want all young people to have the chance to both experience and take part in creative activities to help them learn and develop.” Ed Balls, Children’s Minister

Funded by Healthy Schools, Raise - Artists In Schools will provide a unique opportunity to work alongside education specialists and young people to develop and deliver a substantial period of creative engagement which, we believe, will have a huge positive impact on the mental and emotional health and wellbeing of all the participants.

Performing for Success
Performing For Success is a programme that works with children from schools in the Wakefield District. Wakefield Council’s Children’s Centres and Extended Services Department commissioned Theatre Royal Wakefield to deliver this series of sessions.

The pilot, which took place November 2008 to January 2009, is inspired by the original and successful Playing For Success programme in which children engage with each other and professionals in a sports environment thus encouraging them to approach learning in a different way.

Performing for success follows the same structure as the Playing for Success model in that children will learn in an arts environment, but the delivery will be more practical with an emphasis on performance and skills learned in a creative way.

In the same way that the Playing For Success programme finishes with a ‘celebration event’, the Performing For Success sessions will culminate in a performance or other practical piece of work which is intended to give the children a sense of pride and ownership in their new skills.

Murray Edwards, Theatre Royal Wakefield’s Executive Director said: “We are extremely proud to be the first creative organisation in the whole of the UK to run this programme. I place great importance on the role that the arts have to play in learning and development and we intend to play our part in making the scheme a national success for the benefit of children and young people throughout the country!”