Create & Design, KS1/2 Set Design, Alices Adventures in Wonderland

Use this CPD to inspire your class to become designers as they respond to a set design brief for a ballet production.

For five lessons, your students will be honorary members of the design team at the Royal Opera House. Kevin O'Hare, Director of The Royal Ballet, will commission your young designers to design a stage set for the ballet.

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Designed to build teachers’ confidence when delivering the Design & Technology and Art & Design curriculums in schools.

Learn how to facilitate students' creativity as they explore original ideas.

During the scheme of work students will learn, develop and practice skills including:

∙ Understand a brief

∙ Research

∙ Develop ideas

∙ Generate concepts

∙ Sketch and model make

∙ Prototype and complete

∙ Self-evaluate and iterate

∙ Present

At the end of the scheme of work each member of your class will have individual examples of set models to show and their own sketchbook describing their ideas and decision-making process.

What is Create & Design?

Create & Design is a hands-on design skills programme that supports students' creative problem-solving, develops empathy, builds careers understanding, and connections between STEM and the arts, using ballet or opera as a stimulus.

During CPD training, you’ll engage with the building blocks of stage design, developing your confidence to implement creative techniques in the classroom.

Our practical, full day, certified CPD training is led by a team of ROH artists. It is suitable for class teachers, or subject leads. No previous experience of design teaching or opera is needed.

Create & Design is part of The ROH National Schools Programme and is FREE for all state funded primary schools.

Discover award-winning, flexible learning programmes, powered by the creative excellence of the Royal Opera House – for creativity and confidence in every classroom.

What's next?

Following CPD, we invite you to apply your learning by following these simple steps with your class – all FREE to access.

Meet the Artists

Introduce opera and stage design in a fun and accessible way by joining an interactive, live streamed, workshop from your classroom.

20 May 2024, 10:45 to 11:45am

To register for this event please complete the following form - Meet the Artists

Create & Design in your classroom

Put our flexible five lesson schemes of work into practice. Use our detailed lesson plans and high-quality digital resources, or apply our robust pedagogy to a topic of your choice.

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Share & Celebrate!

Join ROH artists, and schools around the country from your classroom, for a live streamed event to share and celebrate your learning.

17 July at 10:45 to 11:45am

Further details on how to take part will be shared at the CPD

For any queries please contact createandlearn@roh.org.uk

National Schools Programme

The National Schools Programme is designed for you to implement in a flexible way to meet the outcomes that matter most in your setting:  

• Enhance existing curricula in KS1&2 Design & Technology
• Apply an innovative approach to a subject or topic for creative approaches across curricula 
• Tailor our resources to the ambitions of your school, embed creative pedagogies to make a sustained change to your arts-led learning, developing children’s social communication, creativity and emotional resilience

For more information, visit www.roh.org.uk/schools