In November last year, a group of Primary 5s visited the backstage, technical workshops at the Royal Conservatoire to see how shows were produced behind the scenes. They visited the props, stage and costume departments where they saw how everything was put together by various professionals in order to create an entire show.

Here we are learning about the various props and costumes that are kept behind the scenes. We also saw how the costumes were designed and made:

Here we are looking at some other props that we constructed using moulds. The second photo is of us visiting the set cosntruction of their Christmas pantomime: The Jungle Book.

We also did a fun workshop where the staff where we learnt about using raw materials to be creative.

Return to the Conservatoire.

This term a group of Primary 7 students were able to visit another section of the conservatoire, this time to see the performance and practice areas as well as interview various professionals and students who work there.

We were able to speak with people who all had different roles behind the scenes and performers themselves in order to find out how they managed to be get into their career and what qualifications and experience they needed. We also were able to ask them questions about what they loved the most and what made their journey difficult as well as asking them our own personal questions we were curious about.