We continued with “the Lonely Dragon” story from last week’s session. As with last week, we discussed some additional techniques that we could implement within the classroom.  Discussion of thought tunnels, improvisation and hot seating are all useful tools to use within school.

Hot seating was practiced first. This is where one of the students would take on the role of the dragon, and the rest would ask them questions. This allows children to come up with their own creative ideas, and lets them express their ideas with the group.

Once this was discussed, we then done some additional freeze frames and were asked to describe the thoughts and feelings of the villagers or the dragon. This gives better insight to others, and helps give people ideas if they are struggling to come up with anything.

Improvisation was the last aspect that was covered this week. We talked through the story so far and came up with ideas for the next part of the plot. This included things like talking to the dragon, the journey to the mountain where it lived and how the dragon would react. A good literacy idea would be to get the pupils to write a letter to the dragon, or perhaps writing a story of the dragons past. Through drama, children’s imagination will have improved and their literacy skills may develop.