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How long do kids usually do Speech and Drama?!
How cool is this – speech and drama is an activity that plenty of kids grow out of! Which is bloody brilliant as far as we’re concerned. With tiny classes (10-12 kids) and long waiting lists, we’re happy to send our students into the world with a pocket full of skills and a head full of poems.
One Year Wonder
A year of speech and drama can work wonders, especially around grade 1-2 and grade 5-6.
After just 12 months of drama, expect to see improved clarity of speech, reduced frustration working in groups, increased vocabulary and more confidence with expressive reading.
For kids who’ve been doing OT or Speech Therapy, speech and drama can be a good bridge to the next activity where we build confidence and skills to help them thrive in whatever class/ program/ activity they choose next.
Threesy Does It
Three years of speech and drama is enough to complete a full cycle of Studio Skills.
Our curriculum moves through a sequential series of units to develop skills in Speech (breathing > articulation > modulation > resonance > projection > connection) and Drama (posture > gesture > character > stagecraft > energy > mime).
After three years children who engage with speech and drama are noticeably calm on stage, confident reading aloud, clear on their learning style and sensory needs, and articulate in conversation.
Forever Family
There are also the kids who grow up on our stage. They might play a slice of cheese in their first concert and Mary Poppins in their last concert. We write scripts with these kids in mind. We text mum to check in if they seem down.
It’s remarkable to sit with a group of older kids and have big conversations around consent or identity and remember when we used to have to ask them not to bite the hats.
As a small studio, we are so grateful to those families who have stuck around through the-flood-famine-pandemic-tempest of the last fifteen years! Our forever families who made speak up the place it is today.