Drama education is a collaborative artform that involves children in planning, performing and evaluating as they explore significant social and fictional contexts in ways that enhance personal self-esteem.
However, in today's primary schools, drama still does not receive the curriculum recognition that it warrants. It is largely defined as pedagogy within English or PSHE or simply defined by the school production. It is the decline of drama in primary schools that National Drama (ND)'s one-year project, entitled the Primary Initiative, seeks to address.
The ND Executive was very clear about the project's major aims. To:
They recognised that, if they were to succeed, they would need to take full account of three major contextual factors facing schools:
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