The students stay safely distanced on a personal and emotional level, as they are ‘working in role’, within a fiction. The PSHE knowledge gained, and the skills practised, are often highly memorable and help them in their real lives and within future workplaces.
Drama strategies can be used to stimulate and scaffold students' thinking and inter-thinking. Used selectively, sequentially (and hopefully aesthetically), they provide structured opportunities for students to think, talk and act collaboratively, within a PSHE focused drama. Drama is a social activity and provides opportunities for practising teamwork, leadership, perseverance, negotiation, presentation and many other important life and work-related skills.
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