Schools Workshops

Welcome to Our History, Our Heritage Schools Workshops.

The following innovative and creative workshops have been carefully designed by artists, elders and OHOH, are immediately available, for you and your school. Inspired by contributions past and present to black peoples struggles against injustice, we aim to foster students understanding of our common humanity.

These workshops most readily slot into citizenship areas of the curriculum. Other areas include literature, arts, history, local history, humanities, politics. All workshops are competitively priced at £125 with a 50% subsidy available to primary schools. This subsidy extends to newly piloted workshops whilst our subsidy funding stream is available; that means a mere £62.50! Unless otherwise stated, they are for a whole class or tutor group.

Please send us an email to express your interest at ohoh@btinternet.com and someone will get back to you. Alternatively if you wish to speak to someone, please ring Tuesday or Thursdays between 8.00 to 1.00 p.m (lunchtime) on 0117 9243867. All workshops are continuously evaluated by students, teachers and ourselves to improve the service we offer to you.

1.THE BRISTOL BUS BOYCOTT & BEYOND

Years 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
Cost £125

Our aim is to aid students first hand learning about racism in Bristol in 1963 and to think critically about its impact today. This workshop using a combination of video uses a combination of video clip, personal testimony and a writing activity.

Workshop Description:
It is of 60 min duration and is currently being facilitated by civil right facilitated by civil rights activist Paul Stephenson who led the Bristol Bus Boycott.


Bristol Race Equality Council photo


‘I felt thoughtful because I never thought deeply
about those things we talked about.’ 
Year 6 student South Bristol School.



2. THE SINGING COCONUT - for infant, reception and nursery children 

An enthralling interactive story created by Rose Thorn, performer, artist and
drama therapist using movement, song and props for the very young. The Singing Coconut deals sensitively with issues of migration, loss and identity. For the very young aged 3 to 7 years. The interactive performance lasts 20 mins. A small group drama workshop follows on from performance (i.e up to 8).

n.b. this workshop can only be facilitated only on a Monday.

3. INVISIBLE LIVES Black Bristolians of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries (a pilot)  drama workshop
   
Years 5,6,7,8.

Working in small groups, students will use archive source material to prompt their imaginations and express themselves in role play. Students will undertake a drama activitity bringing to life, the lives of some of Bristol’s black citizens living in the city during the 17th 18th and 19th century during a 60 min session. Students will flesh out a character, a scene, then go onto present their creations to their peers.
A facilitated discussion will follow. 
The sessions will end with a spoken word tribute by the artist and workshop facilitator Ros Martin.

Cost £125 subsidy available on this pilot.


4. OPEN SUITCASE based on Refugee Boy
Adaptable to meet needs of children from reception class up to year 7 students.

Cost £125




‘Thank you for your lovely assembly, I loved it. You taught us about leaving home and refugee and hopes for the future. Memories are very special too. I learned a lot of things.’ 
Student Cheddar Grove Primary

‘We devised 3 interactive drama pieces based on Small Island, Refugee Boy and Amazing Grace books, covering themes of journey, loss, identity, self esteem and racism.  The pieces were visually performed by us using speech, cloth and song.  Throughout the performances we engaged the students to talk about the impact of the drama they were witnessing, and encouraged discussion on the issues raised.’

Facilitated by theatre director Ruth Pitter and actor Valerie Mower; a short interactive drama assembly can precede a class workshop. 75min   (This workshop has been developed as part of the Small Island Great Reading Adventure 2007).

5. PERFORMANCE WORKSHOPS
Workshop costs for GCSE students £250 a two hour workshop
Let your performance students learn from Our Stories Make Waves: I WITNESS project experience; see www.ourstoriesmakewaves.co.uk

Let’s inspire their creative ideas for their project work, in cross art form work or ways of working from archive to performance in a practical two hour workshop.

Remi Tawose and Philippa Smith are experienced workshop practitioners combining dance, movement, song, and music to performance. We have successfully worked with A Level students at Cotham Sch and wish this facility to be made available to other schools and performing Arts colleges. Rather than prescribe we will devise a workshop to specifically meet  the expressed creative needs of your students.

Remi Tawose and Philippa Smith
photocopyright Mark Simmons.

What students most enjoyed about the workshop:
‘‘Being told to do stuff, yet with freedom. In our group at school we don’t really have a natural leader and feel restricted so it was a good change.’
‘Using movement in theatre and adapting it, also getting a fresh perspective from the piece.’
‘Improvising it was fun I don’t do it as much as I would like to.’

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NEW HANDS ON LEARNING BROUGHT TO YOU AND YOUR SCHOOL
STAFF TRAINING ON OHOH ABOLITION RESOURCES

Roll your sleeves up get down to the business of child centred learning with our abolition resources. This is an opportunity to try our first hand our creative exercises and activities.

Be assured you have the best scholarly source material to work from: our own Bristol based eminent Caribbean historian Dr Richard Hart’s work. We will begin with developing a creative framework to appreciate some of the many rebellions and uprisings across sugar plantations in the Caribbean region focusing on the EMANCIPATION rebellion that forced the British government to reset the time-table for abolition.  We aim to aid your own and consequently your students learning about the nature of power and oppression, protest and self empowerment that enables oppressed people to rise up, organise and take control of their lives.

Opportunities will be offered for teachers/students to express their ideas and thoughts creatively through discussion: small group and whole class, drawing, role play, painting, writing and any other ideas you have. With plenty of opportunity to reflect, ask questions trouble shoot. The resources will be available as e resources

We will be encouraging teachers to feedback samples of resulting children’s work we can show case on our website.

Activities include: Drawings, painting, role play, co-operative group games,
self evaluation, assembly presentation.

COSTS FOR TRAINING  

Years 6, 7, 8 and 9
Up to 16 teaching ancillary staff groups(no less than 6) £75 whole school day. Each staff member £450
£50 am  session 4 hrs  for each staff member