The Helen O’Grady Drama Academy prides itself as being an affordable Worldwide community-based drama school. With its unique curriculum, the Helen O’Grady Drama Academy aims to develop confidence, self-esteem and communication skills across the 3 to 18 age range, with full classes for adults 18+ too. The success of this organisation, which has over 50,000 students attending classes worldwide each
week, comes from the strong belief in nurturing the innate talents of all its students, using experienced, fully qualified and vetted teachers. All the Academy’s teachers undergo an extensive training in the Helen O’Grady curriculum and teaching methods to ensure each student is encouraged in a warm, positive learning environment. Students can progress through the Academy from 5 through to 18 without ever repeating a lesson. There are our Kindy classes for the little ones from age 3-5 years too. The drama programme caters for the following age-groups:
Kindy 3-5 years (Starter Course)
The kindergarten programme empowers young children and their natural self through creative drama, working with children to build confidence, communication and interactive skills though drama techniques, for example: storytelling, improvisation, devised theatre and play, mime and dance and much more. This curriculum runs throughout school terms in private studios and pre-schools. The sessions run for 45 minutes per class and parents stay or wait outside depending upon the age of the child and ratio of teacher and children. The sessions run set and seasonal themes throughout the year. The lessons are structured and devised to allow creative development as we believe every child matters and drama is such a rewarding experience regardless of age. Children take from drama what they need and we work with the children to achieve whatever that may be, no matter what age they are. Lower Primary 5-8 years (Foundation Course)
The Helen O'Grady developmental drama programme for Lower Primary provides young children ages 5 to 8 with unique opportunities to develop clear speech, fluent delivery and pleasing social skills.Our program helps to give them the confidence to be participants in all aspects of their lives, able to ask questions, seek answers and share information with others. Children who mix well with others find it easier to make friends and adjust to new situations. The Academy's highly trained teachers motivate and inspire the students to become articulate communicators through enthusiastic participation in a wide range of creative activities including speech, creative movement, improvisation, and a special year-end performance. Upper Primary 9-12 years (Intermediate Course)
The confident, articulate child finds it easier to make friends, accept new challenges and explore new directions. The Helen O'Grady Drama Academy Upper Primary program for children ages 9-12 is designed to help each child achieve these invaluable life skills.Students in our Upper Primary program participate in a wide range of creative activities including speech, dramatic movement, improvisation, snippets and scene starters.At the end of each year they utilise all the skills acquired during the year to create a short, scripted production, which is performed, for parents and friends.In a fun-filled atmosphere, our classes aim to give young people ongoing confidence, self-esteem and skill in verbal communication. Youth Theatre 13-18 years (Advanced Course)
The Academy attracts a wide range of young people, from those seeking to increase their confidence and speaking ability, to those hoping to pursue a career in the theatre.The dynamic, theatre arts program encompasses a five-year cycle of curriculum providing young actors with a great diversity of material for film, television, radio and theatre. As with the classes for 5-12 year olds, the developmental side of the program is still important, Yoputh theatre 13-18 yearsencouraging the students to become confident, articulate communicators. The theatre arts side of the program is very comprehensive, covering amongst many other aspects, spontaneous improvisation, voice production, small group improvisation with specific directives, mini scripts, character analysis, open-ended duologues, theatre games, radio plays, quick fire dialogues, monologues and structured scenes.It is the aim that our Youth Theatre Students have the competitive edge over their peers.This is a crucial time in their young lives where effective communication skills will help shape their future career path.Performance is at the heart of the Youth Theatre Curriculum and students have many opportunities to show their advanced skills, including an end-of-year production. Adult Classes 19+ (Specialist Course)
Adult classes focus on the 3 Ps: Presentation, Public Speaking and Performance skills. In today's world, people who can communicate effectively are the ones who will achieve success in their social and professional lives. The skills learnt in these classes will help all adults to become articulate speakers, with excellent presentation skills.With a theatrical base to these classes, students will learn advanced voice production, spontaneous thinking, improvisation, and advanced acting technique for film, radio and the theatre. All students attend a one-hour lesson, each week of the school year. In the summer term all the students begin rehearsing a scripted play, devised for their particular age-group, which is performed to a public audience. This is the highlight of the Academy’s year and reflects the talents and the skills of the students and their teachers. The Helen O’Grady Drama Academy has its studio at Vivies Dance Factory in East Legon which runs classes on Saturdays. To find out about this unique programme, or to reserve a place on the waiting list, please contact Vivian Boateng (Principal) on 0552508561 or 0506671968 E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.dramaafrica.com
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Helen O’Grady Drama Academy, Accra, Ghana.
