schools

Schools
Creative Literacy
Film
Create a Comedy Show
After School Club
Cross Curricular
Behaviour & Inclusion
Inset Training Days
ELE Days
Laughter Yoga
Health & Wellbeing PSHE
Drama, BTEC & GCSE
Past Projects
Testimonials

SCHOOLS

Big Comedy Shop has formed good relationships with schools all around the North West. Our aim is to bring a little comedy into the class room whilst looking at a diverse range of subjects. Big Comedy Shop will tailor resources specifically to the requirement of your school.

AVAILABLE FOR KEY STAGES 2, 3 AND 4

We also run workshops available for teachers and NQTs as well as for students. See HERE

CREATIVE LITERACY

Develop students’ use of language, reading and writing. Stimulate their imagination with comedy, dance, drama, multi-media, rap and vocal work.

FILM

Produce, direct and act in your own funny film. Make a documentary (or mockumentary) about your school or community. Film is also a great way to explore issue based learning.

CLICK HERE to view our Film/Theatre Media page to find out more.

CREATE A COMEDY SHOW

A fantastic event for the whole school. Create your own performance with a drama or comedy piece, where students will write, act, direct and even create props and scenery for a live show.

AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS

COMEDY CLUBS

Big Comedy Shop runs after school provisions assisting the agenda of Every Child Matters and Extended Schools.

For one hour a week students can attend their own comedy club, have a giggle and work towards performing their own

comedy sketch show – whether live or filmed.

ART CLUBS

Students would meet once a week after school to explore and enhance their artistic skills – creating their own cartoon character, or own comic strip story and much more!

CROSS CURRICULAR

Use comedy and drama for a refreshing approach across curriculum subjects such as English, Science, History, Geography or Business. Past projects have included exploring the use of language in Roald Dahl's books with year 7 students at Offerton High School in Stockport and using comedy and drama looking at the era of the Tudor times at Chorlton Park Primary in Manchester.

BEHAVIOUR AND INCLUSION

Activities for improving behaviour and inclusion. This can include workshops on motivation, dealing with difficult situations and communication skills.

INSET TRAINING DAYS

Click Here to see our TEACHER/NQT/YOUTH WORKER Training Pages,

ELE DAYS

Looking for an end of term treat for students? Need a creative resource to explore a certain theme? A year 6 induction day? Big Comedy Shop can provide fun workshops to suit your needs.

LAUGHTER YOGA

Sun demands no reason to shine;
Water demands no reason to flow;
A child demands no reason to be happy;
Why do we need a reason to laugh?

Laughter Yoga was started by a medical doctor, Dr.Madan Kataria from India with just five people from a Mumbai Park in 1995. Today there are thousands of laughter yoga clubs in more than 65 countries.

At Big Comedy shop we have our very own fully certified laughter yoga Leader, Eddie Capli to deliver a fun energising laughter session for you.

Laughter yoga has many physiological and psychological benefits to offer.
Laughter itself is proven to boost the immune system, release endorphins, combat stress, provide more oxygen to the brain , helps with depression ,improves social lives-the list goes on...

So Laughter Yoga is about using the scientific fact that the human body cannot differentiate between real or fake laughter if done with willingness.

We initiate laughter as an exercise in a group, but with eye contact and childlike playfulness, it soon turns into real and contagious laughter.

Laughter Yoga can be a great way to improve exam results develop children’s emotional intelligence, develop young people’s self confidence and improve motivation and energy levels.

HEALTH & WELLBEING PSHE

Children and young people spend about a third of their time at school, making the importance on the health and well being of students relevant. Big Comedy Shop can assist your school in delivering creative workshops/courses on young people’s issues. Here are some of the topics we cover – however we can create bespoke workshops if needed.

Bullying

Peer pressure

Drug awareness

Sexual exploitation

Sex education

Sexual health

Body Image

Motivational speeches

Alternative to violence

We make these sessions fun, high energy and practical by using comedy drama. Our sessions focus on the emotional well being of young people and we explore how mental and physical health can affect everyone. All of our workshops are designed to support the work carried out as part of the PSHE curriculum.

For young women’s workshops please CLICK HERE to see our Youth Services Pages

DRAMA, BTEC & GCSE

Big Comedy Shop tutors are made up of professionals from the performing arts industry who also have years of experience working with young people. Our tutors are a range of professional actors, entrepreneurs, comedy and stand up performers and script writers. Big Comedy Shop also runs a Comedy and Acting School in South Manchester where we regularly produce comedy drama live and filmed productions with our students aged between 6 and 18 years old.

BCS can assist your drama department and work with GCSE or B-Tech groups on any of the following:

Acting coaching with professional actors – followed by a Q&A session about the reality of working in the industry.

Comedy– how to use your acting skills in making a comedy piece. How powerful comedy can be whilst exploring more serious themes. History of British Comedy. (quote)

Inspire devised pieces (comedy and drama)

Character building

The art of improvisation

Making Shakespeare fun

How to break into acting

What it takes to start a business within the arts (taken by founders of Big Comedy Shop)

PAST PROJECTS

Comedy workshops –building confidence, team building, encouraging creative expression

Roald Dahl - exploring use of comedy in Dahl’s books

Tudor workshop – exploring Tudor times using comedy and drama based exercise on how they lived in Tudor times

Exploring Victorian England through comedy

Improvisation workshop inspiring devised pieces for year 10 B-Tech Drama students

Producing a filmed comedy sketch show

Studying the theme of W.A.G.S and what impact they have on young people

Creating a character – working GCSE Drama students

Who we have worked with

· West Nottinghamshire College, Nottingham
· Chorlton High School, Manchester
· Chorlton Arts Festival, Manchester
· Parrswood High School, Manchester
· Cedar Mount High School, Manchester (teacher training session)
· Byrchall High School, Wigan
· Chorlton Park Primary, Manchester
· Offerton High School, Stockport
· Rolls Cresant Primary, Manchester
· St Mary’s Primary, Manchester
· St Wilfred’s Primary, Manchester
· Brookburn Primary, Manchester
· Cavendish Primary, Manchester
· Stretford High School, Manchester

TESTIMONIALS

David Prophet
Assistant Head Teacher & Director of Arts College

Chorlton High School

"We booked Big Comedy Shop to deliver their Comedy Connections workshop as part of ChorltonHigh School's provision for our feeder Primaries as part
of Chorlton Arts Festival. The workshop was excellent - carefully
planned, appropriate for the age range and most importantly lots and lots
of fun for all of the students and staff.

The workshop aimed to build students' confidence as well as their comedy
skills; it delivered on both counts and much more. By the end of the 1
hour session every single person in the workshop had performed with confidence and enthusiasm, and all left with smiles on their faces. Much of this was thanks to the well pitched content and the energetic and dynamic approach of the workshop leaders. We were all delighted, and by the end of the session were discussing next year's booking!"

Lizzie Wray

Assistant Head Teacher, Chorlton Park Primary School

“Big Comedy Shop came to our school to deliver a day of comedy based workshops on the Tudors for our year 4 students. The drama workshops were really well planned and fitted with many areas of the curriculum. The children and staff enjoyed them and the outcomes were a real enthusiasm for our topic work on the Tudors. Big Comedy shop tackled some serious issues but showed that learning can be fun. Thank you."