THE STARS ON STAGE DRAMA SUMMER CAMP 2019

Duration: 2 weeks
Times: from 930am – 5pm
Suitable for students: 7-14 years Old
Date: June/ July 2019

Give your kids a head start in English this SUMMER with our International English Performing Arts Camp in Singapore. We have recruited a team of experienced ESL teachers and Performing Arts experts, who will be leading exciting workshops for our Singaporean students throughout the two weeks programme. Speech, drama, dance and music workshops, will create a fun and holistic learning environment where English can be learnt and reinforced through dramatic arts. This camp is a chance for foreign students to learn with Singaporean students throughout the course in a truly awesome immersion experience. At the end of the programme a presentation on stage based on the play Jungle Book will be prepared. Those children who complete the full course will receive a certificate of achievement from MasterHand Learning Asia Pacific LLP.

AIMS:

Interpret Dramatic Literature of The Jungle Book
Explore English through Drama & Performance Arts
Gain the confidence to perform on stage
Plan, design their own performance and materials alongside Singaporean Students
Empower students as citizens of the global community as they form life-long friendships with our Singaporean students

Daily Drama Programme Workshop Schedule: runs Monday to Friday

TIMES	ACTIVITY SCHEDULE
930-10am	MORNING ASSEMBLY – SINGING
10.00-11.00	Speech & Music – Oral Workshop In this module students will learn to recite rhymes, poems and songs about animals related to the story Jungle Book. Students will be trained to speak with appropriate intonation and will learn to sustain vocal power throughout a recitation. Trainers will also coach students on their understanding of narration in performance. We will incorporate advanced phonics and phonetics to hone students’ pronunciation. We will use elements of pragmatics to teach students conversational skills.
11.00-12.00	Drama Workshop In the drama programme students will study dramatic texts related to Jungle Book. Students will learn to role play dialogue sequences and learn dramatic techniques such as role play, mime & tableaux and creative movement. Students will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of the text through their own dramatic reenactment of various scenes. Students will have the opportunity to work in small groups with fellow Singaporean students using multimodal tools including puppetry and animation to aid their creative interpretation of literature.
12.00-13.00	Dance In the dance workshop, students will be expected to master three dance routines based on the song Roar, Can’t Stop This Feeling and I Wanna Be Like You. Students will learn to move expressively, count to a beat of 8 and execute their steps with precision and confidence.
13.00-14.00	LUNCH
14.00-14.30	Afternoon Assembly
14.30-15.30	Performance Arts Students will have the chance to make their own costume crafts to be used in the performance at the end of the programme. Crafts will include masks, head bands, capes, claws, animal prints, jungle crafts etc.
15.30-17.00	Performance Training In the final session of the day students will work in small groups to map out and rehearse for their performance. A trainer will be allocated to work with each group and help them develop good stage presence, audience awareness skills and perfect their execution of English. Students will be aware of the learning goals for Language and Performance in which they will be assessed on at the end of the programme.

LANGUAGE GOALS

Pronunciation: Speak audibly and clearly, pronouncing phonemes in words accurately using correct tongue placement
Application: Refine speech through exposure to varied oral application – poetry, prose, rhymes, rap, dialogue reading.
Intonation – Able to punctuate speech using punctuation markers showing good vocal variety skills while being sensitive to technical equipment like microphones/ sound system
Show understanding and convey meaning through speech and by making appropriate movement responses and expressions.

PERFORMANCE GOALS

Demonstrate refined oratorical skills appropriate to audience/ type of dramatic text performed.
Develop appropriate body language skills to heighten expressive presentation
Stand and deliver performance with good posture appropriate to character/ role
Show audience awareness skills
Learn to perform using chosen application method ie mime, dance, song and or dramatization through dialogue
Utilizing expressive movement and mime to explore personal understanding and interest in texts and materials used.

ABOUT MASTERHAND

MasterHand Learning Asia Pacific is a language enrichment specialist based in Singapore. Since our incorporation in 2007, MasterHand runs a student development centre catering to Singaporean and overseas students. We currently have 90 students attending our afternoon study programme each weekday. Our students are mostly Singaporean students attending MOE public schools, but we also have a small number of international students from Asian countries such as Indonesia, China, South Korea, Malaysia and The Philippines.

We provide overseas students in the Asia Pacific region with drama-based English enrichment programmes and Summer camp experiences with a goal to improve children’s communication skills in ‘speaking English’. Our courses are designed according to the needs of students from different English learning backgrounds. We aim to build students’ proficiency in English language through engaging programmes and immersion experiences whereby foreign students can meet, socialize and learn with Singaporean students of a similar age and or level of English. Currently our English and Drama programmes have been running in as many as 15 schools in Singapore and 5 schools in China since 2010.