The Arts provides us all with the unique ability to develop communication skills and moral, social awareness, to inspire self-expression and creativity, to instil a sense of self-confidence, self-esteem, achievement and identity, as well as the opportunity to develop an understanding and empathy towards others and the world around us.

We are very proud of the work we do with children and young people, fostering the talent of an amazing generation of artists and audiences.

Why drama?

What’s so good about the arts anyway? Why should I join, or send my child, to your drama groups? What do participants learn and what’s the point? How is drama even relevant to me or my child? Does someone need to have had experience to be able to join and is it like drama in schools? Is drama and the arts really for everyone?

Our classes are created using Bunbury Banter’s many years of experience in both making professional work and nearly a decade of designing, teaching and facilitating arts based subjects for people of all ages.

Our learning ethos is focused on the holistic approach, meaning that each class is unique and created around the individuals involved. All our classes are delivered by trained theatre professionals and use methods rooted in a balance between technique, knowledge and above all, fun.

The cultural learning alliance: the arts empower children and improve life chances

• Cultural learning alliance, key research findings: the value of cultural learning, 2017
• Participation in structured arts activities can increase cognitive abilities by 17%.
• Learning through arts and culture can improve attainment in maths and english.
• Learning through arts and culture develops skills and behaviour that lead children to do better in school.
• Students from low-income families who take part in arts activities at school are three times more likely to get a degree.
• Employability of students who study arts subjects is higher and they are more likely to stay in employment.
• Students from low-income families who engage in the arts at school are twice as likely to volunteer.
• Students from low-income families who engage in the arts at school are 20% more likely to vote as young adults.
• Young offenders who take part in arts activities are 18% less likely to re-offend.
• Children who take part in arts activities in the home during their early years are ahead in reading and maths at age nine.
• People who take part in the arts are 38% more likely to report good health.

Read the key research findings in full at: https://culturallearningalliance.org.uk/evidence/

“Arts education is not a luxury, it’s a necessity. It’s really the air many of these kids breathe. It’s how we get kids excited about getting up and going to school in the morning. It’s how we get them to take ownership of their future.”

– Michelle Obama, Honorary Chair, President’s Committee on the Arts & the Humanities, 2009–2016