TAKE THE STAGE / EDUCATION
Practical communication training for pupils, students and teaching staff.
For PSHE leads helping children develop the confidence to contribute. For careers advisers preparing students to communicate what they can offer. For education leaders who recognise that how staff communicate matters too.
Take the Stage gives people opportunities to practise speaking, listening, responding and communicating clearly, with training tailored to their age, setting and needs.
Discuss training for your setting
SPACE TO SPEAK. TIME TO LISTEN.
A child can know the answer and still hold back from contributing it.
A student can have the skills for an opportunity and struggle to explain what they can do.
Being encouraged to speak confidently is a start. Having somewhere to practise is what helps people work on it.
Take the Stage uses drama, improvisation, storytelling, voice and performance to create those opportunities. Participants practise sharing ideas, listening to others, responding to questions and keeping going when the words don’t come out perfectly.
TAILORED TO THE SETTING
PRIMARY
For PSHE leads and primary teams looking to develop speaking, listening, collaboration and confidence to contribute.
Practical activities give children opportunities to explain their thinking, listen to another perspective, work together and find their voice within a group. Training is shaped around their age and the skills you want to focus on.
SECONDARY & SIXTH FORM
For careers advisers, careers leaders and school teams preparing young people for interviews, further study, employment and new situations.
Training can focus on presenting ideas, talking about strengths and experiences, responding to unfamiliar questions, public speaking and contributing to group discussions.
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
For careers and employability teams supporting students as they prepare for opportunities beyond their studies.
From interviews and presentations to networking and explaining an idea, participants practise communicating their knowledge, experience and thinking with clarity and presence.
COMMUNICATION FOR TEACHING STAFF
How we communicate shapes what happens in the classroom and across a staff team.
Teachers spend much of their day explaining, questioning, listening, responding and adapting. Their words, tone, body language and timing all play a part.
Alongside behaviour management training, there is value in giving staff time to practise communication itself: how they make an explanation clear, respond in a difficult moment, listen to a pupil or work through a difference with a colleague.
Take the Stage offers practical communication training for teaching staff, with space to explore:
Training can be shaped around the situations your staff encounter, giving them space to try different approaches and reflect on how their communication comes across.
THE TAKE THE STAGE METHOD
Use play and improvisation to let go of getting everything right. Listen, respond, adapt and practise thinking on your feet.
Explore voice, body language and presence. Practise speaking up and communicating without hiding behind perfect wording.
Understand what you really want to say. Shape your message, find the story and communicate it without becoming dependent on a script.
Put it into practice. Speak. Present. Record. Pitch. Share. Be seen and heard. Keep going when it isn’t perfect.
KNOW YOUR MESSAGE.
NOT YOUR SCRIPT.
AN EDUCATOR’S PERSPECTIVE
Theatre is the tool.
Communication is the focus.
Founder Zanya Sesay has worked as a teacher, was an Early Years Lead and also led Early Years across the schools within the academy trust. She now works as an Early Years Advisor within local government.
Teaching, facilitating and understanding how people learn have remained central throughout her career.
Her work began with PALS (Positive Attitude for Life), the drama school she established straight out of university, working across Kent. Take the Stage brings that theatre and facilitation experience together with her professional understanding of education.
Whether your focus is pupils, students or staff, tell us who the training is for and where communication needs to work better.
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