Playful Spaces: The Classroom as Rehearsal Room

How can creativity engage learners and reintroduce joy to your teaching practice?

This summer, join us for the inaugural ‘Playful Spaces’ – a dynamic, one-day CPD designed to ignite creativity, spark joy, inspire collaboration, and transform teaching.

Bringing together leading theatre-makers, teachers and creative practitioners, this groundbreaking CPD event will explore bold new ways to make learning more engaging, equitable and impactful.

Through interactive workshops, expert-led discussions, and hands-on masterclasses, we’ll uncover the power of collaboration in the classroom – unlocking fresh approaches to creativity, enriching the arts, and reshaping education for the next generation.

Be part of the movement. Let’s learn, create, and play... together

Key Information:

• Date: Saturday 12th July 2025
• Venue: Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, Peckham, London
• Participants: Teachers, educators, and theatre makers
• Workshops, masterclasses, discussions & networking

Playful Spaces aims to instil joy, ignite creativity and enable participants to learn with and from one another, giving participants the chance to:

• Develop new skills they can immediately apply in the classroom or rehearsal room
• Experience active, creative learning from leading industry voices
• Build a professional network of like-minded educators and practitioners
• Explore collaboration as a key driver of student engagement and achievement

Why are we doing it?

When young people engage in the expressive arts, they’re more likely to feel that they belong, that they can build connections with their peers, and raise aspirations for their future. All too often these opportunities are squeezed out of the school day and pupils facing structural disadvantage are the ones that lose out.

So how can we find new opportunities to get this practice into the classroom?

Playful Spaces will make the case that it is essential for all schools and educators to prioritise creativity for good. Inspired by Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation’s 2030 strategy ‘All the World’s Our Stage’, we are starting a movement to ensure that young people have the chance to build the oracy, essential skills and confidence they need to succeed in life.

We will hear from collaborators how creative learning and the expressive arts can become more inclusive, more available and more equitable. The CPD event will explore tools for teachers to support young people to build connections and engagement with learning, and develop their confidence, resilience and wellbeing in the process.

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Who is contributing?

• Professor Bill Lucas, Global thought leader on creativity in learning
• Simon Trinder, Actor and text consultant at Shakespeare’s Globe
• Jordana Golbourn, Director and facilitator with the Almeida, Donmar Warehouse, and Young Vic
• Matthew Xia, Director e.g., Skeleton Crew (Donmar Warehouse); The Architect (GDIF/ATC/Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation); Tambo & Bones (ATC/Theatre Royal Stratford East) and more.




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