Saltmine Trust - Key Stage 1 & 2

A Long Road Home

Saltmine Theatre Company’s action-packed adventure brings the story of the Prodigal Son to life in an exciting and original way, and highlights the themes of forgiveness and worth.

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Welcome to Bert and Horace’s junkyard. They collect, curate and repurpose all the rubbish that the world doesn’t want.

One day Charlie turns up in their yard. She begins to tell them how she took her inheritance and left home to explore life in the big city. Charlie’s life was full of luxury with epic parties, rock star friends and even a pet chihuahua but this faded into nothing when the money disappeared. She is empty pocketed, feeling pretty worthless and a long, long way from home.

Through song, storytelling and laughter, Bert and Horace show Charlie that she is not as ‘rubbish’ as she thinks and help her to consider whether she could take the long road home back to her Dad.

COST

£650 + travel costs + VAT per day

DATES

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SUBJECT

Self-worth and forgiveness

SUITABILITY

Recommended school years 1-6

DURATION

60-minute performance and
45-minute workshop

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In Their Shoes

In Their Shoes is a unique production and workshop that celebrates and promotes unity in diversity and sensitively explores issues around extremism. A play written and produced with multi-faith partners, it is in itself an example of what can be achieved when different people come together and use their abilities for the same goal.

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The Spots and the Stripes have always hated one another for no real reason other than that they are different. After a particularly heated argument with a Spot, one Stripe is convinced that she must find people who can help her stand up to the Spot. However, as she searches she meets characters who tell her stories from different cultures and religions about how it is possible to get along, despite being different. As she listens, the Stripe is challenged to spend time in her neighbour’s shoes and see a potential friend, instead of an enemy.

COST

£650 + travel costs + VAT per day

DATES

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SUBJECT

British Values and unity in diversity

SUITABILITY

Recommended school years 1-6
(workshop suitable for 30-60 Key Stage 2 pupils)

DURATION

45-minute performance and
45-minute workshop

REQUIREMENTS

The show is performed centrally in a room or hall, with an audience on either side.
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Escape

An Internet safety play and interactive workshop that has been performed across the United Kingdom to over 100,000 children, Escape covers topics ranging from cyberbullying to the dangers of talking to strangers online.

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Sarah Thompson lives on the edge of an enchanted forest, and on her eleventh birthday she is allowed to enter for the first time on her own. She starts her adventure with the three rules that will keep her safe echoing in her ears, but there are wolves in the forest and when Sarah meets a stranger all is not as it seems. Will she remember the rules? Or will she leave the path and go her own way?

COST

£650 + travel costs + VAT per day

DATES

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SUBJECT

Internet safety

SUITABILITY

Recommended school years 2-6

DURATION

45-minute performance and
45-minute workshop

REQUIREMENTS

School hall floor with performance space: 5m x 5m x 4m (with no obstructions). Space needed around the edge of the hall for actors to run around the hall.
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Pupils' engagement with the issues highlighted in the play has led to pupils making changes to their security settings - something that parents and teachers alike have been telling them for a while, but they had not heeded the advice until after watching your production.

The production and the workshop which followed were excellent. The students have talked a lot about what they saw and how they felt about it. They have asked more questions about each other's online searches and discussed the dangers of believing everything you are told.

The British values were introduced in a fun way.

A great vehicle to reinforce key messages relating to online safety for children in key stage 2.

One of the Y6 girls confided in me that she was having a problem after she had seen their presentation. Her parents have, very wisely, involved the police and investigations are on-going. It seems very serious and it's a great relief that it came to light.

The performers were incredible in the way they got everyone involved. Emotions were experienced and added to the gravity of the message..

A Long Road Home

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In Their Shoes

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Escape

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