Welcome to Pintsize Theatre Podcasts!
Patron: Dr. Geoffrey Readman
Pintsize Theatre Ltd (Reg charity no: 1142448) is an award-winning theatre in education company from Nottingham, England established in 1998. Since September 2020 we have moved from live, touring theatre to providing online resources to support pastoral care and promote age appropriate, evidence based critical thinking skills in Years 6 - 11. All content on this site is in line with DfE guidelines and the result of 28 years of research with schools, safeguarding agencies and charities in our area. Testimonials relating to all our previous work, can be found in the TIE Archive section of this website.
Please note that all subscription payments detailed below, as of June 2024, are now voluntary. We very much appreciate newly subscribing schools financially supporting this website with a ‘one off’ charitable contribution - it enables us to create new work and cover our running costs - but payment is no longer mandatory.
24/7 access to all our resources is now free to all schools and full parent/carer access remains free, on request.
Financial support for our charity is still very welcome and we do hope new school subscribers might take the suggested ‘one off’ contributions, detailed below, into consideration.
Writer/director Ian Court on first day of Podcast recording - September 2020
SITE CONTENTS
See the Teachers' Notes - ESSENTIAL VIEWING video
There are two LIFETIME MEMBERSHIP subscription packages available. If you wish to make a contribution to our charity, an invoice will be sent to the school's lead contact, once the subscription is requested. Once joined, UNLIMITED ADDITIONAL USERS from the school's teaching staff, can add themselves FOR FREE.
N.B. Subscriptions cover UNLIMITED USAGE AND LIFETIME ACCESS TO THE RESOURCES FOR SCHOOL AND STAFF.
Primary Schools Membership Plan
SUGGESTED PAYMENT £95 ( NO VAT APPLICABLE) ‘ONE OFF’ LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION PAYMENT
6 podcasts (all Year 6)
For further details and to join, press here
Secondary Schools Membership Plan
SUGGESTED PAYMENT £295 ( NO VAT APPLICABLE) ‘ONE OFF’ LIFETIME SUBSCRIPTION PAYMENT
14 podcasts plus 1 film (Year 7 – 11)
For further details and to join, press here
Subscriptions cover unlimited staff access over the lifetime of the school.
All payments are voluntary.
Contact ian@pintsizetheatre.co.uk for payment details and invoice.
Each podcast is accompanied by:
- a resource pack to promote further investigation of the issues raise
- a podcast script
- staff and student response sheet
- a ‘JUST THE PLAY’ version of the recording with audience interaction and ‘stop watch ticking‘ edited out
All our podcasts have already been trialed as live, interactive drama workshops and are in full accordance with current DfE guidelines. New podcasts will be added at no extra cost.
Our ‘JUST THE PLAY’ option offers a much shorter ‘narrative only’ alternative for teachers delivering the podcasts who might wish to keep all discussion until after the story has been fully told. PLEASE NOTE: schools may wish to consider using this version, not only to support pastoral care but also in curriculum areas such as English and/or Drama.
AIMS
Pintsize Theatre’s aims in supporting pastoral care in schools, follow current DfE guidelines and objectives. We also specifically intend to promote evidence based, critical thinking across the curriculum and to:
- foster enhanced insight and resilience in avoiding and coping with risks to health and safety, too often encountered in the modern world.
- help older children and teenagers gain a contextualized, rather than underestimated or exaggerated sense of what constitutes ‘risk’.
- foster healthy scepticism in relation to received values.
- assist older children and teenagers to become aware of pathways to help and support within the family and school environment.
Please contact ian@pintsizetheatre.co.uk for further details.