Singing, music and drama

English Chamber Orchestra and Royal College of Music projects

One Sun One World is the central focus of inspiration for the ECO's Close Encounters programme of music and drama workshops.

The overarching ethos is to reconnect the children through the powerful voice of performance and the creative process of music, movement and drama with their planet; its fragility, its beauty, its worth and the ways in which they can effect change in its sustainability into the future. 

The creative music and drama projects were run by the English Chamber Orchestra and Royal College of Music were offered over four weeks, culminating in a performance within the school.

The workshops had the following characteristics: 

• Whole class involvement in music and drama
• Dividing into smaller groups for creative purposes 
• Development of material over the 4 or 5 weeks
• Playing classroom percussion instruments
• Acting and movement
• Singing
• Contributing to a Project Diary
• Simple costume design
• Cross-curricular activities are encouraged

The themes covered included:

• Pandas in the Lost City
• Sura and the Polar Bears
• Pandas in the Lost City
• The journey of Cacao

You can...

• Find out about the schools' music and drama projects