Primary Schools Tours
Scottish Opera's annual Primary Schools Tour is one of our longest established and most popular education programmes with around 10,000 children accessing the performances each year. Each tour helps teachers all over Scotland deliver aspects of A Curriculum for Excellence for P5 to P7 pupils. As well as making learning exciting, challenging and creative, it allows up to 100 pupils to participate in a high quality, day-long music theatre workshop.
Each school that participates in a tour receives:
· High quality teaching resources, including a teaching pack and CD to help teach
and introduce the music and related activities.
· An advance visit from a specialist choral musician.
· A day-long workshop with a team of highly experienced arts education specialists
and performers.
· A 30 minute performance for family, friends and schoolmates to share, with full technical
Primary Schools Tours 2012
The Big Bang Show!
Music by Marion Christie
Lyrics by Ross Stenhouse
The Big Bang Show! takes performers on a whistle-stop tour of the creation of the universe and explores the wonderful world of ENERGY. Three groups represent the different types of energy - wind, water and sun, fossil fuels and nuclear power. Each led by their own champions, they debate which is best, until Gaia (Mother Earth) points out that unless humans begin to take real reponsibilty for their use of fossil and nuclear powers, the Earth will die. She urges them to learn the lessons of natural powers while there is still time...
Download the Teaching Pack and Full Score for The Big Bang Show.
Spring 2012 - 23 January to 30 March
Summer 2012 - 16 April to 22 June
Primary Schools Tours 2013
Slim McBride and the Legend of the Lost Tribe
Music by Alan Penman
Lyrics by Allan Dunn
Join adventurer Slim McBride in an action-packed tale featuring the wonderful and exotic people, plants, birds and animals of the South American rainforests - large areas of which are under increasing threat from the modern world.
The children are encouraged to ask crucial questions about the future of these magnificent forests, the eco-system that depends on them and why it is so important that they be protected for the benefit of us all. A perfect springboard into a range of subjects including Personal and Social Development, Citizenship, Geography and Expressive Arts.
Spring 2013 - January to March
Summer 2013 - April to June
Look out for a new commission in 2014! Details coming soon...
