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Willy Russell - Our Day Out: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE - 9781408134856 - 9781408134856
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Our Day Out: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE

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Description for Our Day Out: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE Paperback. Willy Russell's new (2009) version of his classic play is guaranteed to engage a whole new generation of readers. This edition features extensive classroom activities designed to raise achievement and develop critical thinking, making it ideal for KS3 and 4. Editor(s): Gunton, Mark. Series: Critical Scripts. Num Pages: 160 pages, 3 b&w photos. BIC Classification: 4KHN; 4KHT; YNDS; YQC; YQE. Category: (ES) Secondary. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 164. Willy Russell

This revised version of Willy Russell's much loved play won rave reviews when it opened in Liverpool in 2009. Slightly updated and featuring more songs, it retains all the humour and appeal of the original.

This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series:

  • meets the new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010)
  • features detailed, structured ... Read more
  • places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities
  • will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3
  • will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.

Mrs Kay's Progress Class are off to Alton Towers - until Mr Briggs gets on board. The destination might have changed in this new version of Willy Russell's classic play, but mixing humour, lively songs and the poignancy of the original, this drama of a class day out to remember is ideal for Year 9 and above.

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Product Details

Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Series
Critical Scripts
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408134856
SKU
9781408134856
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1

About Willy Russell
Liverpool playwright Willy Russell is a National Curriculum approved author whose play Blood Brothers is a set text at GCSE. Mark Gunton is a head of English in Derbyshire.

Reviews for Our Day Out: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE
'Willy Russell's big- hearted musical... never loses sight of the social problems that beset the children at its down-at-heel Liverpool comprehensive.'
Sam Marlowe, The Times, 10.09.10
'Willy Russell's hilarious, high energy musical'
Chris Riches, Daily Express, 10.09.10
'It's an endearing tale of growing pains and the gloomy realism of kind- hearted class teacher Mrs Kay'
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Goodreads reviews for Our Day Out: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE


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