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Joe Gladwin is a highly experienced workshop leader and teacher. He is equally at home working with infant classes in simple puppet making to training students and actors at professional level in puppet theatre development and manipulation.

Workshops include puppet making, shadow plays, miniature theatre and all related areas and can be tailored from a short talk to professional courses lasting a week.

Joe Gladwin has recently formed a professional partnership with Sarah Richards, a highly experienced and well regarded nursery school and early year's teacher.

With their combined skills in puppetry and education, Joe and Sarah are offering an exciting and imaginative new selection of workshops aimed at children in reception and years 1–3. These will include projects planned around the current curriculum and will be available from 2007. For all details on these new workshops please contact contact Joe.

Useful Information

Joe Gladwin offers the following educational projects and workshops, which have been particularly developed for schools and special interest groups:

Project Title: (1) Make your own Toy Theatre (2) Make your own Rod Puppet (3) Make your own Marionette (4) Make your own Shadow Puppet
Timescale: A full day 3 hrs (variable) 10 hrs 3 hrs
Maximum group size: Maximum 30 students Maximum 30 students Maximum 30 students Maximum 30 students
Age range:

6 yrs & upwards 6 yrs & upwards 8 yrs & upwards 6 yrs & upwards
Materials required: Cardboard cartons, A4 & A3 paper, sheets of card the thickness of cereal packets, coloured papers eg: wrapping paper, thin plastic shopping bags, newspaper, masking tape, Pritt sticks & or white glue, string, colouring pens, paints, crayons, (any medium), scissors Cardboard cartons, A4 & A3 paper, sheets of card the thickness of cereal packets, coloured papers eg: wrapping paper, thin plastic shopping bags, newspaper, masking tape, Pritt sticks & or white glue, string, colouring pens, paints, crayons, (any medium), scissors

Materials for a Marionette workshop: Thin card, PVA glue, masking tape, string, tissue paper, bamboo, paper clips, paper fasteners, felt pens, paint, corrugated card, pencils, glue sticks, newspaper, scissors, nappy sacks, cotton tape, lollypop sticks Materials for a Shadow Puppet workshop: Coloured cellophane, wire, paper fasteners, gardening canes, rag-bag bits and pieces, glue sticks, scissors, sellotape, clear acetate sheets for OHP work, an OHP, a room with blackout curtains or blinds. Paperplays can supply a small shadow puppet screen
Some questions: Criminal Records Bureau – Enhanced Disclosure Certificate (2005)
- Yes
Public Liability Insurance – up to £5 million
- Yes
Would the school need to provide the materials?
- Yes


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