Crime & Punishment Workshop
Past Productions Education LTD
School Workshop Online Workshop
Our Crime & Punishment workshop has been designed to cover a broad topic base. Teachers love to book us because we offer a wide breadth of activities, including; drama, artefacts, real-life accounts, and debates around important topics. If you are focusing on any particular aspect of Crime & Punishment through history, let us know! We will always try to include any specifics where possible (time-permitting). This bespoke aspect comes at no extra cost to our regular workshops.We send in a fully costumed character to deliver the workshop to the students giving maximum impact. Teachers often email us to let us know that the children still talk about the workshops after our visits, and the quality of the work they produce when following up in the classroom.
We send in costumed characters to run our days. For Crime & Punishment, they will get to meet our Executioner. By the end of the day the children will have a greater depth of understanding about how Crimes and Punishments have changed over time.
Lots of teachers love us specifically because we focus a lot on Oracy (through drama). We believe in building confidence for every child and take great pride in sometimes being the first people to help some children open up and find their own inner voice to be able to share in front of others.
When we have more than one class for the day, we run a round-robin of activities with us running some and teachers running the other so the children get a fully immersive day.
Current special offers for school groups
Local Schools Offering
Our cheapest prices are for schools closest to us. We are based on the Wirral, so advantageous pricing is given to schools on the Wirral, in Chester and the Liverpool area.
valid until: August 2027
Multiple Workshop Discounts
We offer discounts if multiple bookings are made for the same academic year. Bookings must be made at the same time, so we do advise if you have a history co-ordinator to have a chat with them to see if we can help fill any gaps in the history curriculum that you currently have.
valid until: August 2027
New School
If you are a new school to us and you've had other quotes from providers, we promise to match any quote or beat it by upto 10% if we're able to. We do pride ourselves on having some of the most best value prices out there.
valid until: August 2027
Where we travel to
We can visit your school in: East Midlands, West Midlands, London & South East, East of England, South West, North East, North West, Yorkshire, Wales, Scotland
What activities are available during this school workshop?
We also cover the following topics:
Crime & Punishment
Egyptians
Fairy Tales
Great Fire of London
Greeks
Kitty Wilkinson (Local History to Liverpool)
Kings & Queens
Knights & Castle
Mayans
The Plague
Romans
Stone Age to Iron Age
Tudors
Victorians
Vikings
World War I
World War II
Crime & Punishment
Egyptians
Fairy Tales
Great Fire of London
Greeks
Kitty Wilkinson (Local History to Liverpool)
Kings & Queens
Knights & Castle
Mayans
The Plague
Romans
Stone Age to Iron Age
Tudors
Victorians
Vikings
World War I
World War II
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Medieval Workshop
Medieval Society and Feudalism
The students will use our medieval torture artefacts to help further their knowledge of the topic. They will then re-enact a series of medieval crimes, illustrating their punishments to the audience to help embed the learning of how different crimes were dealth with.
Victorian
>Elizabethans
>Romans
>Saxons
>Vikings
>What size groups do we cater for?
We can accommodate groups of up to 90 children. With 90 children, some parts of the day will be spent all together, whilst other parts will be split with facilitator-led activities and teacher-led activities (we provide) that can be used when the children are not with the facilitator.
If you have any particular wishes or questions regarding group sizes, drop us a message.
If you have any particular wishes or questions regarding group sizes, drop us a message.
Groups with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)
Learning & communication
SEND-friendly workshopsBehaviour & flexibility
Individual needs discussed before visitFlexible activity pace
Flexible scheduling
Staff support
Risk assessment availablePre-visit planning available
Staff experienced with SEND groups
We try to tailor all of our workshops to the needs of the audience that we are presenting too. For any schools that have any profound learning needs, we do request a phone call so that we can assess the needs and that what we can offer is going to be suitable and accessible for the majority. Some things that we can do are:
- Simplify Activities (e.g. instead of drama where the students split into groups, we do activities as a whole group that reinforces either the stories or information that is conveyed in the original material).
- Meet participants beforehand to go over any costume changes / day activities
- Send things in advance to be put into Braille or simplified/checked by teachers for appropriateness for their cohort
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Anything else?
If you have any specific requests for your workshop, please let us know in advance. We will always try to accommodate your wishes where we can (time and resources permitting).
Who are Past Productions Education LTD?
We provide historical workshops for schools nationwide in the UK. We come to your school and bombard the students with a variety of activities (including drama, quizzes, artefacts, costumes and creative writing). We believe in the power of drama to bring learning to life - this underpins all of our workshops and planning.
Our aim is to immerse the students and give them an overall understanding for the topic. We have been used to kick-start, reinforce or to celebrate the end of the topic with a consolidation of their learning journey for this topic.
We source our artefacts from unique locations where possible and allow the students to handle what we bring in with us.
Every enquiry gives you a chance to win trips and workshops for your school - We are giving away a free trip for every week of the Autumn term!
