A new half day participatory TIE programme for years 3 and 4.

"A Shepherd Boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, wanted some amusement during the long days he spent on the hillside guarding his sheep. So he decided to play a joke on his neighbours…"

So Aesop's fable goes. The consequences are disastrous. 'There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth’' is the moral of the story. So the child will be punished for his crime, condemned to further isolation, and the community has someone to blame.

But why did no one take the time to stop and ask why the Shepherd Boy cried “wolf”? What is the community’s responsibility for the child? When does individual conscience become a collective responsibility and vice versa?

Using story and drama with a team of highly skilled child centred actor-teachers the young people will step into the Shepherd Boy’s world.

An opportunity to develop thinking skills - of enquiry, communication and reasoning, speaking and listening - this programme will use the power of story to liberate your class to use the imagination to reason empathically, independently and socially, and above all to test and make their own values.

Big Brum is internationally renowned for its work with and for young people of all ages.

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February to July 2008
To book please contact:
Claire Procter, Big Brum Theatre-in-Education, Pegasus Infant and Junior School, Turnhouse Road, Castle Vale, Birmingham, B35 6PR.
Tel: 0121 4644607 Mob: 07533 553403 Fax: 0121 4644605 E-mail: claire@bigbrum.plus.com