School Residencies

Our School Residency programme is delivered across the academic year in two Brent Secondary schools. The residencies are co-designed with teachers to ensure we are delivering opportunities which are beneficial to the students and the contexts in which the schools are working in. The programme includes:

• Free tickets to all Kiln productions across the year
• Tailored workshops with the cast or creatives
• Backstage workshops & tours
• Set text and performance component workshops with industry professionals as part of our mission to support schools to use new texts and work, which are representative of the students and the global society in which they live
• Careers in the arts workshops
• Working with professional theatre makers on an 8-week project which will explore devising, writing or text work through which students will perform or see their work performed on stage by professional actors.
• Teacher’s CPD sessions

‘Having been working in education for a number of years… I have come across and experienced a variety of different projects with a variety of theatres. I can honestly say working with the Kiln this year has been different. The personal nature of this project makes it highly bespoke. The residency itself is wide ranging and truly gives students an insight into theatre and performance that they would not get from a classroom alone’ Residency Teacher 2024

This Schools programme has been developed from our Schools’ writing project which ran from 2021-2022, and in consultation with teachers and arts educators. In 2022-2023 the project ran with Harris Lowe Academy and Preston Manor School. The project is currently running with Whitefield School and Aplerton Community School until September 2025.