Abbie Moore

Escape the Classroom! Exploring Hello Drama’s English-language escape room workshops

Audience focus: Teachers of adolescent learners

Abstract

You'll leave this session with an insight into the escape room style theatre workshops that Hello Drama’s British facilitators deliver in secondary schools across Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. You’ll experience the benefits of combining drama activities with an escape room concept to encourage even the shyest students to speak up. There are codes to crack, criminals to find and you never know, there may even be a saboteur amongst us! This will be an active workshop in which participants will take part in some of the challenges themselves – after all, why should the students have all the fun? Laughter is pretty much guaranteed…

Biography

Abbie designs and delivers creative English-language workshops for secondary schools students learning English as a second language. In the last 3 academic years, Abbie has worked with over 10,000 students in their own classrooms across Belgium and Luxembourg. Hello Drama's workshops range from theatre improvisation and Shakespeare to escape room style sessions about topics such as British food. There's something for every English class!