AROUND THE SCHOOL: NEW VIEWS PLAYWRITING CLUB In the New Views playwriting group, individually we are working toward producing a thirty page piece of playwriting to enter in a competition with the National Theatre. Once a fortnight, we meet after school to learn about different aspects of theatre and different playwriting techniques - then take that knowledge home and apply it to our work. For instance, one week we studied armatures, and used that to help us structure our plays and another week we studied staging, so that we could try and envisage how our play would look. The group is made up of 14 students, a mixture of Year 9s and Year 10s, led by English Teacher, Miss Lynes. We get on really well, due to our shared love of reading, writing and watching plays, and it is really fun as we all get to help and inspire each other with new ideas and encouragement. As part of New Views, we have also been given the opportunity to visit the National Theatre and watch a play called Ballet Shoes. At the start of the program, we were visited by a professional playwright who delivered a workshop that aimed to build our understanding of theatre and inspire us to build an image in our heads of what we wanted our plays to be about, what message we
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