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What is the drama?
When young people to become directly involved with the process of making theatre and exploring the dramatic process, they are allowed to take that engagement even further:
It stimulates their creativity
It helps them make sense of their emotions;

It develops their ability to understand
It allows them to face their fears in a safe environment
It challenges their preconceptions about the world in which they live.

It helps them interrogate their world; see it as a 3D place
It develops their aesthetic sense
It develops their language and communication skills and

It introduces new ideas to them and allows them to express opinions about them
 
In short, the performing arts provide an immediate, intimate and exciting way to have a discussion with children about their place in this world, about their lives and the lives of others.

This means that providing live theatre and drama based activities contributes directly to the delivery of the SEAL initiative.
‘Five Hours of Culture’
This is the Government’s ambition to give young people in England the chance to experience high quality arts and culture. It will give young people the chance to discover and develop their talents with the intention, ultimately, to offer children five hours of arts and culture a week, in and outside of the school day.

This will include the chance to:

perform on stage and attend top quality performances;

attend exhibitions at museums and galleries, and heritage sites;
get hands-on experience of the creative industries including film making, radio and TV;
learn a musical instrument, and take part in a musical performance in front of an audience;
produce creative writing and appreciate authors and how they work;
learn about - and practise – new media and digital art; and develop art and craft skills.
Why is theatre so important?
Theatre is a medium through which we can go to new places, real and imaginary; live life in other people’s shoes and see the world through other people’s eyes. It is a two-way process between the performers and the audience, and invites the audience to use their imagination to engage with the story and take part on the journey.
 
‘Creative Curriculum’
The DfES report All Our Futures argues that to meet the challenges of the 21st century there is a need to nurture a creative curriculum that “develops young people’s capacities for original ideas and action”.

Creativity is about:
 • connecting: seeing relationships and combining in new ways
 • risking: having the self-confidence and freedom to fail and keep trying
 • envisaging: being original and imaginative about what might be
 • analysing: asking critical and challenging questions
 • thinking: taking time for reflection and soft thinking
 • interacting: sharing ideas and collaborating
 • varying: testing options and trying in different ways
 • elaborating: exploring and fiddling and doing the unnecessary with love!
 www.ncsl.org.uk/media/762/D0/Lifting-the-lid-on-the-creative-curriculum-summary.pdf
SEAL - Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning
 This initiative covers 5 broad areas of learning:
Self awareness
Empathy
Managing feelings
Motivation
Social skills

 SEAL states that it is important to develop these aspects of learning in the curriculum because.....
They underlie almost every aspect of our lives.
They enable us to be effective learners.
They enable us to get on with other people.
They enable us to be responsible citizens.

This is why delivering appropriately written live theatre to schools can be such a major step forward.