Magical Circus offers circus skills workshops for primary schools, Scouts, Guides, children's Birthday parties, community weekly circus workshops and any other private or corporate events.
We can provide:
In primary and secondary schools our workshops
can be arranged to start with a 30 minute school assembly
performance by Melanie and Angelo, which includes a range
of 17 different circus skills from juggling to
stilt walking to tight-wire walking with lots of fun and
laughter throughout.
This performance enables all the children to see a
variety of circus skills that are available and inspires
them to try and learn.
Absolutely awesome day!
Melanie and Angelo provided our children with an absolutely awesome day!
Our Year 2 children were engaged
throughout the whole day - being effectively
taught and then getting to practise, with
support, a range of circus skills.
Smiles were on our faces the whole day day, including
at the end when they organised a chance for
parents to see what the children had achieved!
We would definitely recommend- why visit the circus
when you can be part of it!
Bev Ellett - Assistant Headteacher at St Paul's (Astley Bridge) Church of England Primary School Newnham Street, Bolton.
Our circus workshops for young children provide skills suitable for their age and ability thus developing their:
- hand-eye coordination
- grasping
- throwing and catching skills
- balancing
- and concentration
Skills involved include juggling scarves and simple ball juggling tricks, balancing plates, feathers and sticks, juggling ring tricks, monster feet and small hand-held stilts.
Young children have fun trying out new skills, learning without realizing and building their confidence in the process.
Our circus workshops for primary school
children in KS1 and KS2 can be linked to the
circus topic in the curriculum or provided as a
reward, treat or experience.
Writing about the circus, drawing and arts,
concepts like patterns, motor coordination and
social development concepts like 'practising
makes perfect' are transferred and encouraged
at all times in our circus sessions.
We understand how important it is to support
every child when learning a new skill, so we
make sure everyone gets included irrelevant of
their age or ability and we aim to spent time
teaching, correcting and guiding each child on
a one to one basis during this process. So we
move about a lot!
We love seeing children, young people and adults' faces light up when they achieve a trick that seemed impossible to them before.
Sesssions are organised throughout the school day, days or week according to the number of children or classes involved and can be concluded with Assembly Demonstrations by the children to which parents can be invited or for the full week with a Special Mini Circus Show by Kuki & Krums the clowns for a fun treat.
Older children and young adults can often grasp the basic circus skills faster, therefore we provide them with a greater variety of skills and tricks within each session.
Our normal 1 hour sessions provides 4 different circus skills:
- 3 ball juggling
- Plate spinning
- Diabolo
- Hand-held stilt walking
With longer sessions many students show
great ability and so we fastrack them to more
complex skills like juggling clubs and
hand-free stilt walking.
We can also provide sessions for smaller number
of students, with skills like unicycling or
tight-wire walking which require more one to
one time per pupil. These sessions work well as
a treat for talented and gifted students or a
reward for good effort and hard work!
Circus skills in older children and young adults can become a passion for life and we at Magical Circus love to see that!
Ideal numbers of participants for a constructive circus workshop session.
It is extremely important for us to be able to observe, correct and guide each pupil individually while they are trying to learn a new circus skill. We therefore cater for 30 pupils per session, dividing them into two groups, 15 pupils per instructor and in this way we can focus better on guiding them all to success.
For schools for special needs children / young adults and children / young adults with learning difficulties we recommend smaller groups. However, for mainstream schools with special needs children / young adults and children / young adults with learning difficulties, supporting staff within the workshop session is adequate and will not affect the numbers catered for.
We can cater for slightly more than 30 pupils per session for structured workshops in large schools, so please do not hesitate to contact us with details.