EDUCATIONAL WORKSHOPS

Samba School Enrichment Workshop for Sixth Form Open Day

Schools have booked Samba workshops previously during activities or enrichment week, to enhance the primary music curriculum and as part of wider cultural studies in Modern Foreign Languages and Humanities. In the workshops, the students learn to collaborate as a whole group, as we build on skills such as communication and confidence as each individual can see how their role fits into the ensemble. These transferable skills learnt through Samba drumming have been shown to help with self-efficacy and motivation as students gain new perspectives and different ways of working.

Educational Workshop Provider Lead Michael Grant

We offer a great range of workshops ranging from Reception all the way up to Sixth Form and beyond.

When we teach Samba, not only do we make it fun and energising, it also comes with added benefits from developing self confidence, communication skills to cross-curricular learning. This covers languages, history, music and fitness. When it comes to learning Samba, there are many benefits it can bring to the classroom such as self-confidence, communication skills and team work.

Primary School Samba Workshop for Key Stage One

Educational Sasmba Enrichment Workshop for School Open Day.

During the session we will use rhythm games as an ice-breaker to open your workshop before introducing the instruments and building up a multi-layer groove. Students may be offered the chance to lead the group with call-and-response rhythms, improving their self confidence and communication skills. Teachers are invited to join in during these sessions and at the end of the workshop, we’ll do a final performance of everything we have learned. This could be a great opportunity to film the performance as a showcase of the skills learned alongside being a reminder of the workshop your students participated in.

As a recommendation, we suggest that workshops should be no longer than 30 minutes for Reception aged children, 45 minutes -1 hour for juniors and 1-2 hours for teenagers and above with a small break inbetween for the 2 hour workshops.

All of our staff are enhanced DBS checked with the workshop leader also having a Child Safety Certificate.

Jackson Lapes - Bris Arts & Director of Afon Sistema.

“Having known and worked with Michael Grant for around 20 years, I confirm that he is both an excellent teacher and percussionist. He’s highly dedicated to learning all about percussion, with a specialism in Brazilian Samba and he’s travelled various times to Brazil to further his knowledge. I’ve worked with him in secondary, primary and corporate drumming workshops across the years and vouch for Mike’s professionalism and ability to engage a large group of individuals throughout drumming workshops. I have sent him to work on behalf of Bris Arts on various occasions and received nothing but positive feedback from our clients."

SAMBA SCHOOL 2022