How drama can help with school attendance. At St Joseph's College, Cape Town, drama is valuable part of an overall arts-based education.

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Research shows that drama helps with school attendance. 
(N. Barry, J. Taylor, and Kwalls, "The Role of the Fine and Performing Arts in High School Dropout Prevention,” Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Achievement and Social Development, ed. Richard Deasy (Washington, DC: Arts Education Partnership, 2002) 74-75.)

In Cape Town, the Helen O'Grady Drama Academy can verify this report that children who attend drama absolutely love coming to school on the day. Most children say that this is one of their favourite subjects and they love attending for this very reason. Drama helps children to enjoy their overall school experience and as a result this filters into other subjects. 

Also, in this research there is a direct correlation between drop out rates at school and those who attend drama. Drama education is motivating and stimulating for children, giving them purpose and belonging. 

 The above research showed that 

 1. 'Students considered to be at high risk for dropping out of high school cite drama and other arts classes as their motivations for staying in school.'

 2. 'Students who participate in the arts are 3 times more likely to win an award for school attendance than those who do not.'

 This is amazing and this is why parents at St Joseph's Marist College in Cape Town hold the Helen O'Grady Drama Academy's after school (extra-mural) programme in such high regard as it stimulates and overall enhances the child's experience.

 You can see our younger children in dramatic action with their teacher, Debbie Robertson, who always brings out the best in each and every children using the Academy's international curriculum.

 For more info head to our website: www.dramaafrica.com

 Telephone 021 6747478

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