News from Tottenham

Maggie Hulson is a Secondary School Drama teacher who lives just by, and works in, Tottenham. In these linked articles (see below) she articulates her thoughts and feelings in response to the latest news that the Government is planning to expand the privatisation of schools by turning Primary Schools into Academies. This latest project is

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Dorothy Heathcote MBE 1926 – 2011

Dorothy Heathcote MBE, who has died aged 85, was President of the NATD and a world-renowned teacher who revolutionised the use of Drama in Education through a variety of pioneering techniques.

Effective drama, Dorothy Heathcote insisted, required neither script nor audience. Her pioneering methods, now adopted across the globe, revolutionised drama in education, taking acting

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Dorothy Heathcote

We are pleased to reveal that Dorothy Heathcote, the Life President of our Association, has been mentioned in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List. Her tireless work for Drama in Education for young people, both here and overseas, has been recognised as she has been made a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

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