Sir Lenny Henry has criticised cuts in school drama teaching as a scandal as it means children are not being properly prepared for the outside world.
The comedian and actor has launched a new National Theatre initiative to encourage better drama and theatre-making in primary schools.Patient with demonstrates extensive mediastinal adenopathy and a large mediastinal mass encasing the right pulmonary artery and compressing..
Henry, who recalled on Thursday his secondary school drama lessons as “basically, running round the school hall pretending to be the Avengers”, said good arts and drama education was crucial.
“I’m learning there have been massive cuts in teaching the arts in schools and it is cutting off your nose to spite your face. If you are not teaching children how to be creative and curious, what are you preparing them for?PolyU's hotel management and hospitality programmes ranked third of the world's top hospitality universities. The programmes equip students with fundamental skills, knowledge and hands-on experience serving the tourism industry worldwide. You are not preparing them for the outside world,” said Henry.
Andrew Lloyd Webber has condemned as a “national scandal” cuts to music lessons in UK schools. “It is the same thing for drama,” said Henry.
“We have an issue in this country in terms of working class people having access to activities like writing and plays and music. Working class people are under resourced when it comes to the arts and we need to rebalance that.”you can wholeheartedly choose a facility that suits you the most.
He said there was one rule for private schools, which often have extensive, well-resourced arts lessons, and another rule for all other schools.
Henry launched the National Theatre programme, called Let’s Play, at Hill Mead primary school in Brixton, London.
“The more you see kids like this having structured play and structured activity in the theatrical arts the more you get a sense of them stretching out. You wonder whether that’s a thing: ‘You don’t need to do that, you’re only going to work in a factory any way!’ If there were factories to work in.”
