Home School Circus
Circus for home schooled kids and their families!
WHAT ARE CIRCUS CLASSES?
Non-competitive, creative, inclusive, student-led, and diverse physical activity for all!
Circus is a catch-all term for a wide variety of physical and performance skills, including:
Acrobatics – tumbling, partner, & group shapes
Balance – unicycle, tightwire
Juggling – Rings, Clubs, Balls
Aerials – Silks, Trapeze, Ring
Ground-to-Air – Teeterboard, Straps, Pole
Performance – traditional & contemporary circus, clown, & slapstick
Circus is excellent for teaching inclusive, fun, and diverse physical activity supporting coordination, balance, strength, flexibility, and supportive group skills perfect for family and group bonding.
A term-length or ongoing circus program as a home-school activity:
- Meets P.E. curriculum requirements at all year levels
- Can meet drama/dance curriculum units when paired with a planned performance outcome
- Supports physical activity for young people who feel excluded from traditional sports, and/or young people interested in drama and live performance.
- Supports physical activity for neurodivergent students and students with disabilities
- Is an ideal activity for pastoral care or youth engagement programs
At Warehouse Circus, we teach circus skills from beginner to professional, following industry best practice in a fun, inclusive and safe way.
Circus is for everybody and every body.
Circus can Deliver Outcomes of the Australian Curriculum in:
Arts
- Developing Practices & Skills
- Creating and Making
- Presenting and Performing
Although Circus is not specifically listed in the Australian Curriculum, this is an accessible, inclusive set of performance skills and principles that:
Are easily understood;
Teach and support movement quality akin to dance;
Has its own creative language and presentation formats;
Can be used to enhance, underpin or combine with other dramatic elements to create innovative, new work with positive experiences and a valued place for all students regardless of prior physical ability or experience.
Health & Physical Education
- Health benefits of physical activity
- Mental health and wellbeing
- Safety & Assessing Risk
- Active play and minor games
- Challenge and adventure activities
- Fundamental movement skills
- Games and sports
- Lifelong physical activities
- Rhythmic and expressive activities
Cross Curriculum
Priorities
Circus programs can be easily tailored to meet outcomes requirements across curricula.
Circus is a physical activity and expressive set of commonly understood apparatus that can be used to convey both emotional concepts and specific information.
Eg.
- Circus performances can convey emotional states, big ideas, personal moments and powerful opinions. They’re also fun to make and watch!
- Acrobalance, equilibristics, aerials and object manipulation can be used to teach practical application of physics, Human balance concepts
- Circus apparatus can be used as metaphor for explaining other scientific concepts
- A circus production as a project can involve performing arts, visual arts and fashion, production and event management, even marketing and business! we can scale a class project to meet the needs and capacity of our home school families.
Circus to Support Pastoral Care:
Fosters a supportive and co-operative environment
Increases participation and engagement in school
Encourages young people to be active
Is suitable for all athletic abilities
Assists in the development of step-by-step learning which transfers to other areas of school
Aids social development and increased self-esteem
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