Our approach to working with schools focuses on fostering longer-term partnerships across the academic year. In 2024-25 we worked with Eastbank Academy, Rosshall Academy, St. Mungo’s Academy, St. Roch’s Secondary School and Whitehill Secondary School. These partnerships will extend into the 2025-26 academic year, with these schools being joined by a further five Glasgow secondary schools.

Opportunities for schools will include:

PRODUCTION RESOURCES
Production resources will give students an insight into the theatre making process. Schools will be offered a series of pre-show prompts designed to encourage students to actively think about acting, directing and design choices as they watch the performance. Post show workshops will give students the opportunity to reflect on and interrogate the choices made by actors, designers and the director, as well as explore how they might approach their own staging of the play. 

Workshop are designed to help students develop critical thinking around live performance, with reference and relevance to questions found in SQA Drama exam papers. 

Follow-up resources will also be made available, including interviews with cast and creative team members, script extracts and rehearsal room access.

Production resources will be available for A View From The Bridge and Black Hole Sign.

TRON AMBASSADORS
Re-imagining the traditional work placement, Tron Ambassadors is a year-long, work experience programme for 14–18-year-olds interested in finding out about careers and training in the creative industries.

Activities include seeing and reviewing performances, back-stage tours and practical workshops where Ambassadors will work with different Tron departments, identifying and developing key creative and transferable skills for career pathways.  There is also the opportunity to work towards a nationally recognised qualification, either a Silver or Gold Arts Awards.

Recruitment for academic year 2025-26 will begin in June 2025.

TRON TAKE OVER
A project for young people to gain experience of working within the creative industries.

In 2025 we will work with ten schools from the east end of Glasgow who will each be offered two taster workshops open to S4, S5 and S6 pupils.  Workshops will explore non-performance roles in the arts with a follow up CV workshop to identify transferable skills.

Everyone taking part in these workshops will have the opportunity to apply to be involved in the Tron Take Over project, through a ‘formal’ application process. This process will include shortlisting, a recruitment workshop and interview, and for successful applications, will lead to the offer of a role in the Tron Take Over. 

The Take Over group will work with the Gallus in Weegieland team, exploring a range of backstage involved in bringing the pantomime to the stage, including writing, directing, stage management, design, sound design, marketing and front of house.  Working alongside the Tron staff team, participants will ‘take over’ the Tron, delivering an extract from Gallus in Weegieland on stage, to parents, carers and teachers, as a curtain raiser to a special performance of the pantomime.

If you are interested in any of our opportunities for schools, please contact Creative Learning Manager, Lisa Keenan on lisa.keenan@tron.co.uk.

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