Providing outstanding performing arts and wellbeing programmes for people with learning disabilities.
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Our Arts & Crafts sessions are all about creativity, confidence and having fun! Students get hands-on with everything from sewing and painting to jewellery making and beyond. Through exciting themed projects and community collaborations, they can express themselves and discover new skill.
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Our Drama and Communication classes include drama games, storytelling, improvisation, role-play, Makaton and sensory interaction. Drama and communication activities help students to develop confidence, build on interaction skills, and their imaginative thinking.
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Our Expression Sessions bring crafts, music and drama together in a fun, supportive small-group setting. From making props and sewing to drama and memory games, students can get creative, build confidence and join in at their own pace.
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Our Music and Movement sessions offer students a space to explore rhythm, coordination, and physical expression through creative activities such as dance and singing.
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Our Baked Bean Boxing sessions combine boxing skills, games, and friendly challenges in a safe and inclusive environment. Led by professional coaches from Boxing Makes You Better alongside experienced Baked Bean staff, every session helps students build fitness, focus and discipline.
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Our founded drama group empowers students to fine-tune their drama and acting skills with a mixture of traditional and modern theatre texts and styles, and has many professional performance opportunities.
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Our Youth Theatre (ages 15–25) runs every Saturday during term time and is a vibrant, creative space where young people can explore acting, dancing and singing skills with the aim of putting on full-scale productions to an audience.
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A high energy fitness class for all, Baked Bean Zumba is not to be missed. This one-hour intensive cardio dance work out runs on Wednesday afternoons and is open to all Baked Bean students.
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Beans in Education, or BiE for short, is a group that creates and performs original shows about human rights and disability inequalities to training medical professionals, students and social services.
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Sing it. Dance it. Own the stage! Chilli Beans is a high-energy Musical Theatre group where students build confidence through singing, dancing and acting. From scriptwriting and songwriting to choreography and performance, students work together to create exciting original musicals.
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Turn it up and find your sound! Our Baked Bean DJs learn DJing, music production and song writing with industry professionals. From mastering decks to performing at events and festivals, students build confidence, explore creativity and develop their own unique sound.
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Known as Electric Beans, students explore the performing arts through drama-based physical theatre activities with a view to putting on full-scale productions in local theatres.
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Energy Beans is our foundation level dance class where students are challenged to increase their fitness, stamina and flexibility as well as their own choreography and routines together.
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Foundation Active Beans introduces students to fitness through fun games, movement and team challenges. Building coordination, confidence and key physical skills, sessions help everyone stay active, work together and enjoy success at their own pace.
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Our Foundation drama group with a strong focus on developing confidence, communication and co-ordination.
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Health & Wellbean use creativity, crafts and writing workshops to explore themes of self-care, emotional resilience and self-expression.
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Lights, camera, action! Screen Beans gives students the chance to act, create and make films from script to screen. Through workshops, improvisation and hands-on production, students build confidence, learn filmmaking skills to bring their own stories to life.
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The Baked Bean Choir is a vibrant and hard-working singing group that endeavours to develop students’ fine-tuning, vocal technique and musical understanding in order to sing collectively as a group, as well as shining with confidence in solos!
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The Baked Bean Dance Company is our advanced, high-energy dance class, packed with fast-paced choreography, varied music styles and plenty of fun. Build your fitness, confidence and performance skills while being challenged to push your dancing further, with opportunities to perform on stage!
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Known as Baked Bean Players, this is a performance-based drama group who work collectively in devising comedic theatre while exploring issues that are important to our actors, empowering them to tell their stories in their own way.
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