Health Workshops | ACT ON INFO Theatre in Education Company (TiE)

Learning your A to Zzzzzzzzzz

New research shows that children can be getting as little as four hours of sleep a night. No wonder they find it hard to concentrate in school. I’m 34 and I get tetchy and easily distracted if I get less than 9 hours a night. (And happily spend the day feeling sorry for myself.) It is a good job we have comfortable beds here at Act on Info towers. So a trial has begun in Glasgow to give sleep lessons in school. Apparently if young people follow a bedtime routine and get 10 hours of sleep a night then they are more able to function properly in school and less likely to fall asleep during lessons. Mind you there are some classes through which no-one can stay awake! I love the idea of sleep lessons. In fact I’m off right now to write a sleeping drama workshop. I’ll just have a little nap first…

Healthy Eating at the movies

Well it seems that the Food Standards Agency have noticed that the snacks available at the cinema are non too healthy. I’m glad we are so on the ball! I’m sure it has never before occurred to anyone that a wheelbarrow worth of popcorn and a jeroboam of fizzy pop might not be the safest of treats. Apparently the solution is to offer smaller quantities and create a calorie labelling system. This is a start but if we genuinely don’t realise that these concession stand goodies are indeed baddies in disguise then we need some serious education. Act on Info are once again poised to leap to the rescue. Healthy Eating Drama Workshops could take place in the foyer to entertain and inform the queues.

I’m telling you – Theatre in Education can save the nation!

Health Workshops needed for stressed out nation

Apparently we are more stressed out than ever. One of the newest pointers (as if we need showing) is the recent increase in teeth grinding. More and more people are suffering from this symptom of stress so, perhaps soon, it will be so noisy at night time that we’ll all be up into the wee hours, watching sign zone. Perhaps we all need some Health Workshops to calm us down and get a good night’s sleep. Along with a nice warm milky drink of course. Theatre-in-Education can save the nation. Or at least our teeth.