What is Debutots?
Debutots interactive storytelling and dramatic play is an award-winning, cross curricular programme for children aged 1 - 7 years. Classes promote the four fundamental capacities of the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence and develop children's confidence to speak, concentration to listen and their creative and critical thinking. Children explore complex themes and feelings in a safe and happy environment through storytelling and drama techniques. It’s a progressive three year rolling curriculum made up of a huge range of topic blocks including Eco Tales; Colour Crazy, Happy Habitats and many more. Each week’s adventure is detailed in a Creative Planning Pack with the curricular links to slot into your own planning and we also send our Parent Port Packs directly to parents with suggested story themed activities and an outline of what their little one has done in Debutots.
The children thoroughly enjoy these sessions and have learnt so much especially the social emotional aspects. They enjoyed listening to Caitlin the Ugly Caterpillar story and how it feels to be laughed at and made fun of, also Camelia the Camel’s story and that they’ve to realise some people can do things better than others , friendship, being able to ask for help, how to deal with feelings when changes occur, having empathy towards others if they’re in pain etc , respect for others and have regard for their feelings. All the children have understood these emotions and now know how to deal with them.
How can Debutots help your nursery or school?
We can deliver weekly classes, after school clubs, one off workshops or classes with parents to engage the wider community.
With Debutots your setting can:
Promote well-being for pupils and staff;
Engage parents and carers with free, weekly resources that can be adapted to meet the needs of all families;
Slot our Creative Planning Packs directly into your own planning - outlining curricular links, class themes and content
Use the class time as valuable observation of students;
Narrow the attainment gap and improve outcomes for vulnerable learners;
Deliver cross curricular learning through Expressive Arts ;
Develop literacy;
Promote listening and talking skills;
Support remotely, when necessary and where possible with online and face to face options available;
Deliver high quality adult-child interaction in a happy learning environment;
Provide an enabling environment for staff and pupils to build relationships.
My little girl is in Reception class and sometimes struggles to interact with other children. I would thoroughly recommend Debutots. My little girl is extremely shy but every evening after attending her class she is so full of excitement and joy. My daughter talks fondly of Helen and it has been wonderful for her confidence. The mix of age groups attending has been very helpful for her to meet different children in other year groups. I am so pleased we decided to sign up. I can’t thank Helen enough for helping our little girl form relationships, gain confidence and have fun.
Why Debutots?
With consistent 5 star reviews, you can see how beneficial and indispensable Debutots is to the settings we already work with and now we can offer our fantastic classes to nurseries and schools in Scotland. If you’re looking to engage your children, staff and parents in a fun and exciting way then Debutots is for you.
Absolutely fantastic. Every child thoroughly enjoyed Debutots days, the stories had real meanings and there was always a message to be taken from it, the interactive nature meant children didn't get bored as they were fully immersed and involved. They all loved the sticker at the end of each day. Parents thought the parent hub resources were brilliant and the follow up activities were well linked to the theme. Children were able to recall amazingly well during the recap at the end of each session which just shows how much they actually took in during each session. The addition of the word of the week was also fantastic.
We can tailor our one off workshops to your chosen themes including special days/dates Children’s Mental Health Week, Valentines Day, World Book Day, Easter, to name but a few. We are also really versatile, if you are working on a specific topic we will adapt sessions to work with you.
To promote our launch in Scotland with the 2023 Nursery Guide we are giving you a 10% discount on your booking with the following code: DEBUTOT10
For more information you can email me - elaine@debutots.co.uk or give me a call on 01578 788170.
