WMCT is one of the longest established touring theatre companies in the UK, performing our fully interactive plays and pantomimes to primary and special needs schools throughout the whole of the British Isles since 1973!

The duration of each performance is manageable for pupils with SEN. All our shows incorporate music, high comedy, movement, lighting, set and costume, with a script using language at a level appropriate for pupils with SEN and those working at P levels.

Our actors are confident and experienced in working with and performing to a wide range of pupils with SEN, including opportunities for managed audience participation.

Approximately 30% of our performances are in special needs schools, including SLD, MLD, PMLD, COMPLEX NEEDS, ASC, BESD, VI and HI.

Our current production for the summer and Autumn terms 2014 is our exciting new show “The Firebird” a wonderful interactive story based on a famous Russian legend.

We would like to offer you a preferential rate for one of our last few remaining performances.

Please see below a small selection of some of the outstanding reviews from special need schools who saw our most recent production. I very much look forward to speaking with you soon.

Kind regards

Jill Coffman
West Midlands Children’s Theatre, touring since 1973

‘Book the best, copied by all the rest`

TEL: 01902 335533/336622

WEBSITE: www.wmct.co.uk

EMAIL: jill@wmct.co.uk / jillwmct@gmail.com 

“Thank you so much for the fantastic performance. We felt you incorporated a lot of educational ideas such as spelling, counting – engaging all age ranges and abilities. We feel your performance was imaginative and amusing storytelling – a pleasure to watch!” Stone Hill School, Doncaster.

“Fabulous show! It was totally engaging and appropriate for special needs pupils and the ones who were involved in the acting loved it. It was visually exciting and audience participation was great. We would love to have you back!” Icknield School, Andover, Hants

What is the most effective way of teaching how instructions are stored in a computer, Boolean logic, number systems, etc, etc?

It is a simple fact that teaching Boolean logic and its uses in circuits and programming is not the easiest task at KS3 and KS4.

Especially when at the same time one is teaching how numbers can be represented in binary and binary operations.

Or, come to that, how hardware and software components make up computer systems and how they communicate, and how instructions are stored and executed within a computer system.

However, there a solution, for now there is the TOM Simulator.

The unique thing about the simulator is that it gives students hands-on experience of all these things within a computer that they can control and see the logic of, while avoiding the complexity of a real hardware system.

TOM is a transparent computer so students can see what’s in the memory and in the various registers, thereby making these concepts easy to teach.

But, of course, that is only the start, for the mechanisms of interrupts, memory mapped output, stacks, recursion are all visible, not just something that happens out of sight on a chip.

Thus the TOM Simulator takes us from an abstract concept presented on paper or whiteboard into a unique transparent computer. It also allows the whole class to write programs on the very first day whilst developing an understanding of how a modern computer works.

The TOM program also includes a number of components each designed to teach the fundamentals of computing via simple interactions. This enables students to interact with information on the screen and to gain a clear understanding of precisely how a computer achieves its task.

There’s more information on our TOM program on our website at http://www.keylinkcomputers.co.uk/tomsimulator.html.

Alternately for more information call us on 01926 850909 or email us at sales@keylinkcomputers.co.uk.