The Alien Needs Our Help is a creative health and wellbeing programme, from Ludus Dance and More Music, commissioned by Lancaster City Council’s Public Protection, we are now offering it to primary schools across the district.

Designed to support teachers to deliver aspects of the science and PSHE curriculum, The Alien Needs our Help, is a FREE, one-hour-a-week workshop, run over 6 weeks for two classes in your school (one hour per class).

What happens in the session
On their first encounter the children find a musician in their classroom playing guitar. The children are invited in quietly and are told that an alien from far, far away is asleep in the room.
They find out that they need to help wake them up through song. The alien hasn’t been to Earth for a while and is surprised to discover they have been equipped with all this ‘science stuff’. Can the children help the alien understand how the world has changed and teach them how to keep safe from diseases and viruses- so that they can return to their family on their home planet without worrying about making them poorly?

Over the six weeks, the sessions will cover the following areas:
• How to stay healthy and keep yourself safe from germs

• The history of vaccines, how they work and why we have them

• Working with the children to generate creative responses to their experiences of the
   pandemic and lockdown through music, dance and movement