eclipseArts circus skills workshop

…Excellent all round entertainment

four hours of excellent varied entertainment at our Christmas Fayre including a walkabout performance and stilt walking whilst the children were also kept busy at the circus workshop. Great value and we have no hesitation in highly recommending to all.

I booked two performers for my son’s 18th birthday party. They were greet our guests on stilts and finish the evening with fire juggling. The boys all thought the stilt costumes were very ‘sci-fi’ with their strips of lights. Laura and Tom mingled and showed us tricks throughout the night which was a nice touch we weren’t expecting . The fire show was really amazing – in particular the fire hulahoop and fire eating. Strongly recommended!

It was really fun and everyone learned something new. We especially enjoyed the tightrope walking but we also liked the juggling. The staff who were teaching us were really encouraging and we all had a fantastic time. We really liked the way they taught us new skills on how to juggle with scarfs to practice. Overall, we all really enjoyed the day and we would really recommend it to other year groups.

“Tom has run Circus Skills after schools clubs for KS1 and KS2 this term at my school. They have been very well attended and also well led. Tom has impressive Circus Skills and is able to help children progressively pick up the skills and have fun too! He started off with a very entertaining assembly that showed what Circus Skills are. This encouraged many children to join the clubs. He has a CRB and has a very pleasant manner with the children. He comes with a good reference from a school he worked with in Oxfordshire where he previously lived. If you want to run a different sort of club to the usual range of after school clubs then I would recommend trying this.”

We have worked with Tom on a number of circus workshop projects. He has always been most professional, reliable, punctual and easy to work with, delivering high quality circus activity workshops across a range of very different skills and to various client groups. The main piece of work was running circus skills workshops on a weekly basis in a small primary aged Pupil Referral Unit with a small group of boys who were not thriving in main stream school. All the boys had some sort of behaviour or engagement issue and were a volatile group. Tom built up a great rapport with them all (as well as the staff) and all greatly anticipated the sessions. The pupils related well to Tom and learnt fast, achieving well and feeling good about themselves. The high point was when they were invited into their local infant school to give a display of their new talent.”