frantic productions
London
Fran Carpenter is the Managing Director of Frantic Productions Ltd. Frantic was
formed in 1998. A prolific writer of school music resources and Christmas
nativity plays and musicals, Fran has more than 20 years' experience of teaching
early years, Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 as a music co-ordinator and specialist
class music teacher. Fran's catalogue of school musicals and music education
resources is growing all the time, and her nativity plays and musical
productions have been performed worldwide in thousands of primary schools. Fran
also worked for several years in school television and educational video
production. She worked as a member of the producer's team on a series of BBC's
Look and Read and on a TEFL video for Pearson Education, and was a co-writer of
the accompanying teachers' resource packs. She is a member of the Orff Society
UK and much of her music for children is inspired by the creative Orff approach
to music education. In addition to her writing work, Fran runs music workshops
in nurseries and schools and CPD teacher training courses for music hubs and
teacher training colleges. These courses are highly regarded and provide
teachers and students with a whole host of ideas for creative music making with
early years and primary children. Frantic Productions is also a Music Hub
Partner of Bournemouth's Music Hub, SoundStorm, running projects for Bournemouth
primary schools and early years providers. Visit our Extras menu below for the
full range of services Frantic can offer nurseries, schools and Music Hubs. The
fabulous artwork on the Frantic Productions website and on the covers of our
books since 2012 is by Vanessa Wells, withbits.com Fran is also delighted to
have worked with the talented musicians, arrangers and composers, Dorian Kelly
of Modal Music and Shan Verma of the London Jazz Piano School.
