Drama

Drama Curriculum Intent

In Drama, the intention is to provide students with the fundamental skills for life. We pledge, as a team to increase the life chances of all individuals through developing the following:

The personal skills of every student to be passionate, creative people.
Knowledge of the drama curriculum and transferable skills to be used across all subjects.
Leadership, self-confidence and communication skills to become the most employable people of the future.
Experience of the culture and artistic engagement of different theatre genres, styles and performance.

Key Stage 3

Year 7	Year 8	Year 9
C1 Exploration of Drama – Stimulus work. C2 Script and character development. C3 Design, Stage and Space. C4 Play Review – Extended Writing.	C1 Issue-Based Drama C2 Puppetry C3 Stage Combat (Shakespeare) C4 Commedia Dell’arte C5 Performing Arts. – musicals and exploration of art forms C6 Play Review – extended writing.	C1 Crime and Punishment C2 Theatre in Education C3 Blood Brothers Text Exploration C4 Stimulus Exploration – Frantic Assembly C5 Play Review C6 Macbeth

Key Stage 4

Students work towards the WJEC GCSE in Drama.

Year 10

Year 11

Autumn Term 1

Script (C2) exploration and understanding the course. Practitioner Exploration

Autumn Term 2

Text Exploration (C3)

Spring Term 1

Begin Component 1

Spring Term 2

Component 1

Summer Term 1

Component 1 (including mock exam)

Summer Term 2

Component 1 (Including actual assessment)

Evaluation of Component 1

Portfolio