Drama

Curriculum Intent

Drama lessons offer students opportunities to explore the world around them in a creative and expressive way. Our broad curriculum provides all students with lessons which focus on social skills, communication skills, raising self-awareness whilst encouraging their understanding and empathy for other people, places and cultures. Our key stage 3 curriculum is designed to explore a variety of acting skills, script work and thematic based units of work. The units taught will prepare students for key stage 4 study and the BTEC Acting qualification whilst also developing them as individuals, making them more able to respond to a variety of topics in a thoughtful and interesting way. Drama provides students with a safe space to imagine, explore and create.

Strengths of the Department

We teach in a very practical way using lots of group work and encourage the sharing of work through performance.

Achievements

Achievements

School Plays have always been an important part of what we do. The list of previous productions is hopefully impressive and includes: “Treasure Island”, The Wizard of Oz”, “A Midsummer Night's Dream”, “Oliver!”, “Tales from the Arabian Nights”, “Joseph and his Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat”, “Blood Wedding”, “Oliver Twist”, “Guys and Dolls”, “The Little Shop of Horrors”, “The Crucible”, “Return to the Forbidden Planet”, “Alice in Wonderland”, “The Slave Trade”, “Macbeth”, “A Grimm Evening”, “Teechers”, “Our Day Out”, “Zigger Zagger”, “The Caucasian Chalk Circle”, “Death”, “Shakers”, “Our Country’s Good”, “A Winter’s Tale”, "Oh What a Lovely War", “Wyrd Sisters” and “Shakespeare’s Women”.

This year we will be performing Romeo and Juliet as part of the Shakespeare Festival.

Some of our previous students have gone on to great things:

Wunmi Mosaku

 Fisayo Akinade

2017 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress . Coronation Street actor Emmy winning and BAFTA nominated

British director

Rising star of Stage and Screen
Exam Board: PEARSON

Drama Curriculum

Year 7Year 8Year 9Year 10Year 11
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Introduction to Drama – MLK

Historical

Shaun Tan – The Arrival

Social

Darkwood Manor

Devising

Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations

Script

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Practitioner/Style

The Demon Headmaster

Skills

Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Black Lives Matter

Social

Our Day Out

Script

Well-Made Play

Devising

Grimms Tales

Script

Melodrama (Silent Movies)

Practitioner/Style

Devising from Stimulus

Devising

Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Noughts & Crosses

Script

Teechers

Skills

Epic Theatre

Practitioner/Style

Real Events

Historical/Social

DNA

Script

Debate

Skills

Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Introduction to BTEC Acting and Component 1 – Practitioners and Roles in Theatre Component 1 Exploring Performing Arts – Metamorphosis and Frantic Assembly Component 1
Exploring Performing Arts – Theme exploration
Component 1
Exploring Performing Arts – Stylistic Features
Component 1
Exploring Performing Arts – Conclusion
Begin Component 2 Developing Skills and Techniques – Introduction and play selection
Autumn 1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Component 2
Developing skills and techniques.
Rehearsals and workshops.
Component 2
Developing skills and techniques – Perform final performance and complete log books.
Component 3
Exam unit – Devised
Teach Devising skills
Exam released in Jan.
Component 3
Exam unit – Devised
Devising to a stimulus in groups.
Component 3
Practical performance and written exams
Final component exams and finish.

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