DRAMA

Our big ideas in Drama are:

Performance Skills
Group Work
Exploring context & cultural awareness
 
Building confidence
Understanding the work of playwrights & practitioners
Interpretations and personal opinions

Click here for details on the Big Ideas.

See below for the Drama Learning Journey from Year 7 to Year 11 and the overviews for each Learning Cycle. They explain our planned curriculum of what students are expected to learn.

Drama Curriculum and Assessment Calendar - Year 10 & Year 11


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You can find our Drama KS3 knowledge organisers and support with KS3 home learning here.

The key contact for this subject is Miss H Harding - Head of Drama (hannah.harding@pcsa.theplt.org.uk)

For more information about KS4 revision and study support visit our pages on revision and Prep for Success.   

Preparing for KS4 study (GCSE and vocational qualifications in years 10 and 11)? Click here for information about the Year 9 Options Process.  

To find out more about our careers provision, visit the careers webpage.

Year 7 Learning Cycle

Drama is Serious Fun

Assessment Focus:
Scripted vocal performance

Theatre Through the Ages

Assessment Focus:
Mask work and characterisation techniques.

Shakespeare

Assessment Focus:
Scripted Ensemble Chorus Piece

Devising Drama – Alice in Wonderland

Assessment Focus:
Devised Performance

Year 8 Learning Cycle

Theatre Practitioners

Assessment Focus:
Devised performance and presentation of the style of chosen practitioner.

Devising Drama – Ishi the Last Tribal American Indian.

Assessment Focus:
Ensemble Group Devised Performance

Physical Theatre – Curious incident of the Dog in the Nigh time

Assessment Focus:
Scripted performance using physical theatre techniques.

Devising Drama – Refugee Boy

Assessment Focus:
Devised Performance

Year 9 Learning Cycle

Women in Theatre

Assessment Focus:
Ensemble devised performance based on a chosen practitioner or design presentation

Blood Brothers - Scripted

Assessment Focus:
Duologue scripted performance

Godber - Scripted

Assessment Focus:
Ensemble physical scripted performance

Devising Theatre – responding to stimuli – Human Rights

Assessment Focus: 
Devised performance or design presentations.

Year 10 Learning Cycle

Key Skills and Mock unit 2 - Pinter Sketches

Assessment Focus:
Monologue and Duologue performances and evaluation essay.

Unit 1 Mock – Responding to Stimuli

Assessment focus:
Ensemble devised performance and a 1000 word portfolio.

Mock Unit 3 – Exploration of text

Assessment Focus:
Class performance and written paper.

Real Unit 1 – Exam board brief set Theme

Assessment Focus:
Devised performance and written portfolio (Internally assessed) 40% of final GCSE grade.

Year 11 Learning Cycle

 

Unit 1 - Performing

Assessment Focus:
Group scripted performance based on brief and portfolio of work 20% of Final grade (internally marked).

Unit 2 - Devising to Brief

Assessment focus:
Ensemble devised performance based on Exam brief and portfolio of work 40% of final grade. (Internally marked).

Unit 3 – Promoting and Pitching

Assessment Focus:
Portfolio of set tasks provided by the board as well as a recorded pitch to be sent to the board. 40% of final grade. (Externally marked).