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Drama
Useful Resources and Revision Support
- Recommended Drama Books:
Wider Reading List - Drama
Students are given the opportunity to explore different theatre and practitioner styles.
There is the opportunity to be involved in school productions through extra-curricular clubs as actors or technical support. Students who opt for the GCSE will experience live theatre and relevant workshops to aid their understanding of this.
Students are encouraged to share their opinions regarding their own work and the work of others and to carefully consider how to shape meaning on stage.
Assessment
Year 7 Assessment: Year 7 Drama pupils are assessed through 5 key PLCS
Drama Skills, People Skills, Acting Skills, Listening and Speaking Skills and Evaluation Skills
Year 8 Drama Assessment: Students in Year 8 are introduced to the GCSE assessment components.
Component 01/02 – Devising Drama
Component 03 – Presenting and Performing Texts
Year 9 Drama Assessment: Students will complete a mock of each of the three components of the GCSE
Component 01/02 – Devising Drama
Component 03 – Presenting and Performing Texts
Component 04 – Performance and Response
Year 10 Drama Assessment: Students will complete a mock of each of the three components of the GCSE
Component 01/02 – Devising Drama
Component 03 – Presenting and Performing Texts
Component 04 – Performance and Response
Students will also complete their actual GCSE assessment for Devising Drama in Year 10 (This can extend into year 11 if necessary)
Year 11 Drama Assessment: Students will complete Component 03 – Presenting and Performing Texts – This involves performing two extracts from a text for a visiting examiner.
Students will also be prepared for the demands of Component 04 – Performance and Response. This is a written paper including an evaluation of Live theatre. Students will be taken to the theatre as a group to see the performance they will analyse.
Enrichment
Year 7 Drama Club runs every Tuesday after school and Year 8 Drama Club runs on Thursdays.
All students of all age groups are welcome to audition for the school musical. Rehearsals for this run on alternating Mondays as well as every Wednesday.
Revision and intervention sessions run in Year 11 on a Tuesday after school from November onwards.
Curriculum Overview
Year 7
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Key Skills – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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Romeo and Juliet
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Improvisation
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Victorian Melodrama
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Commedia Dell’arte
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Treasure Island
Year 8
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Introduction to script analysis
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Understanding the value of stage directions
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Recognising subtext
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Assessment piece: develop a performance about being a teenager in Bingley
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Perform assessment piece
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Evaluate own performance using Drama terminology
Year 9
- Explore practitioner styles
- Devising Drama – Exploration of Frantic Assembly, Artaud and Stanislavski
- Introduction to stimulus for Mock Assessment.
- Students should explore their initial ideas. (AO1)
- Explore the stimulus using research
- Explore character motives and plot outline.
- rehearse with focus on use of research to show artistic intention and characterisation.
- To explore devising (proxemics and semiotics in relation to colour wheel).
- develop two scenes that reflect their Artistic intention in preparation for assessment.
- Reflect on peer and teacher feedback to develop performance
- To explore devising (structure and narrative, physicality, exploring technical elements Light & Sound)
- Complete Assessment piece
Year 10
- Development of scripted performance begins in Year 10.
- Script is chosen to suit the ability of the cohort and will be carried forward into year 11.
- Devising Drama – Exploration of three theatre practitioners (these alter to suit ability of cohort)
Year 11
- Devising Drama – Finalising coursework
- Find Me – Written paper
- Continuation of development of scripted performance.
- Script studied is chosen to suit ability of cohort.
