Drama
Mission Statement
To foster communication, cooperation and creative skills through making, performing and responding to drama.
Curriculum intent
- Each year’s programme of study to include devising original theatre using drama techniques, rehearsing and performing extracts from significant texts and responding academically to significant texts.
- Each year’s programme of study to Include learning about and responding to at least two significant plays from a variety of styles / practitioners.
- Drama texts will be studied in cultural and historical context, with emphasis placed in productions as well as text
- Knowledge is to be embedded in all lessons through consistent reference to knowledge organiser.
- Knowledge should be tested and retested in low-stakes assessment
- Knowledge should be embedded in the programme of formal assessment and tracked by teachers and faculty.
- Drama teachings enable students to access and appreciate different styles of drama: Naturalism, Classical & Contemporary.
- Understand how theatre and theatre styles relate to other art forms, especially with regard to genre: Comedy, Tragedy, Love, Horror
- Be able to respond to drama consumed critically, understanding it in context and having sensitivity to moral and political implication.
- Drama is a subject that is continually be doing, making and connecting practically. Adding variety within the curriculum and pushing for high standards of performance by exemplifying our 4 core principals of Challenge, Opportunity, Responsibility & Excellence.
- A curriculum which is not simply focused on teaching to the tests or achieving good exam results but the outcome of the experience and impact on the character being highly valued.
- Home learning will focus of the development of independent application for professionalism (as applicable to careers in drama): Students should learn lines and plan independent rehearsal outside of lesson.
- Students should review and revise knowledge using knowledge organisers.
Year 12
- Build broad knowledge of styles, techniques and practitioners for devising, Build broad knowledge of set text (content, characters, action), and learn (review) range of rehearsal techniques
- Learners participate in the creation, development and performance of a piece of theatre based on a reinterpretation of an extract from a text chosen from a list supplied by WJEC, develop written skills for expressing knowledge and understanding in the form of a devising log, and learn to develop dialogue through improvisation and redrafting
- Learners participate in the creation, development and performance of a piece of theatre based on a reinterpretation of an extract from a text chosen from a list supplied by WJEC, develop written skills for expressing knowledge and understanding in the form of a devising log, and learn to develop dialogue through improvisation and redrafting
- Develop knowledge of set text (style, techniques, structure), learn (review) language for acting skills (voice, movement, interaction), introduce written skills for expressing knowledge and understanding (short-form), respond to stimulus making links to practitioner and developing a theme/intent, and learn to build/structure a plot
- Review and deepen knowledge of exam expectations-Live Review (context, themes, meaning), respond creatively as an audience member, and introduce written skills for scaffolding a live review response
- Review and deepen knowledge of set text (context, themes, meaning), respond creatively as a designer and understand an agreed design concept, introduce written skills for evaluation/discussing themes, and learn to polish, perfect and present a performance
Year 13
- Develop knowledge of set text (style, techniques, structure), learn (review) language for acting skills (voice, movement, interaction), introduce written skills for expressing knowledge and understanding (short-form), respond to stimulus making links to practitioner and developing a theme/intent, and learn to build/structure a plot.
- Develop understanding of how to stage script and devised extracts effectively, analyse and challenge knowledge of text (style, techniques, structure), and secure and analyse written skills for expressing knowledge and understanding
- Develop understanding of how to characterise script and devised extracts effectively
- Analyse and challenge knowledge of text (context, themes, meaning)
- Secure and analyse written skills for expressing opinion and interpretation
- Perform with confidence and assurance for assessment, clearly and accurately reflect on learning, knowledge and expressive skills for written evaluation
- Students’ knowledge and written skills to be fully prepared for examination.
Assessment
- Year 12: Informal written assessments, performance of original devised piece (formal, filmed assessment), a portfolio of supporting evidence, written evaluations.
- Year 13: Formal (public) assessment of script/devised extracts, students to understand their own progress in responding to exams, process and evaluation report to examiner within one week of exam, written examinations.
Drama is helping me to become more social, improving my presentation skills and giving me more confidence in class discussions, both in drama and other lessons.
In Drama, I am learning how to express myself in different ways and learning how to work with others.