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Drama
Curriculum
Year
7
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Topics Covered |
Description |
| Term 1 |
The
spaceship and the Alien
Haunted
and Hunted
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In
Year 7, pupils are introduced to a number of basic drama
skills through a variety of stimulus, both imaginative
and factual. |
| Term 2 |
The
Motorway (link
to Geography)
Evacuation
(link
to English and History) |
These
skills include freeze-frame, polished improvisation,
mime, key words, gibberish and storytelling. |
| Term 3 |
Play:
‘Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations’/’Humpty
Dumpty’
Exam
(based on play) and end of year evaluation
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Pupils
are also encouraged to develop positive group, pair and
independent work skills and are given a practical
scripted examination in the summer term. |
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Drama
Curriculum
Year
8 |
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Topics Covered |
Description |
| Term 1 |
Greenal
and Graynal (link to Geography)
Advertising |
Pupils
in Year 8 develop and build upon skills acquired in Year
7 through more challenging materials. |
| Term 2 |
Status
Soap
Opera
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Pupils
also learn new skills, including hot seating, script
writing and spontaneous improvisation. |
| Term
3 |
Play:
‘Animal Farm’/’The Diary of Anne Frank’
Exam
(based on play) and end of year evaluation
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Pupils
also work together in a mixed group to write, perform
and film TV adverts and a new Soap Opera before being
practically examined in the Summer Term |
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Drama
Curriculum
Year
9 |
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Topics Covered |
Description |
| Term 1 |
Rites
of Passage/From Antigone to Rosa Parks
Melodrama |
Pupils
in Year 9 have the opportunity to deepen their acting
skills through focused work on characterisation and the
study, writing and performance of Melodramas.
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| Term 2 |
Shakespeare
(link to English and Music)
Macbeth
set design (link to Art)
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The
schemes in the second term support the English SATs with
detailed study of Shakespeare in performance and set
design in conjunction with art. |
| Term 3 |
Play:
‘Mother Figure’/’Our Day Out’
Exam
(based on play) and end of year evaluation
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Their
final skills are assessed in an end of Year practical
examination based on Willy Russell’s play ‘Our Day
Out’.
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