Course Overview
Drama enables students to develop knowledge, understanding and skills individually and collaboratively to make, perform and appreciate dramatic and theatrical works. Students take on roles as a means of exploring both familiar and unfamiliar aspects of their world while exploring the ways people react and respond to different situations, issues and ideas.
Course Content
Students learn to:
- Make, perform and appreciate dramatic and theatrical works. They devise and enact dramas using scripted and unscripted
- material and use acting and performance techniques to convey meaning to an audience.
- Respond to, reflect on and analyse their own work and the work of others and evaluate the contribution of drama and theatre to enriching society.
Students learn about:
- Playbuilding. Playbuilding refers to a group of students collaborating to make their own piece of drama from a variety of stimuli.
- At least one other dramatic form or performance style. Examples of these include improvisation, mime, script, puppetry, small screen drama, physical theatre, street theatre, mask, comedy and Shakespeare.
- The elements of drama, various roles in the theatre, the visual impact of design, production elements and the importance of the audience in any performance.
Course Assessment
Year 9
- Group improvisation
- Creating character monologue
- Playbuilding group performance
- Mask, performance and reflection
- Physical theatre group performance
- Log book
Year 10
- Dramatic forms group performance
- Creating character monologue
- Elements of production
- Short film
- Log book
Possible Subject Pathways in Stage 6
Students who have completed the Stage 5 course have developed a range of skills useful for further study at Stage 6. This includes communication and group work.