DRAMA

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Students viewed during a practical session

YEAR 7

Issues – Introduction to Drama – The world around us – Relationships – Performance poetry                                                                                                               Skills – Making – co-operation – listening and contributing

Performing – Concentration – improvisation and role-play                                                               Responding – speaking, listening and evaluating

YEAR 8

Issues – My world – Accusations – Adventures – Grimm’s Fairy Tales                   Skills – Making – co-operation – listening, contributing and developing

Performing – concentration – language, movement and space

Responding – speaking, listening and evaluating

YEAR 9

Issues – Social issues – Work and change – selected scenes/text work                           Skills – Making – co-operation – listening, contributing and developing

Performing – concentration – language, movement and space – improvisation and role-play

Responding – speaking, listening and evaluating

ASSESSMENT

Students carry out a twice-yearly Drama self-assessment designed to encourage a reflective approach to learning.  This is backed up with teacher comments and one to one discussion on pupil progress

Twice yearly school reports to parents indicate the teacher assessment level that a pupil is working at, and a target level towards which the pupil will work

UNIT 2 -Drama Exploration II

This unit of coursework is concerned with the exploration of a play. The aim of the unit is to give student’s knowledge and understanding of the ways in which play-writes, performers and directors use the medium of drama to communicate their ideas to an audience. Use of Explorative Strategies, Drama Medium and Elements of Drama demonstrate student’s abilities.

ASSESSMENT

Practical—Improvisation, use of Explorative Strategies (hot seating, still image etc.), drama medium and the elements of drama

Written—portfolio covering - Response, Development and Evaluation

 Internally marked and externally moderated

PAPER 2 DRAMA PERFORMANCE  40%

This paper is concerned with the skills required in drama to perform work to an audience.  Students have the opportunity to demonstrate their skills as a performer using appropriate material as stimulus for performance.

Working in groups of up to 6, students devise, write, direct and perform an original piece of theatre.   Working time is between 6—10 weeks.

ASSESSMENT

Externally examined by a visiting examiner to the centre