VISION
To make excellent readers, writers, and thinkers
- To maintain outstanding outcomes for our students to ensure they have the skills, knowledge and qualifications to pursue any opportunity
- To instill a love and enthusiasm for English
- To give students the skills they need to partake and exist within society
Key Stage 3 - Years 7 to 9
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Autumn
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Spring
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Summer
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Year 7
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Drama key skills
In this topic students will learn the core skills used in drama focusing on how to use their voice and physicality to improvise and bring a short script to life.
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Physical theatre
Students will study Frantic assembly, a physical theatre practitioner and focus on creating a drama piece based on chair duets.
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Scripted performance
Students will explore different staging used in drama performances and will rehearse and perform a scene from Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.
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Knowledge Organiser Link
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Year 7
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Year 7
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Year 7
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Year 8
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Devising strategies
This topic is an introduction to devising and the different strategies practitioners use to create a performance from a stimulus.
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Physical theatre
Frantic assembly: round-by-through. Following on from studying chair duets in year 7, this term students will learn another technique from Frantic assembly, Round-by-through with counterbalances and small lift work.
The final performance will count towards the summer ROA
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Scripted performance: Room 13
Following on from year 7, students will learn how to rehearse and perform a scene from ‘Room 13’ focusing on use of vocal skills, use of space and blocking.
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Knowledge Organiser Link
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Year 8
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Year 8
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Year 8
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Year 9
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Scripted performance: Our day out
In this topic, students will consolidate their knowledge and understanding of how to use their vocal and physical skills to give an effective performance. Students will also explore different types of staging along with lighting and sound design.
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Physical theatre
Drama practitioners.
Students will learn about different drama practitioners and styles including Brecht, meta theatre, mime and physical theatre.
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Devising strategies
Students will learn how to respond to a given stimulus to create a pieces of theatre in any chosen style studied in year 9.
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Knowledge Organiser Link
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Year 9
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Year 9
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Year 9
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Curriculum Overview Key Stage 4 – Years 10-11
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Autumn
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Spring
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Summer
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Year 10
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Component 3 preparation -
Scripted performance: DNA and another contrasting script.
Pupils will develop their ability to perform an existing piece of theatre through the development of 2 short scenes from plays in different genres. These will then be performed with full costume. Lighting and sound.
Pupils will also practice writing a concept proforma for each performance.
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Component 4 section A - Blood Brothers
Pupils will explore Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers in preparation for section A of the written paper. Pupils will discover how to communicate the playwright’s intentions, themes and context can be communicated to an audience using both acting and design in performance through practical exploration. Pupils will then develop their ability to answer exam questions using this knowledge to prepare for the terminal exam in Year 11
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Unit 1/2 : Devising
This term students will develop their understanding of devising strategies in response from stimuli set by the exam board. Students will explore the stimuli and start to prepare their group piece for the devising exam (Autumn term of year 11)
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Knowledge Organiser Link
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Year 10 Autumn Term
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Year 10 Spring Term
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Year 10 Summer Term
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Year 11
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Unit 1/2: Devising
Students will rehearse and perform their devising exam and complete the coursework element.
When completed, students will revisit Blood Brothers in preparation for the mock exam
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Unit 3: Presenting and performing texts.
Students will successfully perform selected scenes from a published text as part of a group and a monologue. This is a live exam and students will perform in front of an external examiner.
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Unit 4: exam preparation
Students will consolidate their knowledge of Blood Brothers (Section B) and the chosen live performance for section A of the exam.
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Knowledge Organiser Link
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Year 11 Autumn Term
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Year 11 Spring Term
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Year 11 Summer Term
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Exam Board Links
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GCSE - Drama (9-1) - J316 (from 2016) - OCR
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Wider Reading
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Extra-curricular opportunities
We recommend that you engage with as many drama extra-curricular clubs as possible in order to develop your acting skills and to experience a range of genres. Students should audition for school productions and plays.
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Throughout the course, students will be invited to attend school trips to productions at the Mayflower Southampton and/or the Lighthouse Poole and should take full advantage of these trips to aid them to succeed in the written exam where they will be expected to write in detail about a live production they have experienced.
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Other Links (social media, YouTube)
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Career opportunities and resources (UL)
After studying GCSE drama, students successfully go on to study drama or theatre studies at sixth form or colleges.
Alumni have gone on to work in the profession as actors, pantomime dames and backstage.
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