Drama

Our Drama curriculum ensures that every pupil develops the confidence, creativity and character to engage with the world around them through creating, performing and critically exploring a wide range of drama and theatre.

Every student has the opportunity to access and participate in a rich range of performing arts experiences, building both their cultural capital and personal development. As part of the academy's commitment to an education with character, students develop the confidence to become lifelong learners, articulate communicators and reflective individuals. Drama encourages collaboration, resilience, empathy and independent thinking, equipping students with transferable skills that will support them in whatever aspirations they choose to pursue.

Students are exposed to progressively ambitious play texts and live theatre, deepening their understanding of how drama communicates meaning whilst supporting wider literacy. We inspire creativity and performance by equipping students with theatrical knowledge, practical techniques and expressive skills. Through exploring a range of genres, styles and practitioners, students learn how theatre can shape ideas, challenge perspectives and engage audiences. Our curriculum enables students to express their own ideas with confidence, appreciate the viewpoints of others and respond thoughtfully to dramatic works from the perspective of both performer and audience.

Above all, we aim to provide students with the transferable skills and personal qualities that extend far beyond the stage, preparing them to flourish in further education, future careers and the wider world.

Year 7

In Year 7, students are introduced to drama and theatre. They learn the origins of theatre from storytelling to Greek theatre and commedia dell’arte. Students develop the essential vocal and physical skills they need throughout Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4. Using the play Blood Brothers, students study texts and build rehearsal techniques to create and develop characters. They explore accent and dialect, building confidence and self-awareness to perform in front of their peers. They learn to work with other students to create performances and improvisations. Students also explore the National Theatre’s live version of Peter Pan and consider how this has been successfully adapted from a book to a film to a play. They go on to create their own script and performance.

Year 8

In Year 8, students take their knowledge of vocal and physical skills and develop them in a new context whilst working creatively in three contrasting styles of theatre: physical, naturalistic and epic theatre. Students begin to explore more complex theatrical concepts and techniques including canon and unison, breaking the fourth wall and vocal intonation. Students describe and explain their vocal and physical choices for characters and what emotions and effects these portray to the audience.

Year 9

Students explore vocational opportunities in drama whilst staging a set text DNA by Dennis Kelly, looking at both acting and design. They use their collaborative skills, performance, building on rehearsal skills and techniques from Year 7 and Year 8 to interpret the script and characters. Students then have the opportunity to adapt one of William Shakespeare’s plays and begin to look at devising a piece of theatre, combining a modern context with centuries-old language. As a culmination to their learning in key stage three, students produce a devised piece of theatre from given stimuli for a live audience, drawing together concepts and skills from across the full curriculum.

Learning

Drama

Address

Contacts

School day

Follow Us

Quick Links