Drama

KEY STAGE 3:

Students develop skills in creating, performing and evaluating drama at Key Stage 3 in preparation for GCSE Drama.

Study areas include:

• Serious Fun – warm up and team building activities.
• Pantomime
• Stanislavski and Naturalism
• Theatre genres including physical theatre, Epic theatre and Forum theatre
• Issue-based drama (scripts)
• Devising

Students are also given the opportunity to work with visiting theatre companies and audition to be in the whole school production, which is performed to friends and family in the Spring term.

KEY STAGE 4:

Examination Board/Code: AQA GCSE Drama (8261)

Students learn to collaborate with others, think analytically and evaluate effectively.  They gain confidence to pursue their own ideas and reflect and refine their efforts.  Whatever the future holds, students of GCSE drama emerge with a toolkit of transferable skills, applicable both in further studies and in the workplace.

Study areas include:

• Set text analysis and practical exploration (The 39 Steps)
• History of Theatre
• Devising
• Monologues and Duologues
• Key theatre practitioners
• Live Theatre review

Students also have the opportunity to work with directors, playwrights and theatre over the course of the 2 years as well as watch a variety of live theatre productions every term.

www.aqa.org.uk/8261

Post 16:

Examination Board/Code: AQA A Level Drama and Theatre (7262)

Students will:

• Create, perform and respond to drama and theatre
• Develop the creativity and independence to become effective theatre makers
• Explore the relationship between theory and practice in a range of theatrical styles and period and historical, social and cultural context
• Learn how relevant research, independent thought and analysis of live theatre production can inform decision making in their practical work
• Experience the ways in which theatre makers collaborate to create theatre.

Students complete three components – Drama and theatre, creating original drama and making theatre.  For the practical components student choose to work as performer, designers or directors.

www.aqa.org.uk/7262

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