Drama

The Drama curriculum aims to develop students’ confidence, self-esteem and social skills.

Drama lessons focus on the development of key Drama skills, such as improvisation and mime, and students are given opportunities to contribute ideas to small-group and whole-class performances. There is a strong focus on facilitating students’ communication of different emotions through the development of their awareness of body-language, tone of voice and facial expressions and their recognition of those emotions in others. Students learn to explore imagined situations and to develop empathy skills by exploring the world through the eyes of different characters.    

There are opportunities for students to reinforce their literacy skills through reading and developing play-scripts and by adding expression to lines they have read or learned.  Stimuli such as poetry, film extracts and play-scripts are used as a springboard for students to develop their own improvised scenes.  They are provided with opportunities to perform and get involved in different productions throughout their school career, most notably our annual Harvest and Christmas productions    

In Key Stage 4, the Drama curriculum centres on the Bronze Arts Award, which involves students watching and reviewing performances, evaluating their own work, researching their favourite actors and teaching Drama skills to younger students, as well as performing in front of others.  Most importantly, throughout their school career, students are encouraged to foster a love of Drama and of using their imagination and creativity in learning.