Drama
Curriculum Intent
The Drama Curriculum at Grace Academy Coventry is a knowledge-based curriculum, which provides students with the powerful knowledge needed to create, perform and respond to Drama.
We use Drama as a tool for students to understand the world in which they live, as such we have based our curriculum around four central themes:
- childhood/loss of innocence
- conflict
- identity
- social inequality.
Our spiral curriculum seeks to enable every student to: experience aspects of theatre-making other than performing, devise original pieces of theatre and analyse and perform scripts.
This term, we are studying:
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Year |
Topic(s) |
Why this? Why now? |
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Year 7 |
Live Theatre Evaluation: ‘Shrek The Musical’ |
KS3 Drama is a spiral curriculum, building skills in 3 areas, creating, performing and responding. This term, Year 7 are focusing on the skill of responding. Year 7 students will be looking at the variety of job roles that there are in theatre and all the people that work towards producing a live show. Year 7 will watch ‘Shrek the Musical’ and evaluate how it has impacted them as an audience member. |
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Year 8 |
Devising: Refugees |
KS3 Drama is a spiral curriculum, building skills in 3 areas, creating, performing and responding. This term Year 8 are focusing on the skill of creating. Year 8 will be exploring the topic of “Refugees”, looking at creating a performance that tells the story of refugees and migrants. The students will be looking at the techniques verbatim and conscience corridor as well as using the practitioner Frantic Assembly to create physical theatre performances. |
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Year 9 |
Live Theatre Evaluation: ‘Everybody’s Talking about Jamie’ |
KS3 Drama is a spiral curriculum, building skills in 3 areas, creating, performing and responding. This term, Year 9 are focusing on the skill of responding and will be watching a piece of live theatre and evaluating this as a member of an audience. Year 9 will be watching the musical ‘Everybody’s talking about Jamie’ and evaluating the acting, design and audience impact. |
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Year 10 |
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This term year 10 Drama students will be working towards their NEA in GCSE Drama which counts towards 30% of their final Grade. This will involve them exploring a stimulus to create a performance and provide a supporting portfolio which documents the process they have gone through. This unit is worth 30% of the final GCSE. Year 10 will spend the 2nd half term studying ‘Blood Brothers’ by Willy Russel, they will learn about the social, historical context of the play and how they would perform, direct and design the play. The students will practice a mixture of 4,6 and 8-mark questions in preparation for their final component 4 exam, which they will sit in June. |
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Year 11 |
OCR GCSE: Component 4, Performance and response: Understanding Drama |
Year 11 will spend this term revisiting their learning for their written GCSE Drama exam that is 1hr 30 minutes and that they will sit on the 9th May. They will revise Section B, which is on their set text ‘Blood Brothers’, the students need to know the plot and context of the play as well as how they would direct and perform the play and how they would design set, lighting and costume. The students will practice a mixture of 4,6 and 8-mark questions in preparation. Section B of the exam requires the students to evaluate a piece of live theatre that they have seen. The students will be using the PETER structure to evaluate the performance of ‘2:22 A Ghost Story’ that they saw in November. This will be a 30 mark question in the final paper. |
Qualification information:
https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse/drama-j316-from-2016/
Curriculum content:
Attached are the curriculum maps which outline the sequence we use in order to structure our learning. If you would like to support your child's learning, we have attached links to Oak National Academy who provide lessons, activities and resources for commonly taught topics. Please use the curriculum map for this subject before visiting:
https://teachers.thenational.academy/subjects/drama/key-stages/key-stage-3