Welcome to the Drama area
Head of Department – Miss M. Hall
Through Drama we enable students to use dramatic techniques, including working in role to explore powerful ideas and texts. We place the teaching of Literacy at the heart of all drama lessons. Moreover, we will equip students with the skills to become confident, articulate, leaders who can negotiate and solve problems to ensure that all our students are able to fulfil their potential.
Staffing
| Co-ordinator of Dance & Drama | Miss M. Hall – BA (Hons) Dance |
| Assistant Headteacher & Teacher of Drama | Mrs L. Provoost – BA (Hons) Theatre Studies and English F.R.S.A |
| Assistant Headteacher & Teacher of Drama | Mrs S. Davies – BA (Hons) Drama |
| Teacher of Drama | Mrs H. Henrys – BA (Hons) Media and Performance |
Per Term Topic Information
Year 7
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Script: Page to Stage Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations | Pantomime Performance in Partnership with Bury College | Developing drama skills and techniques | Poetry Recall – Charge of the Light Brigade | Working with set text monologues & duologues Theme: Villains | Devising from a brief Physical Theatre |
| Notes: the main set text for year 7 will be Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations. | |||||
Year 8
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| From page to stage- Set text: Willy Russel’s ‘Our Day Out.’ | Retrieving information from a text to plan a drama | Memory Recall- ‘Quotations’ | Developing skills and techniques in drama: Gothic Horror | Romeo and Juliet- Tragedy. | Devising a Drama From a stimulus |
| Notes: the main set text for year 8 will be Our Day Out | |||||
Year 10
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Developing skills and techniques in drama: War WW1 | Character development: Stanislavski’s Given Circumstance | Retrieving information from a text – From page to stage | Hit and Run Horror | Real World – Documentary Verbatim theatre | Devising: Performing to a drama Set Stimulus: Time Changes Everything |
| Notes: the main set text for year 9 will be Blood Brothers | |||||
Year 11
| Autumn 2 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to Acting Easter Island performance | Acting skills and techniques workshops | Unit 2 Plan, Prepare, Perform | Unit 2 Scripted performance | Unit 3 Acting Skills Learning Aim A |
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Year 11
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 | Spring 1 | Spring 2 | Summer 1 |
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| Unit 3: Acting Skills Learning Aim B – Performance 1 | Unit 1: Monologue 1 | Unit 1: Monologue 2 | Acting workshops | Unit 3: Acting Skills Learning Aim B – Performance 2 |
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Curriculum
Year 7
| No. of lessons per fortnight | Frequency and length of homework | Additional learning opportunities e.g. clubs, speakers, visits, residential … | Department support e.g. intervention classes, revision classes … | Additional guidance for parents e.g. exam board info, websites to support revision, books to read, useful places to visit … |
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| 2 | Key Stage 3 students will receive one piece of written homework each half-term: Weekly spelling tests. Writing to evaluate: Skills definitions Techniques definitions Writing in-role Writing to analyse: skills development | Easter Island performance Pantomime trip Regional theatre visit Apply to lead a Y6 drama workshop Whole school production | Monday 12:45 – 1:15pm KS3 drama workshop led by KS4 students Thursday 3:30 – 4:30pm KS3&4 open rehearsal | Useful Websites BBC The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe http://www.pushtheatre.org BBC Bitesize Drama Charles Causley: What Has Happened To Lulu? Local Places to Visit The Met theatre, The Lowry, Media City, The Palace Theatre, The Opera House, The Corner House, Home, Bolton Octagon |
Year 8
| No. of lessons per fortnight | Frequency and length of homework | Additional learning opportunities e.g. clubs, speakers, visits, residential … | Department support e.g. intervention classes, revision classes … | Additional guidance for parents e.g. exam board info, websites to support revision, books to read, useful places to visit … |
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| 2 | Role-on-the-wall Research shower Annotating a script Retrieving information from a text Skills analysis Ideas selected and rejected record | Regional theatre visit Professional workshops Whole school production | Monday 12:45 – 1:15pm KS3 drama workshop led by KS4 students Thursday 3:30 – 4:30pm KS3&4 open rehearsal | YouTube Darkwood Manor trailer CBeebies Panto: Aladdin Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations, Scene 1 BazLurman’s Romeo & Juliet |
Year 9
| No. of lessons per fortnight | Frequency and length of homework | Additional learning opportunities e.g. clubs, speakers, visits, residential … | Department support e.g. intervention classes, revision classes … | Additional guidance for parents e.g. exam board info, websites to support revision, books to read, useful places to visit … |
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| 2 | Research shower Annotating a script Role-on-the-wall Ideas selected and rejected record Retrieving information from a text Skills analysis | Regional theatre visit Professional workshops Whole school production | Monday 12:45 – 1:15pm KS3 drama workshop led by KS4 students Thursday 3:30 – 4:30pm KS3&4 open rehearsal | YouTube Epic History: World War One – 1914 Stanislavski building a character Willy Russell’s Our Day Out BBC Bitesize Drama |
Key Stage 4
| No. of lessons per fortnight | Frequency and length of homework | Additional learning opportunities e.g. clubs, speakers, visits, residential … | Department support e.g. intervention classes, revision classes … | Additional guidance for parents e.g. exam board info, websites to support revision, books to read, useful places to visit … |
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| 5 | Research Workshop logs SMART Target sheets Skills Audit Learning Lines Research Link to exam theme Writing to persuade Formal Writing | Partnership projects with Manchester International Festival Half-termly theatre visits and professional workshops Collaborative performance opportunities with local colleges Local, regional and national performance opportunities | Monday – Friday 12:30 -1:00pm – Open rehearsals Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 3:30-4:30 Teacher led rehearsals | Qualification Pearson/Edexcel BTEC Performing Arts – Acting Useful Websites http://www.pushtheatre.org Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers BBC Bitesize GCSE Drama |
