I have been working in education for the last twelve years across a variety of subjects but specialising in drama and the performing arts. I have uploaded a variety of schemes of work that will take around six hours to deliver and I hope you enjoy using them in your classroom as much as I have!
I have been working in education for the last twelve years across a variety of subjects but specialising in drama and the performing arts. I have uploaded a variety of schemes of work that will take around six hours to deliver and I hope you enjoy using them in your classroom as much as I have!
Five word documents that detail progress routes for years seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven from grades 1 to 9 in each year group and what we as teachers should be looking for certain levels in drama.
This twenty page coursework guide can be printed and handed out to your students as a guide for how to structure section one, two and three for their devising drama coursework.
This thirty four page revision guide can be printed and handout out to your students as a guide for how to answer section A, B and C of the written paper.
The guide has Blood Brothers as the set text for section B and the Woman in Black for the live theatre review for section C; but feel free to adapt and change as necessary to suit your chosen texts.
This thirty page homework guide can be printed and handout out to your students as a guide for how to answer section A, B and C of the written paper.
The guide has Blood Brothers as the set text for section B and the Woman in Black for the live theatre review for section C; but feel free to adapt and change as necessary to suit your chosen texts.
A collection of writing frames for GCSE drama AQA 8261 for section B and C for the written paper.
Please feel free to adapt as necessary to your chosen texts as section B for me was Blood Brothers and section C was the Woman in Black.
A great powerpoint which contains ten different drama games and warm ups that can be used in a range of different scenarios to hook your students as they enter or even leave the drama studio.
Drama games and warm ups contained in this powerpoint include:
Activity one: Stuck in the mud.
Activity two: The floor is lava.
Activity three: The ten objects.
Activity four: The living museum.
Activity five: Grandmother’s footsteps.
Activity six: Wink murder.
Activity seven: The chieftain’s table.
Activity eight: Getting to know you.
Activity nine: Chair train.
Activity ten: Law and order.
All of these games have clear visual instructions for the students and teacher to follow and most contain sound effects to build the environment needed to play them within.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on the play Blackout by Davey Anderson with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to explore the key themes within Blackout through theatrical techniques such as tableau’s, soundscapes and flash forwards.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to use physical theatre to explore the opening of the play Blackout.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to bring scene three to life using choral speech, gestus and stage combat while examining the key theme of domestic abuse and whether this has affected James when it comes to the violent crime he has committed.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to explore the theme of mental health deterioration in Blackout through tableau’s, gestures, stage combat and physical theatre techniques in scene eleven.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to consider the role theatre can have in the reformation of offenders and to practically explore the penultimate scene using multirole.
Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to rehearse, polish and assess our version of an extract from Blackout for a performance assessment in the problems with youth offending.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on the Vikings with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to understand the history and origins of the Vikings in Britain and use theatrical skills such as tableau’s, physical theatre and role play to explore Viking characters
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to understand the Norse Myth of ‘Thor in Utgard’; through the use of freeze frames, physical theatre and flashbacks.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to understand the Norse Myth of ‘Viking creation’ through the use of freeze frames, soundscapes and role play.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to create and understand a Viking feast through freeze frames, spontaneous improvisation and role play.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to create a dramatic performance based on a Viking battle and a dead soldier’s arrival at Valhalla through freeze frames, Richard Wagner’s ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ and role play.
Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to create a documentary piece of drama, based on a discovery at an archaeological dig site near York, through the use of freeze frames, hot seating and flashbacks.
An excellent KS4 revision resource for GCSE drama AQA 8261 specification on section A, B and C with a complete and ready to go three lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work you get access to three lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the three core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this three lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to consolidate information and revise for the written paper for section A.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to consolidate information and revise for the written paper for section B.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to consolidate information and revise for the written paper for section C.
Please feel free to adapt as section B for me was Blood Brothers and section C was the Woman in Black.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on types of staging with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn how to effectively use a thrust stage in an exaggerated performance of a section of Alice in Wonderland.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to solidify their knowledge about the thrust staging configuration.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to explore an in-the-round staging configuration by performing Rosie’s monologue.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to solidify their knowledge about the theatre in the round staging configuration.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to use melodrama as an artistic style to bring a performance to life using a traverse stage.
Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment based on Romeo and Juliet that examines their ability to create a performance on either a trust, theatre in the round or traverse stage.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Stanislavski spy school with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to demonstrate and explore naturalism and method of acting in performance.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to create a convincing spy through method acting techniques and a role on the wall to portray a truthful character in performance.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to avoid capture as an agent and use the acting technique the ‘Magic If’ to help create a convincing spy.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to use tempo and rhythm when developing their spy.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to demonstrate the use of emotion memory and sense memory to create truthful reactions for our spies.
Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on how to use our super-objectives, objectives, active objectives and obstacles to help them to create a convincing Spy and realism in acting.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on technical theatre with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn and understand stage lighting and create specific lighting effects on the stage.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn and understand stage make up design through practicing applying a base, creating shadows and contour lines to make your performer into Frankenstein.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn understand costume design through creating and designing a costume template for a character and designing a costume plot for a chosen play extract.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn and understand the role of a sound designer in film or stage productions.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn and understand the role of a set designer in film or stage productions.
Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on all of the knowledge and information they have gained in the past lessons about technical theatre into a final presentation project.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Noughts and Crosses with a complete and ready to go seven lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work you get access to seven lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the seven core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to explore the theme of racism by creating a movement sequence of the protest outside Heathcroft School in the play Noughts and Crosses.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to use physical theatre techniques such as distant puppetry and stage combat to create a piece of drama which educates the audience on the bullying that Sephy encounters at school.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to use physical theatre and slow motion to explore the chaos occurring during the bombing in the shopping centre.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to understand what a split scene is and how to use it to create the idea of a news report being filmed in act one scene twenty one.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to understand what an objective is and how to use this to create a convincing character of either Callum or Mr Corsa during their duologue.
Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to work as an ensemble to self-direct Ryan’s reprieve in the prison execution chamber using direct address, choral movement and physical theatre.
Lesson seven: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on act two scene eight that represents the prison execution chamber for our end of unit assessment.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on A Midsummer Night’s Dream with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around **80 to 100 slides **over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to examine and understand Shakespearian theatre conventions in preparation for studying ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to understand the role of status in Shakespearian audiences through our physical and vocal skills and how do we demonstrate and explore the characters of the upper class in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn how to explore the characters of the fairies in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn how to explore the characters of the Rude Mechanicals in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn the different design roles in the theatre and how to apply these to a Shakespearean extract.
Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on the different design roles in the theatre and how these can be applied to a Shakespearean extract.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Applying theatre practitioners with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to use Brecht’s teachings on gestus to multirole effectively as contrasting characters from a set play text.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to develop their application, knowledge and understanding of naturalistic acting techniques such as the given circumstances and the magic if to articulate a true performance to an extract of a script from Stanislavski’s ‘System Theatre’.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to apply and understand the way in which Brecht’s ‘Epic Theatre’ techniques such as foreshadowing and narration can be used in a performance to break the fourth wall in front of the audience.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to apply and understand the way in which Grotowski’s ‘Poor Theatre’ techniques such as physicality, soundscapes and choral speech can be used in a performance to build the relationship between the actor and the audience.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to recap the theories of Stanislavski, Brecht and Grotowski through rehearsing a performance called “The Greedy Monster”.
Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on the theories of Stanislavski, Brecht and Grotowski through a performance called “The Greedy Monster”.
