The perfect resource when you have a costume candidate in a class full of actors. This booklet is applicable to any project they do - scripted or devising - and is structured so that they can be independent learners and drive their own learning in planning, developing and completing the lighting for large-scale Drama projects. The booklet can be completed as classwork or homework and complements any practical project. It also serves as evidence to support grading. There are many short written tasks, as well as space to design and develop ideas.

The perfect resource when you have a lighting candidate in a class full of actors. This booklet is applicable to any project they do - scripted or devising - and is structured so that they can be independent learners and drive their own learning in planning, developing and completing the lighting for large-scale Drama projects. The booklet can be completed as classwork or homework and complements any practical project. It also serves as evidence to support grading. There are many short written tasks, as well as space to design and develop ideas.

The perfect resource when you have a set design candidate in a class full of actors. This booklet is applicable to any project they do - scripted or devising - and is structured so that they can be independent learners and drive their own learning in planning, developing and completing the lighting for large-scale Drama projects. The booklet can be completed as classwork or homework and complements any practical project. It also serves as evidence to support grading. There are many short written tasks, as well as space to design and develop ideas.

Technician’s Logbook: Component 2 - BTEC Level 1/Level 2 Tech Award in Performing Arts: Acting. A workbook for actors that includes written theory tasks, progress markers and diary entries to reflect on progress etc.

A KS4 scheme for Eduqas GCSE Drama Component 2 - Performing from a Text. It covers the full rehearsal process, preparing two extracts for performance. It covers: script, blocking, characterisation, rehearsal, tension, climax, tech & dress rehearsals, evaluation. I use the plays ‘Blackout’ or ‘Girls Like That’ and there are slides included for both of these plays, but these can be easily replaced with slides about plays of your choosing. The scheme is applicable to any text.

A KS3 Drama scheme that explores the physical theatre company DV8 and applies their work to verbatim text about a range of topics (climate change, witness accounts from the Titanic, witness acounts from 9/11). I teach this to Y9 following a scheme about Frantic Assesmbly, preceding a devising scheme afterwards.

A Y11 GCSE Drama scheme for the Eduqas specification. The set text is ‘Find Me’ by Olwen Wymark (you will need copies of the text for the students). The scheme assumes that the students have already learned the key words used for characterisation, staging and the technical elements. It covers each of the questions on the exam paper, focusing on: performing a line, performing an extract, selecting a scene from the wider play, physical and vocal skills, motivation, interaction, lighting, sound, set and costume. It also covers the Live Theatre review. The text used is a recording of ‘A Monster Calls’, but this can be easily adapted for another. It covers writing about specific moments of the play, as well as evaluating the scenes. The download includes a revision guide, including the key content needed for the exam. You will also need downloaded past papers from the Eduqas website.

A Drama Scheme of Learning for a full term about William Golding’s ‘Lord Of The Flies’. The scheme includes a 10 minute adaptation of the play for five actors (this version is adapted for girls, but could easily be for boys or mixed gender groups). The lessons cover: ensemble, status, blocking, call and response, chorus, climax and tension. It was designed for Y7 classes at a girls’ grammar school, but it could easily work for older students too. The bundle includes the PowerPoint scheme and the downloadable script.

A simple devising scheme that can be used with any KS3 Drama class. The stimulus can be changed to absolutely anything you want and the structure of the scheme will work. Lessons include: responding to stimulus, development of ideas, structuring material, dramatic potential, exposition, transition, climax.

This KS3 Drama scheme explores Frantic Assembly’s skills before applying them to a scene from Shakespeare’s ‘Othello’. It builds on skills learnt in a previous scheme (‘The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nigh-Time’), but these can be easily learnt at the beginning of the scheme, following the video links on the PowerPoint. It also covers flight paths and hymn hands. The script is provided. To teach the scheme, you will need plastic cups and some broom handles, which are fairly easy to acquire at hardware stores.

A KS3 Drama scheme for 6 weeks that covers the basics of non-naturalism, which will then build the foundations for study of practitioners. The scheme covers: symbolism, transitions, breaking the fourth wall, dislocation, dynamics and ensemble. The scheme culminates in an assessment that uses the opening scene from ‘Blackout’ by Davey Anderson. I use this scheme for Y7, but it can be fore any KS3 yeargroup.

A scheme of learning for KS3 that covers the elements of tech (lighting, sound, set and costume) through the play ‘A Monster Calls’. You will need copies of the scripts for students to read, or a video recording of the stage show. After learning about tech and the play, students stage one of the Monster’s tales, using a standardised kit. Each group will need the same objects - a torch, some coloured gels, a white sheet, a short length of rope, a staging block, an instrument - which they then use to stage the scene. The scheme is ideal to be taught to Y8, although it could be for any KS3 yeargroup.

A scheme for KS3 Drama about Stanislavski and Naturalism. It covers the basics of his theory and techniques, focusing on given circumstances, hotseating, magic if, units, objectives and motivation. The scheme uses chunks of text from the plays ‘DNA’ by Dennis Kelly, ‘Beautiful Thing’ by Jonathan Harvey and ‘Two’ by Jim Cartwright. The end of the scheme sees students performing scenes from these plays and applying Stanislavski’s techniques during rehearsals. All resources are included. I teach this scheme to Y8, but it could easily be fore Y9 too - or even older.

A scheme of learning about Ancient Greek Theatre, aimed at KS3. Ideally, this would be taught to Y7s as an introduction to non-naturalism. The scheme focuses on chorus, mask, direct address, breaking the fourth wall and narration and these are applied to the Ancient Greek myths (Kidnap of Persephone, Perseus & Medusa, Pandora’s Box). The scheme ends with students applying the skills learned to a modern text - Malala’s speech to the United Nations. All scripts are attached and the scheme should last a full term.

A full scheme of learning that covers Brecht as a practitioner for KS4. The scheme covers: narration, breaking role, speaking stage directions, placards, direct address, V-Effekt, alienation, multi-roling, symbolic props, split role, gestus, stock characters, montage, episodic structure and spass. There are 6 workshops (which can last one or more lessons) plus a multi-week assessment task. Scripts are included with the bundle for all tasks. NOTE: The scheme assumes that students have learnt about naturalism before and know who Stanislavski is, althought it can be easily adapted to remove this if needed.

COMPONENT 1 This is a complete PowerPoint scheme to cover the ENTIRE UNIT of Component 1 of the BTEC Level 1/2 Tech Award Performing Arts: Acting for the 2022 New Specification. It also includes a blank workbook to use alongside the scheme, as well as a guide booklet, which scaffolds the brief, broken into handy sections to meet the assessment outcomes. The specification specifies that students should study three texts during the course, but are assessed for just one. Therefore, this scheme assumes that you teach Component 1 immediately after Component 2, as well as studying a third text during an introductory scheme for the course. Therefore there is only a requirement to explore one text here. We have chosen the musical ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’. The scheme breaks down the play’s style, genre and the roles of people who collaborated on it. It looks at acting, choreography and symbolism with practical workshops, scaffolded sessions for writing the students’ blog and guidance through the journal. IMPORTANT: The scheme relies on access to a recording of live the play. There is a recording of this play on YouTube, but if you cannot access it, the scheme is deliberately written so it will be easy to adapt to another play. You will also need a copy of the text too.

This is a complete PowerPoint scheme to cover the ENTIRE UNIT of Component 3 of the BTEC Level 1/2 Tech Award Performing Arts: Acting. All you need to do is add the stimulus and brief requirements directly from the exam paper when it is released. This is a scheme that facilitates the students’ work fully through the devising process from stimulus until performance. It also guides the students through the process of preparing for each of the controlled assessments, with details of what to include in their Skills Log, Ideas Log and Evaluation Report. The unit uses the examplar assignment brief from the BTEC website.

12 Lesson Drama scheme of learning about the play The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, including tutorials on how to use simple Physical Theatre skills from Frantic Assembly. The scheme covers two sections of text, in which students perform these using Frantic’s skills.

This SOL PowerPoint is an introduction to the BTEC Level 1/2 Tech Award Performing Arts: Acting. It is designed to last approximately 20 lessons, or a half-term. It includes a devising baseline task - which reflects Component 3 - and a scripted task - which reflects Component 2. It also teaches lots of key terminology, which prepares for Component 1. NOTE: In order to teach this unit, you will need access to the play ‘Two’ by Jim Cartwright, as the second half of the SOL focuses on the Roy & Lesley scene from this play. However, this could easily be substituted with a duologue from another play if you wanted.

10 Lesson project-based Drama scheme of learning about Kneehigh’s Hansel & Gretel. Students rehearse and perform a section of text from the play confined in a small box marked on the floor in white tape in the style of Off Balance’s Robin Hood (link included), adding new skills each lesson. Resource includes: PowerPoint Lessons, Scheme Overview, Lesson Resources, Knowledge Organiser.