This Technical Theatre Word Bank Resource is perfect for helping students to reflect and write up their assignments. Featuring technical theatre key vocab for Lighting, Sound, Projection (AV) and Stage Management. It also includes key literacy vocab for adding ideas, Explaining Evidence, Sequence/ Time Order and Concluding. This comprehensive word bank is a must-have for budding technicians and theatre enthusiasts alike. Get your resource today!

Use this visual display to help prompt students when writing up their BTEC assignments. Whether you’re guiding a reflective log or tackling assessment criteria, this resource is a must-have!

These questions have been developed using the highly-regarded Bloom’s Taxonomy, providing a framework and questions that stimulate higher-order thinking skills in their students for Technical Theatre Topics (Lighting, Sound, AV & Stage Management) Perfect for stretching those Gifted and Talented groups!

Teach your students an introduction into Live sound train them on the basic use of the Allen & Heath SQ7 Sound Desk. This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students about the different types of scene breakdowns and how to successfully create a scene breakdown for a production and how to use excel to develop skills. This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students an introduction into QLab and how to use the features of QLab successfully within a production. **This lesson used top songs from the charts taken from 2023. You will need to update the slides and provide your own songs for the task. This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students an introduction into stage lighting and train them on the basic use of the ETC ION Lighting Desk. They can also practice their programming skills in real time as they listen to award-winning Lighting Designer Ken Billington direct his lighting team for the production of New York City Center Encores’ Me and My Girl. (Association of Lighting Designers) This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students the importance and how to successfully fit radio mics for a theatre production, how to set up, run and operate radio mics and the skills needed to work within the sound department (Sound No.2) This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Teach your students the importance of interrelations (within theatre production design) and how to successfully work together with the Lighting Designer, Make Up Designer and Costume Designer to understand how colour theory for costume (fabric) and make up is affected under stage lights This lesson includes the Accelerated Learning Cycle.

Sound Early Finisher Activities . Use this collection of easy, yet purposeful early finisher activities to deal with early finishers in the classroom. Over 20 sound design tasks to help to develop students’ knowledge and understanding, challenge students. They can even be used for revision and independent study.

Lighting Early Finisher Activities . Use this collection of easy, yet purposeful early finisher activities to deal with early finishers in the classroom. Over 20 lighting design tasks to help to develop students’ knowledge and understanding, challenge students. They can even be used for revision and independent study.

In technical theatre we use a lot of specialist language. It will be important that we can all communicate clearly using the right language. This dictionary is a beginners’ list of terminology and helps students to understand key terms and be able to refer to when they need help spelling key terminology or what a word means - helping them to write independently. These are great to print for individually for students, support and scaffold for SEND students or to have a group/table resources to refer to. Included: -General Theatre Terms -Types of Stages & Stage Directions -Production Process -Technical Theatre Cables -Hierarchy & Job Roles -Unions and Associations -BTEC Glossary - support with assignment briefs.

Theatre Company with roles explained. Talk Drama and technical theatre / production arts students through the roles needed within a Theatre and the roles and responsibilities needed for each person. This resource includes a full lesson presentation with worksheets for students to complete on each role as well as activities such as word searches, crosswords, quizes and Kahoots.

Teach students how to cut and label lighting gel to industry standard with this educational poster.

Teach your students all about Health & Safety and risks to look out for when working within Production Arts. This lesson covers; -PPE -COSHH -HAZARDS IN SET,AND PAINTSHOP -HAZARDS IN COSTUME -HAZARDS IN HAIR AND MAKEUP -HAZARDS IN TECHNICAL THEATRE -SAFE SYSTEMS OF WORK -MANUAL HANDLING -CONTROLLING RISKS

Based off Gibbs Reflective Cycle and Driscoll/ Borton’s Model of Reflection this lesson will teach students how to critically evaluate their practice with this Critical Thinking lesson. This lesson allows students to compare an example of a good reflective evaluation to a weak reflective evaluation and to construct an action plan using feedback to develop their work to become distinction level. This lesson is based around the BTEC Nationals Production Arts Practice (2019) grading criteria for Technical Theatre. However, can be adapted.

The language of theatre is littered with strange and often confusing abbreviations for different things. This Technical Theatre Abbreviations contains an alphabetical list of words relating to productions arts and theatre industry. This can be used to support students learning or as an activity to complete the blank glossary when they learn a new definition. They can also return to this as and when it’s useful. Abbreviations are also complete with Stage Directions.