I am an 'Outstanding' qualified Secondary Drama teacher who currently teaches KS3 & KS4 English and KS3-KS5 Drama. I have also taught KS1 for two consecutive years prior to this.
I own a First BA (hons) degree in Drama and Performance and have been teaching for three years.
I am an 'Outstanding' qualified Secondary Drama teacher who currently teaches KS3 & KS4 English and KS3-KS5 Drama. I have also taught KS1 for two consecutive years prior to this.
I own a First BA (hons) degree in Drama and Performance and have been teaching for three years.
6 slide Power Point focusing on Roald Dahl’s ‘The Twits’.
Focus points are:
Cross-Cutting
Action Clip
Freeze Frame
Hot Seating
Narration
Role Play
Script / Sections of the story have been copied into the presentation for reference.
Music is also available for stimulus and support.
Also included for printout: Character labels, script and a lesson plan.
This pack includes:
Power Point presentation for classroom use
Word document printouts that further explain characters for visual / revision aid and script to follow Commedia Dell’Arte format.
Power Point presentation consists of 6 slides. These slides cover key characters and modern day representation of notable characteristics, success criteria and scenario starters for practical exploration.
This 38 page Power Point slide explores the role, responsibility, skills and opportunities that a director faces.
This Power Point also includes a ‘key word’ page, examples of both female and male directors, video footage of directors discussing their craft, tips on how to gain work experience if someone wished to explore this role further and activities to try out the role of being a director themselves.
Finally, this presentation includes a quiz for pupils to engage with as a variation of how revision is conducted in learning.
This 32 page Power Point presentation explores the role of Set Designer in the theatre industry.
The presentation explores the role, responsibilities, skills and resources needed for this role. This is followed by examples of notable designers, video interview footage, tips on how to gain experience in this field as a beginner and activities to try out the role of being a Set Designer in class.
Following this is a clear breakdown (with images) on how the process of designing a set takes place in the world of theatre.
Both maximalism and minimalism is explored.
Finally, a quiz is included at the end of this quiz to provide an alternative method of revision.
This pack includes two lesson presentations and two print out Word documents for visual aid or revision.
These lessons focus on the stagecraft of Commedia, characters and notable characteristics, masks and exploration of physical theatre and script / scenario stimuli.
This pack includes:
Power Point presentation for classroom use
Word document printouts that further explain the use of Masks in style and prinout opportunities for visual / revision aid and a script to follow.
Power Point presentation consists of 6 slides. These slides stimulate conversation on masks used in day-to-day life, how masks can restrict areas of performance in theatre and how it can benefit and enhance others. Also included are success criteria stems and a script.
This 6 slide Power Point presentation explores different roles in the world of theatre that do not just focus on being an actor.
This lesson allows conversation and research into a variety of important roles and gives pupils the chance to focus on Drama as a subject of choice and differentiation.
Areas of focus are:
Lighting Technician
Sound Designer
Director
Costume Designer
This lesson delves into these roles at a KS3/ early KS4 level. If this was to be adapted for personal use, it could easily be extended for later KS4 and KS5.
This Power Point presentation consists of 8 slides.
Learning Objective: To explore Pantomime stock characters and successfully demonstrate them.
This presentation starts with a challenge to identify images of stock characters and label their roles / names. For further challenge, pupils can list other stock characters with similar roles in different Pantomimes.
Following this is a success criteria list reading for practical exploration. The practical task for this lesson is to create a short scene in groups with identifiable stock characters that have been discussed earlier in the lesson.
A scenario has been included in this Power Point if prompts are needed for lower ability groups.
A critic board is also included for pupils to follow, should any performances be shown at the end of this lesson. This includes sentence starters on useful and constructive feedback for peers to share.
This lesson also includes a plenary for all that has been discussed / explored within the lesson.
This pack includes:
10 slide Power Point presentation.
Storyboard template printout.
This lesson is designed for a Drama class but can be adapted to fit an English or Media setting.
Focusing on Advertising, this lesson prompts discussion on persuasive language, music, adjectives, direct address and more.
There are video links included that explore different styles of advertisement for different audience types. This prompts discussion on target audiences and how to correctly identify their themes.
Task: Sir Alan Sugar has challenged you with the task of promoting one of the following products through a 30 second TV advertisement:
Note-choose one product only!
Pupils are supplied with 3 different products and descriptions of what they are, what they do and how they benefit the buyer. Pupils are encouraged to use the storyboard (provided as a printout link) to create an advert that would fit their target audience and result in a successful campaign to sell the product.
This Power Point presentation is easily adaptable to focus on Set Design as a whole, rather than just for organising a Pantomime.
This scheme can be used for KS3 and for KS4 as a recap.
This presentation consists of 29 slides.
Learning Objectives:
To gain some awareness of the set design process.
To develop an understanding of the set designer.
This lesson covers:
Staging
Director
Scenic Designer
Production
Stage layouts
Prompt questions on benefits / disadvantages of different stage layouts
Diagrams
Recap Quiz!
Black Box theatre exploration
Design styles (minimalistic, realistic)
Scales
Materials
Transitions
Plenary
Also included is an opportunity for pupils to design their own stage design with the challenge to use as many areas covered in this scheme of work. This is also available as a printable document in the pack.
This 6 slide Power Point is a quick and easy presentation for the introduction of Pantomime in Drama.
This slide introduces Pantomime’s beginning, exploration of genre and a breakdown of history. This follows examples of Panto, character styles with well-known examples, stock characters and theatre techniques.
This Power Point offers no practical activity but can be used as a visual breakdown with discussion points.
Lesson Objective: To introduce pantomime as a genre, exploring its traditions and stock characters.
This bundle includes 3 Power Point presentations.
Each presentation focuses on the different roles in the theatre industry that do not require you to be an actor.
These lessons are aimed for all year groups and are important to include in your curriculum. Not every pupil in your Drama class will want to be an actor and it is important to include the diverse skills that are required to bring any story to page, stage or screen.
Each Power Point can be adapted with personal preference (directors, producers, composers, etc) but all are covered already with video links and images.
I find these lessons to be popular with the pupils who are more reserved when it comes to performing in front of their peers. This allows them opportunities in your lesson time to design sets, play music, etc.
8 slide Power Point advertisement.
Lesson Objective: To prepare and rehearse a radio advertisement.
This lesson encourages pupils to create a radio advertisement for a new cereal product. Their success criteria is to focus on their tone of voice and the importance it plays in persuasion.
(Pupils are encouraged to keep this advertisement as a radio broadcast as this will allow more focus on their voice work).
Before sharing their work with the class, a prompt board has been provided for 20 minutes of work where pupils are encouraged to make a mind map, mini-script, editing and rehearsing and pair and share opportunities.
Slides of this presentation also present a variety of techniques used in both advertising and radio advertising and a checklist of what must be included.
Two lesson presentations on Act One, Scene Six of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, and enhanced focus on Macbeth & Lady Macbeth’s relationship and power dynamic.
Also included: Focus and question stems surrounding both Macbeth & Lady Macbeth’s internal monologues and links to themes within Macbeth.
This also includes document attachments with optional printouts.
Quotes taken from both Macbeth & Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ for students to further analyse, explain WHAT is being suggested, HOW it is shown (work class/technique) and WHY this is/was relevant.
Included are:
Presentation on script expectations in Drama, image board for visual support, and video link of adaptation from the script itself.
PDF script for students to hold.
In this pack includes:
Macbeth context slides (King James I, Witches / Supernatural, Gender roles, Chain of Being, and Heaven & Hell.
Handout contextual sheet from The Harold Pinter theatre’s programme of the 2024 showing of ‘Macbeth’.