This is a set of Powerpoint slides that can be printed out and used within lessons for pupils to self and peer assess their work. Useful for KS3 and KS4 Drama lessons.

Afterlife is a play written for 6 performers and is a compelling, stylised and highly emotive piece of Drama. 6 people wake up in a room. They are strangers. As the play unfolds the characters realise they are related and connected to others in their previous lives. They are in limbo. There are two doors in the room. Through which door will they leave? The play deals with themes of homophobia, homosexuality, domestic abuse, bullying, teenage pregnancy and suicide. It has been performed as part of GCSE Edexcel Unit 3, gaining students the highest grades. It is also a great stimulus for devised/physical theatre work.

This is a Powerpoint for Drama teachers and students to use in the classroom to focus on progress and assessment for learning. The skills covered allow teachers to develop the full range of drama skills required for students to develop as drama practitioners. They include Use of Voice/Working in Groups as well as Characterisation and Development of Ideas.

A detailed Knowledge Organiser exploring Motivation, Voice, Movement, Interaction, Key Terminology, Original Performance Conditions, Costume, Light etc

This is a top mark 15/ 15 response to Section B of the GCSE Drama Live Theatre question.

This is a lesson focusing on Role on the Wall and Hot Seating. Pupils will encounter different characters via links and then get to imagine what it would be like being those people. Characters include… The Prime Minister A Doctor teaching us how to wash our hands Corona Virus Sufferers NHS Staff

A set of 10 Drama Rules to establish calmness, clear expectations and responsibility for all pupils.

This is an extract of a larger response to the 15 mark question in the exam. The full answer reflects on playing two contrasting extracts from the play.

5 slides of a wider resource of 4 lessons - directing the pupils to consider the genre of Theatre In Education and offering ideas and directions they might go in.

This is a set of slides giving a flavour of the content. In total there are 43 slides and at least 5 lessons of material. Each lesson pupils will be given a focus to base their work on. These incude spass, using props, montage etc - all Brechtian techniques.

An essay response to the exam question. It is set out clearly and explains how as an actor I would approach two contrasting extracts. It was written by myself, not a pupil and I would hope a response like this would generate 15 marks! I hope your pupils find it helpful for their revision. This extract just covers motivation and voice for one extract. The essay itself is much longer than this.

This is a DIRT(Dedicated.Independent. Reflection. Time) file used successfully in KS3 and KS4 Drama lessons. Guided sentences and a range of key drama terminology enables pupils to naturally evaluate and write in an analytical way. Differentiated and helpful in allowing pupils of Drama to reflect on their own input into a lesson, performance and key learning.