KS3 Acting Skills in Drama Work Booklet

Here is a KS3 Scheme of Work/ Programme of Study for introducing Acting Skills to a Year 7 cohort. The programme is designed to last 6 to 8 weeks and is filled with fun and engaging tasks to help students begin their journey into Physical and Vocal Acting Skills.

This 23-page workbook accompanies the PowerPoint – KS3 Drama SOW Acting Skills. It was implemented to show evidence of teaching and learning. It is packed with tasks to accommodate all levels of learning and interaction including extra tasks in the back for lessons such as cover and behaviour exclusions. This project is taught in Year 7 but is suitable for KS2 as well.
Examples of tasks are:

1. 6 C’s in Drama – setting expectations.
2. Knowledge Organiser
3. What are physical and vocal acting skills? 16 new terms.
4. What does creating, performing and responding mean in Drama?
5. Hot seating, mime and given circumstances.
6. Developing a character using Role on the Wall.
7. Annotating a script and bringing it to life (a scene from Body in the Bedroom)
8. Creating and performing a final performance called ‘The Event’
9. Peer assessments
10. Evaluating personal progress and setting targets.

These materials were created by a non-specialist educator with dyslexia, who was tasked with teaching a few hours a week from a complex scheme of work in a department with limited or no resources. Over the past 6 years, PowerPoint teaching resources have been developed to support non-specialists and new teachers, and more recently, work booklets have been introduced to support theory-based learning and evidence of teaching.