Drama Teacher with over 10 years experience. A range of accessible and detailed resources to make Drama and Theatre teaching fun, inspiring and awesome. Any questions please ask!
Drama Teacher with over 10 years experience. A range of accessible and detailed resources to make Drama and Theatre teaching fun, inspiring and awesome. Any questions please ask!
A note from the author:
Some of the resources from Arts Award directly are not very easy to use nor are they easy to communicate to or made accessible for young people. Therefore, I crafted this letter template to support my communication of the Bronze Arts Award. I have been assessing the Arts Award for over 10 years now - Bronze, Silver & Gold.
Overview of Resource:
A template letter to send to parents / guardians with details of the Bronze Arts Award and example money costs (which should be adjusted for each centre).
Included:
Bronze Arts Award letter template
Please note:
You must ensure that a member of your team is trained to assess your Arts Award candidates. Alternatively you can contact a local centre who can assess your candidates. Visit the Arts Award website for further details.
Please do comment on my resources so that I can continue to update and expand them. If you need any more information/clarification please comment and I will update my resources ASAP!
A note from the author:
Some of the resources from Arts Award directly are not very easy to use nor are they easy to communicate to or made accessible for young people. Therefore, I crafted this handout as an extremely invaluable tool to support my Silver Arts Award candidates in their ideas for and organisation of evidence in their portfolio. I have been assessing the Arts Award for over 10 years now - Bronze, Silver & Gold.
Overview of Resource:
User-friendly handout introduction booklet as a great way to start to stimulate ideas from candidates required to pass the Silver Arts Award.
Included:
Introduction Booklet Handout, Silver Arts Award
Please note:
You must ensure that a member of your team is trained to assess your Arts Award candidates. Alternatively you can contact a local centre who can assess your candidates. Visit the Arts Award website for further details.
Please do comment on my resources so that I can continue to update and expand them. If you need any more information/clarification please comment and I will update my resources ASAP!
A note from the author:
Some of the resources from Arts Award directly are not very easy to use nor are they easy to communicate to or made accessible for young people. Therefore, I crafted this letter template to support my communication of the Silver Arts Award. I have been assessing the Arts Award for over 4 years now - Bronze, Silver & Gold.
Overview of Resource:
A template letter to send to parents / guardians with details of the Silver Arts Award and example money costs (which should be adjusted for each centre).
Included:
Silver Arts Award letter template
Please note:
You must ensure that a member of your team is trained to assess your Arts Award candidates. Alternatively you can contact a local centre who can assess your candidates. Visit the Arts Award website for further details.
Please do comment on my resources so that I can continue to update and expand them. If you need any more information/clarification please comment and I will update my resources ASAP!
A note from the author:
Some of the resources from Arts Award directly are not very easy to use nor are they easy to communicate to or made accessible for young people. Therefore, I crafted these handouts as an extremely invaluable tool to support my Silver Arts Award candidates in their ideas for and organisation of evidence in their portfolio. I have been assessing the Arts Award for over 10 years now - Bronze, Silver & Gold.
Overview of Resource:
User-friendly handouts are a great start to stimulate ideas from candidates required to pass the Silver Arts Award.
Included:
Unit Booklet Handouts for initial ideas for the two units in the Silver Arts Award (excludes Unit 1: Part C)
Please note:
You must ensure that a member of your team is trained to assess your Arts Award candidates. Alternatively you can contact a local centre who can assess your candidates. Visit the Arts Award website for further details.
Please do comment on my resources so that I can continue to update and expand them. If you need any more information/clarification please comment and I will update my resources ASAP!
A note from the author:
Some of the resources from Arts Award directly are not very easy to use nor are they easy to communicate to or made accessible for young people. Therefore, I have created this adaptable resource to help you plan when you will deliver your Arts Award throughout the academic year. I have been assessing the Arts Award for over 4 years now - Bronze, Silver & Gold.
Overview of Resource:
In my school Year 10 take Bronze, Year 11 take SIlver and Years 12/13 take Gold.
Year 10 complete Bronze in the Autumn and Spring terms, then start Silver in the Summer term and finish it in Year 11 in the Autumn and Spring terms prior to GCSE exams. Year 12/13 have a choice to complete it over three terms or over 5 terms.
This mapping template is fully adaptable to your circumstances, term dates and pressures, so feel free to adapt however you see fit to!
Included:
Academic Year Mapping for Arts Award (Bronze, Silver & Gold)
Please note:
You must ensure that a member of your team is trained to assess your Arts Award candidates. Alternatively you can contact a local centre who can assess your candidates. Visit the Arts Award website for further details.
Please do comment on my resources so that I can continue to update and expand them. If you need any more information/clarification please comment and I will update my resources ASAP!
A note from the author:
Some of the resources from Arts Award directly are not very easy to use nor are they easy to communicate to or made accessible for young people. Therefore, I crafted these resources as an extremely invaluable tool to support my Bronze Arts Award candidates in their ideas for and organisation of evidence in their portfolio. I have been assessing the Arts Award for over 10 years now - Bronze, Silver & Gold.
Overview of Resources:
These resources will really help support your delivery of the Bronze Arts Award. Tried and tested over 5 years of delivering Bronze to young people!
Included:
Bronze Mapping
Bronze Application Form
Bronze Introduction Booklet
Bronze Letter Template
Bronze Unit Breakdowns & Evidence Checklist Booklets
Bronze Part C Breakdown & Checklist
Please note:
You must ensure that a member of your team is trained to assess your Arts Award candidates. Alternatively you can contact a local centre who can assess your candidates. Visit the Arts Award website for further details.
Please do comment on my resources so that I can continue to update and expand them. If you need any more information/clarification please comment and I will update my resources ASAP!
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A Form Template for the HOD or Director of Drama/Expressive Arts to use with any directors of co-curricular shows or exam texts. This useful form safeguards the department against any issues relating to negative feedback from audience or staff relating to the content of shows selected for performance of pupils of any age.
Category:
Director of Drama Toolkit (also available as part of this bundle)
School Production Toolkit (also available as part of this bundle)
Included:
Production Proposal Form 2019/20
Please note:
Purchasing this template allows you to amend and reproduce the form in anyway that you wish.
Please do comment on my resources so that I can continue to update and expand them. If you need any more information/clarification please comment and I will update my resources ASAP!
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An Introduction Booklet that I use in the first lesson with my GCSE pupils to set goals, expectations and ground rules for ensemble making.
Category:
Physical Theatre Toolkit (also available as part of this bundle)
Frantic Assembly Practitioner Toolkit (also available as part of this bundle)
Drama GCSE Complete (also available as part of this bundle)
GCSE Drama Component One: Devising Theatre (also available as part of this bundle)
Please note:
Purchasing this resource allows you to amend it in any way you would like.
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In this bundle you get ten stimuli packs (each pack contains a minimum of 20 A4 pages - so 200+ pages in total!) to use when creating devised theatre with your pupils.
Included:
Betrayal
Democracy
Feminism
Hate
Kindness
Loneliness & Solitude
Morality
Sanity
Wisdom
12 Signs of the Zodiac
For more details please see the descriptions on each resource item.
You save 50% by purchasing this bundle as opposed to buying separately!
A note from the author:
I created these posters to add a contemporary feel to my studios and classrooms. They give a real boost to creativity and imagination for my students, especially when they are creatively blocked or stuck. These work well in A4 or A3 as posters / visual displays, or I have also used them as handouts for group devising as A4 and A5 sizes, individually laminated or combined to make a booklet.
Included:
1x Powerful Photographs - Devising Stimuli Poster
Please note:
This resource is also part of a bundle / collection of all devising posters.
Please do comment on my resources so that I can continue to update and expand them. If you need any more information/clarification please comment and I will update my resources ASAP!
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The full collection of my resources when teaching Component One of GCSE Drama - Devising
Overview of Resources:
These resources will really help you deliver amazing lessons for students and pupils in your GCSE C1 lessons. There are displays, lesson resources, stimulus packs, model answers, guidebooks and more!
Included:
Component One GCSE Devising - Component One - Performance Examples - Scripts & PowerPoints
Component One GCSE Devising - Component One - Portfolio of Supporting Evidence / Creative Log
Component One GCSE Devising - Component One - Evaluation
Component One GCSE Devising - Component One - General Devising Resources
1 x Physical Theatre SOW
1 x Love & Hate Devising SOW
5 x Devising Stimuli Posters (Illustrations, Lyrics, Photographs, Quotes, Questions)
5 x Devising Stimuli Packs (Anxiety, Democracy, Feminism, Hate, Perfection)
Frantic Assembly Resources
Please note:
This is a selection of resources that I use for Component One. This is not a complete SOW, although it does include a devising SOW and a physical Theatre SOW which I embed into my teaching.
You save 63% with this bundle!
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A note from the author:
I love physical theatre and have compiled this SOW to be adaptable and useful for all Drama teachers as an accessible way into physical theatre. I have noted down different techniques from a range of companies/practitioners. Your students will surely love playing around with these lessons.
SOW Overview:
A detailed 18 page, nine lesson (70 minute lesson) SOW for students to experiment and play around creatively with Physical Theatre components.
Lesson One: Introduction to Physical Theatre
Lesson Two: Complicite - Collaborative Ensemble Physicality (Information, Games & Activities)
Lessons Three & Four: Frantic Assembly - Choreography for Non Dancers & Devising Theatre (Information, Exercises and Activities) - Could be split into two lessons.
Lesson Five: Merce Cunningham - Chance Choreography (Information and Activities)
Lesson Six: Peter Darling (Information and Activities)
Lesson Seven: Anne Bogart - Viewpoints (Information and Activities)
Lessons Eight & Nine: Assessment Lessons - Could be split over a number of extra lessons to tie together everything they have learnt from the SOW.
Recently Updated: (Dec 2016)
Extra information on Anne Bogart
Frantic Assembly split over two lessons
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A note from the author:
In this resources pack are images and information to aid students with devising a Brechtian piece of drama in conjunction with my Brecht SOW. I use this SOW and these resources with my Year 9 classes, but would work equally well with KS4 and KS5 classes and high ability Year 7/8 classes.
Included:
Extracts from The Diary of Anne Frank
Nazi Germany Facts
A selection of Images
Brechtian Techniques Sheet
Assessment Task Sheet
Please note:
Whilst I have included extracts from the diary, it is advisable that a copy of the diary is purchased to give students more freedom over the chosen extracts.
Please do comment on my resources so that I can continue to update and expand them. If you need any more information/clarification please comment and I will update my resources ASAP!