I have been working in education for the last twelve years across a variety of subjects but specialising in drama and the performing arts. I have uploaded a variety of schemes of work that will take around six hours to deliver and I hope you enjoy using them in your classroom as much as I have!
I have been working in education for the last twelve years across a variety of subjects but specialising in drama and the performing arts. I have uploaded a variety of schemes of work that will take around six hours to deliver and I hope you enjoy using them in your classroom as much as I have!
Drama tracker sheets for KS3 and KS4 that can be adapted to your curriculum.
These drama sheets are designed to be printed and kept in a class folder to record summative assessment marks at the end of a module.
If you purchase this resource you will recieve one tracker sheet for year seven, year eight and year nine and two tracker sheets for year ten and eleven one on practical work and one on written work.
This booking sheet can be adapted to your school’s timetable and can be printed to ensure the drama studio is being used effectively at break time, lunch time and after school.
Two downloadable subject reports for drama one for KS3 and one for KS4 with adjustable targets and timetables for you to re-edit to match your school’s teaching allocation for your timetable.
These drama assessment cards are used to mark formative or summative assessments at KS3 when you have large groups of students.
Just cut them and apply them to your assessment to remember the level you have given the pupils before applying a grade.
If a bronze card is issued for example I am looking to award a level 1 to 3. If a silver card is issued I am looking to award a level 4 to 6. If a gold card is issued I am looking to award a level 7 to 8. If an exceptional card is issued I am looking to award a level 9.
In this download their are three sets of assessment cards for example one set for assessment objective one making drama, one set for assessment objective two performing drama and one set for assessment objective three communicating, analysing and evaluating drama.
In these five documents you will receive a written version of each lesson that is taught practically through KS3 and KS4.
As we all know sometimes plan A does not always work for every student; but plan B provides you with the space to continue with the original plan while keeping all of your students involved according to the core outcome of that day’s lesson.
These five documents provide a written version for each of the modules listed; so I would advise purchasing the module they relate to in my store for example in year seven I start with introduction to drama skills and these documents provide me with a written version of my practical lesson if I need to use them.
In the past I have used them for students who are in the SEND department when work is asked for, when a pupil needs to be removed due to behaviour or for when a student is struggling to assess the practical work of the lesson.
They are a great back up!
A play in a day lesson plan that allows KS3 students to create an abridged version on A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare as a part of activities or enrichment week.
Plus a play in a day lesson plan for KS4 on Hard to swallow or Too much punch for Judy by Mark Wheeller.
Also included is promotion posters for students to sign up to one of these two activities in your department.
An excellent KS4 resource for AQA drama 8261 specification on Too much punch for Judy by Mark Wheeller with a complete and ready to go nine lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to nine lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the nine core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this nine lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to develop, rehearse and peer assess our first extract ready for performance.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to develop, rehearse and peer assess our second extract ready for performance.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to identify and understand the necessary theatrical skills needed to stage extract one ready for our final performance.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to identify and understand the necessary theatrical skills needed to stage extract two ready for our final performance.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to rehearse our first extract without our scripts ready for our final performance.
Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to rehearse our second extract without our scripts ready for our final performance.
Lesson seven: In this lesson students learn to identify which extract requires more rehearsal time in today’s lesson ready for your final performance.
Lesson eight: In this lesson students learn to complete our final checks for extract one and two ready for our final performance and create our technical requirements for both of our extracts.
Lesson nine: In this lesson students learn to complete their GCSE rehearsal day for the module texts in practice ready for their performance exam this week.
An excellent KS4 resource for AQA drama 8261 specification on the devising log with a complete and ready to go five lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to five lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the five core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this five lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to develop and improve section one for the final time before the submission deadline.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to develop and improve section two for the final time before the submission deadline.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to develop and improve section three for the final time before the submission deadline.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to develop and improve section one, two and three for the final time before the submission deadline at the end of today’s lesson.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to ensure that all the necessary paperwork has been completed for the AQA examination board for the devising process.
A peer and teacher feedback sheet which can be used before a rehearsal session to work on previous feedback from another lesson, during the lesson for the teachers to write in the moment feedback notes and after a performance to improve the practical work overall.
The best twenty resources from the store all in one bundle!
That’s twelve years of drama planning and teaching!
These twenty items brought individually would cost £64.
But if you commit to this bundle you will recieve twenty individual schemes of work for £49.99.
That’s a saving of 22%!
Plus you will be able to revolutionalise your drama curriculum with so many options to choose from.
It was hard to choose the top twenty in this bundle; but for your purchase you will receive alongside many more schemes of work slapstick and silent movies, introduction to drama skills and technical theatre.
I hope you enjoy!
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Gizmo by Alan Ayckbourn with a complete and ready to go twelve lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to twelve lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the twelve core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this twelve lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to read and understand the opening of an Alan Ayckbourn play and how do we make it more dramatic and interesting for the audience.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to use different dramatic styles such as mime, mirroring and a diamond four to recreate the events in scene two.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to examine Marcel Marceau’s ideas on mime and understand how they link to mirroring to inform our work on Gizmo.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to understand the difference between what the character says and their subtext and how do we perform this through non-verbal communication.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to perform the skills of mime, mirroring, subtext and non-verbal communication in scene three for our final assessment.
Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to use a flashback, narrative and hot seating to explore how the characters are feeling during key moments of dramatic tension in Gizmo.
Lesson seven: In this lesson students learn to create and understand dramatic characters such as antagonists through their dialogue, costume, vocals and physicality.
Lesson eight: In this lesson students learn to convey a complex character, such as the undercover police office Sergeant Turner, and how do we combine this with multi-rolling her undercover role as Cevril.
Lesson nine: In this lesson students learn to create a roll on the wall, set design and final extract for our adaptation of the penultimate scene in Gizmo.
Lesson ten: In this lesson students learn to create a court room drama to bring charges against Manny Rice and Lando for their damage and illegal involvements in the park.
Lesson eleven: In this lesson students learn to create and perform two short extracts from Gizmo with a directorial intention for their audience.
Lesson twelve: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment by rehearsing and performing two short extracts from Gizmo with a directorial intention for their audience.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Exploring the First and Second World war with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to explore the theme of war by using different theatrical skills such as word association, tableaus and soundscapes to create an engaging and effective performance for the audience.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to understand trench warfare from the First World War, create a roll play called ‘Over the top!’ and incorporate the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est into a mime routine to identify the key emotions of a soldier during a gas attack.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to explore the First World War through letter writing and role play to give us an insight into how it must have been to serve as a First World War solider, use split staging to represent different locations on our stage and create a mimed routine that shows the power that letters had to bring joy or despair to families waiting at home.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to develop and explore what life was like for the evacuees during the Second World War through using theatrical skills such as roll on the walls, evacuee cards and role play to educate our audience about this period in history.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to create three scenes called the life of an evacuee, the family of a Second World War solider and life on the frontline through employing theatrical skills such as split staging, mime and slow motion to give our audience an insight into the story of those affected by the Second World War.
Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on their five combined scenes that represent Exploring the First and Second World war for an end of unit assessment on creating, performing and communicating skills.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Dragon’s over Liverppol with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to use given circumstances and hot seating to develop the story of the Dragon’s over Liverpool.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to use freeze frames, thought tracking and hot seating to create and develop the story of the Dragon over Liverpool.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to develop the story of Dragon’s over Liverpool through identifying moments of dramatic significance and use mime, freeze frames or slow motion to communicate this to the audience.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to develop the story of Dragon’s over Liverpool through using physical theatre to represent the creature and role play and hot seating to recruit a dragon slayer.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to develop the story of Dragon’s over Liverpool through using physical theatre.
Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on their story of Dragon’s over Liverpool through using physical theatre, soundscapes and thought tracking.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on the troubles in Northern Ireland via the identication poem with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to develop their knowledge and understanding of the identification poem by Roger McGough and apply theatrical skills such as freeze frames, captions and role play to bring a poetry stimulus to life through educating the audience about this time period during the troubles in Northern Ireland.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to use the fourth stanza in the identification poem by Roger McGough to think about the way an individual can be viewed differently by different people and how this can affect our performance of this poem.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to discover more about Stephen’s life and the possible reasons and outcomes of the explosion through freeze frames, hot seating and narration.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to use their imaginations to create a scenario that we believe led to Stephen’s death through creating six scenes that explore the day of the explosion.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to create a series of freeze frames that examine Stephen’s life, two flashbacks that look at the impact the bombing had on the local community and a piece of theatre in education that looks at the key messages around the troubles in Northern Ireland.
Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on a piece of theatre in education that offers an alternative ending for the killing of Stephen in Omagh in Northern Ireland during the troubles for an end of unit assessment.
An excellent KS3 resource for drama on television soap operas with a complete and ready to go six lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets.
If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to six lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the six core outcomes which are designed for this module.
In this six lesson SOW students will learn about:
Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to introduce the genre of soap operas and their main stereotypical characters together with developing a piece of melodrama for performance at the end of the lesson.
Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to understand the stereotypical characters used within soap operas and how they would typical react to changing circumstances within a piece of drama.
Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to develop and improvise a highly charged scene within a soap opera using techniques such as dramatic pauses, interruptions and low volume menace.
Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to create and understand how monologues are used to develop the characters and plot in a typical soap opera environment.
Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to incorporate the poem ‘Only the day before’ as a backdrop for the development of a scene set after an incident of domestic violence in a soap opera.
Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on the poem ‘Only the day before’ which includes key soap opera elements such as heightened drama, split staging and an ending which includes a cliff hanger.
