An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Missing Dan Nolan by Mark Wheeler with a complete and ready to go fourteen lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets. If you purchase this scheme of work, you get access to (enter number) lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the fourteen core outcomes which are designed for this module. In this fourteen lesson SOW students will learn about: Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to read section one of the play Missing Dan Nolan and identify specific stylistic features in this scene. Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to use techniques such as role play, mime, slow motion and freeze frames to explore section two and three from Missing Dan Nolan to further our understanding of this play text. Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to develop a deeper understanding of the character of Greg in section four and five of Missing Dan Nolan through using techniques such as inner monologues that educate the audience about Dan’s disappearance. Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to select key moments from the plot of Missing Dan Nolan from section five and six to understand the disappearance of Dan Nolan. Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to understand the context and themes contained within the play Missing Dan Nolan and begin to discuss initial group ideas for their assessment next week. Lesson six: In this lesson students demonstrate their chosen extract from Missing Dan Nolan for their midterm assessment that examines their creating, performing and evaluating skills. Lesson seven: In this lesson students learn to develop a clear understanding of Frantic Assemblies work through a technique called chair duets that will allow the audience to understand the relationship between two characters from the play Missing Dan Nolan. Lesson eight: In this lesson students learn to begin the process of selecting and casting their chosen extract from Missing Dan Nolan ready for their end of unit assessment with a particular focus on the different areas of the stage and how to avoid upstaging, crossing and clearing upon their stage space. Lesson nine: In this lesson students learn to maintain or sustain their chosen character for their chosen extract from Missing Dan Nolan through using the four pillars of drama, creating a roll on the wall and hot seating. Lesson ten: In this lesson students learn to develop a directorial intention, understand their set design and rehearse their extract from Missing Dan Nolan in preparation for their final performance.

An excellent KS3 resource for drama on the Vikings 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 understand the history and origins of the Vikings in Britain and use theatrical skills such as tableau’s, physical theatre and role play to explore Viking characters Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to understand the Norse Myth of ‘Thor in Utgard’; through the use of freeze frames, physical theatre and flashbacks. Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to understand the Norse Myth of ‘Viking creation’ through the use of freeze frames, soundscapes and role play. Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to create and understand a Viking feast through freeze frames, spontaneous improvisation and role play. Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to create a dramatic performance based on a Viking battle and a dead soldier’s arrival at Valhalla through freeze frames, Richard Wagner’s ‘Ride of the Valkyries’ and role play. Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to create a documentary piece of drama, based on a discovery at an archaeological dig site near York, through the use of freeze frames, hot seating and flashbacks.

An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Johnny and the dead by Terry Pratchett 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 understand the relationship that is created between the actors and the audience at the start of the play Johnny and the Dead. Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to create a character from Johnny and the Dead using our physical and vocal skills to create effective characterisation for the audience. Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to create and understand the characters in scene three from Johnny and the Dead using our physical and vocal skills to create effective characterisation for the audience. Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to create an emotive piece of drama using thought tracking, slow motion, mime and music to demonstrate the pals battalions in the First World War. Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to use freeze frames, hot seating and role play to discover more information about Tommy Atkins and his experiences during the First World War. Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to create a performance to demonstrate what it was like to be a new recruit in the First World War to educate the audience about this time period. Lesson seven: In this lesson students learn to create a back story for the character of Mr Grimm using the dramatic techniques mime and narration. Lesson eight: In this lesson students learn to use persuasive drama techniques to advertise a brand new technology to the dead characters in Johnny and the Dead. Lesson nine: In this lesson students learn to examine the arguments for saving the cemetery from the perspective of the town council and from ‘United Amalgamated Consolidated Holdings’ using freeze frames, effective characterisation and hot seating. Lesson ten: In this lesson students learn to explore the end of the play using dramatic techniques such as freeze frames, effective characterisation and hot seating. Lesson eleven: In this lesson students learn to prepare an extract for a performance from Johnny and the Dead while using effective characterisation to communicate a character to the audience. Lesson twelve: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on a court room drama to bring charges against the company ‘United Amalgamated Consolidated Holdings’ for their damage and illegal involvements in the cemetery.

An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Our day out by Willy Russell 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 demonstrate the differences between the two teaching characters of Mr Briggs and Mrs Kay in the play ‘Our Day Out’. Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to create and develop the sweet shop and the zoo scene in the play ‘Our Day Out’ to enable the action to be clear to an audience. Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to create and explore the events at Conway castle and down at the beach in ‘Our Day Out’ to enable the action to be clear to an audience. Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to demonstrate and explore the home and school life of the character of Carol from the play ‘Our Day Out’. Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to devise and rehearse their own play based on a school trip inspired by the play ‘Our Day Out’. Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on the play text ‘Our Day Out’ that examines their creating, performing and evaluating skills.

An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Gothic fairy tales via Mr Fox 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 about the genre of English fairy tales by reading the story of Mr Fox creating tableaus, linking key props to characters, developing tapestries and role plays to summarise the play of Mr Fox. Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to develop their knowledge and understanding of Mr Fox by using tableau’s, hot seating and role play to investigate why he wants to commit such horrendous crimes around kidnapping and dismembering young women in his local community. Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to explore the horror that lies within the bloody chamber within Mr Fox’s mansion through tableau’s, role play and hot seating. Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to create a contemporary version of the serious messages contained with the English fairy tale of Mr Fox and the danger signs to be aware of when meeting new people and strangers for the first time. Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to breakdown the English fairy tale of Mr Fox into six scenes that they believe are the most important for the audience in preparation for their practical assessment next week. Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to rehearse, polish and assess their version of Mr Fox through our six scenes for their end of unit assessment on creating, performing and communicating skills.

An excellent KS3 resource for drama on Superheroes 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 identify the key elements of the superhero genre and create our own superhero ready to be introduce to the world. Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to create and develop our superheroes through freeze frames and role play that show them in scenarios of victory and defeat. Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to create an alter-ego for our superhero and use thought tracking to reveal our characters feelings during a performance. Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to create an arch-nemesis through a roll on the wall, split staging and marking the moment to reveal the origins of this character. Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to create and develop our superhero sidekick through freeze frames and role play to reveal our characters feelings. Lesson six: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on a superhero mission.

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.

A set of three cover worksheets on creating a character suitable for KS3 and KS4.

An excellent KS4 resource for GCSE drama AQA 8261 specification on texts in practice 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 understand the characters and themes within ‘Blue Remembered Hills’ by Dennis Potter. Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to play children effectively by adapting our vocal and physical skills to replicate seven year olds. Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to perform a range of characters from Blue Remembered Hills within their performances. Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to bring to life a character from Blue Remembered Hill’s using effective vocal and physical skills in our performance. Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to use connotation, denotation and hot seating to effectively understand the character of Donald Duck from Blue Remembered Hills. Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to play a range of different characters effectively using our vocal and physical skills through freeze frames and role play. Lesson seven: In this lesson students learn to explore and rehearse scenes eight, ten, eleven and thirteen in today’s lesson to build our understanding and knowledge of the characters from Blue Remembered Hills. Lesson eight: In this lesson students learn to explore and rehearse scenes fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and eighteen in today’s lesson to build our understanding and knowledge of the characters from Blue Remembered Hills. Lesson nine: In this lesson students learn to explore and rehearse scenes twenty one, twenty two, twenty three and twenty four in today’s lesson to build our understanding and knowledge of the characters from Blue Remembered Hills. Lesson ten: In this lesson students learn to explore and rehearse scenes twenty five, twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight and twenty nine in today’s lesson to build our understanding and knowledge of the characters from Blue Remembered Hills. Lesson eleven: In this lesson students learn to rehearse our two chosen extracts from Blue Remembered Hills to simulate a mock performance of the module for text’s in practice next year. Lesson twelve: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on their use of vocal and physical skills, together with any appropriate theatrical skills, to bring the two chosen extracts from Blue Remembered Hills to life effectively on the stage for an assessment.

An excellent KS4 revision resource for GCSE drama AQA 8261 specification on section A, B and C with a complete and ready to go three lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets. If you purchase this scheme of work you get access to three lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the three core outcomes which are designed for this module. In this three lesson SOW students will learn about: Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to consolidate information and revise for the written paper for section A. Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to consolidate information and revise for the written paper for section B. Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to consolidate information and revise for the written paper for section C. Please feel free to adapt as section B for me was Blood Brothers and section C was the Woman in Black.

An excellent KS4 resource for GCSE drama AQA 8261 specification on texts in practice 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 introduce and understand the play Hard to Swallow by looking at the different issues that affect young people today with a particular focus on eating disorders. Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to develop and explore a piece of drama that is based on eating disorders through freeze frames, thought tracking and role play. Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to understand eating disorders and how they affect people using Mark Wheeler’s Hard to swallow as an exemplar. Lesson four: In this lesson students learn to understand the characters of Maureen and John Dunbar and how their relationship has affected Catherine. Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to understand Catherine’s relationship with her parents through the use of a flashback and physical theatre. Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to explore the naturalism in scenes five and six from Hard to Swallow. Lesson seven: In this lesson students learn to explore the naturalism and stylisation in scenes seven, nine and ten from Hard to swallow. Lesson eight: In this lesson students learn to understand Catherine’s relationship with her immediate family through the use of physical theatre and through section twelve. Lesson nine: In this lesson students learn to develop and explore the epilogue of Hard to swallow and take an issue from Mark Wheeler’s play and devise a performance based from it. Lesson ten: In this lesson students learn to select and rehearse an extract for a mock assessment from Hard to swallow. Lesson eleven: In this lesson students complete a summative assessment on their selected extracts for their final performance of Hard to swallow. Lesson twelve: In this lesson students to complete a research project into the impact of eating disorders.

This thirty page homework guide can be printed and handout out to your students as a guide for how to answer section A, B and C of the written paper. The guide has Blood Brothers as the set text for section B and the Woman in Black for the live theatre review for section C; but feel free to adapt and change as necessary to suit your chosen texts.

This thirty four page revision guide can be printed and handout out to your students as a guide for how to answer section A, B and C of the written paper. The guide has Blood Brothers as the set text for section B and the Woman in Black for the live theatre review for section C; but feel free to adapt and change as necessary to suit your chosen texts.

This twenty page coursework guide can be printed and handed out to your students as a guide for how to structure section one, two and three for their devising drama coursework.

Five word documents that detail progress routes for years seven, eight, nine, ten and eleven from grades 1 to 9 in each year group and what we as teachers should be looking for certain levels in drama.

An excellent KS4 resource for GCSE drama AQA 8261 specification on Blood Brothers 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 twevle lesson SOW students will learn about: Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to read and understand act one of Blood Brothers and work co-operatively as a team to analyse a crime scene in preparation for act two of Blood Brothers next week. Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to read and understand act two of Blood Brothers and adapt our vocal and physical skills to play different characters from different social classes within the play. Lesson three: In this lesson students learn to create effective dramatic tension on stage and show this in a performance. Lesson four: In this lesson students learn the techniques that are needed to play a child effectively in a performance inspired by Blood Brothers. Lesson five: In this lesson students learn to identify the genre, style and structure that Blood Brothers is written within and how do we practice a four mark question from the written exam. Lesson six: In this lesson students learn to understand the social, cultural, historical and political context of the play Blood Brothers. Lesson seven: In this lesson students learn to identify key moments within Blood Brothers where context can be seen clearly for the audience. Lesson eight: In this lesson students learn to use non-verbal communication skills to create tension effectively, for a question 6.03 on the written exam, between the characters of Mickey and Linda within your performance. Lesson nine: In this lesson students learn to use vocal and physical skills to create a dramatic climax, for a question 6.03 on the written exam, during the final scene of Blood Brothers. Lesson ten: In this lesson students learn to use their vocal and physical skills, together with any appropriate theatrical skills, to bring their two chosen extracts from Blood Brothers to life effectively on the stage. Lesson eleven: In this lesson students learn to understand the requirements of a Section B question on the set text of Blood Brothers for the written paper. Lesson twelve: In this lesson students learn to create a revision powerpoint on the play Blood Brothers, by Willy Russell, for our Section B written paper examination.

A useful worksheet to plan your technical requirements for any production.

An excellent KS4 resource for GCSE drama AQA 8261 specification on theatre roles and staging configurations with a complete and ready to go two lesson SOW which includes all additional worksheets. If you purchase this scheme of work you get access to two lesson powerpoints with around 80 to 100 slides over the complete SOW that help students to access and succeed at the two core outcomes which are designed for this module. In this two lesson SOW students will learn about: Lesson one: In this lesson students learn to revise for section A of the written paper ready for our written paper. Lesson two: In this lesson students learn to answer and understand the requirements of a section A question from the written paper.

A collection of writing frames for GCSE drama AQA 8261 for section B and C for the written paper. Please feel free to adapt as necessary to your chosen texts as section B for me was Blood Brothers and section C was the Woman in Black.

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.