Courses
We offer a broad and balanced curriculum, for key stage 3 (Years 7-9), key stage 4 (Years 10 and 11) and key stage 5 (Years 12 and 13 - Sixth Form). Click the appropriate button below to find the details for each subject offered in each key stage.
Further details of our curriculum are available on the curriculum page.
Overview
Drama
Introduction
The Performing Arts Department aims to ignite a lifelong passion for the arts with clear understanding of its significance in the 21st century. We want students to explore freely, their creative reactions to go above and beyond. In drama we nurture the power of positive influence on others to shape a better working environment and gain strength for the challenges that lay ahead in life. Our goal is to promote self-confidence whilst learning about the performing arts industry and potential roles that could excite their futures. Our extracurricular programmes offer all students the opportunity to further refine their skills in a safe fun space and meet new people beyond their class.
Course leader
Mrs J Moore
Curriculum
Course content
Primarily working on compassion and understanding of self and others, students will study many aspects of the theatre. The many roles within from acting/directing to design elements of sound, costume, lighting and set. The content will challenge students mentally and stretch them creatively through the vast styles and devices covered through key stage 3. Their analytical skills will become more refined verbally as they problem solve and evaluate the impact of their decisions during the process and as an end product.
Topics
- Pantomime/melodrama
- Naturalism
- Comedy
- Sensory theatre
- Non-naturalism
- Documentary drama
- Mask theatre
- Frantic assembly
- Commedia de'll arte
- Epic theatre
These are some of the many styles and genres in which our students excel. Key topics range from mining, everyday life, conflict, scary tales, with contexts of 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and present day, anti-social behaviour, and generational immigration issues.
Skills and requirements
Skills developed
Transferable skills developed in drama are:
- Communication
- Confidence
- Team work and leadership
- Listening and responding
- Creativity
- Critical thinking and problem-solving
- Time management
- Research.
Subject specific skills are: performance skills of verbal and non-verbal communication as an actor or director, the skills of design in all elements to understand and apply to the process.
