Drama
Drama Curriculum 3 I’s
Vision and Intent
Students will learn to develop an appreciation for existing repertoire and understand how to analyse, rehearse and perform both scripted work and devise their own work following learnt principles and structures and demonstrating a variety of dramatic forms. Students’ drama education will allow them to explore cultures, concepts, characters and issues beyond their own world thus providing an enriched education that develops the whole student.
The Maltings Drama curriculum will enable learners to:
Explore their own and others creativity - understanding creativity, studying style and conventions of professional creative work over time, exploring practically and analysing impact as well as developing individual creative style.
Build collective responsibility for the production of tangible art work, taking on various roles within a performance and understanding the importance of collaboration when creating successful performance work.
Develop empathy through role play and the study of characters, experience events and conversations outside of their normal world through the safety of improvisation; thus fostering an acute understanding of others and the world- past, present and future.
Participate in regular performance platforms building confidence and resilience. Accepting the fluidity of live work and feeling the adrenaline that encourages problem solving, confidence, resilience and appreciation of Art.
Subject Implementation
Students have the opportunity to participate in live theatre visits, attend weekly clubs and engage with varied performance opportunities in school and off site.
The drama curriculum follows three learning ‘flows’ that feed into the GCSE assessment objectives and three components for Edexcel Drama GCSE. Flow 1 focuses on the skills and knowledge that surround ‘devising’. Flow 2 is centered on ‘performance from text’ and flow 3 allows us to study ‘theatre makers in practice’.
The implementation of the Drama curriculum includes:
Opportunity to explore characters, real and imagined, through role play.
Clear links to literacy through oracy tasks, speaking and listening, exploring plays and the study of language.
Connections with the wider school curriculums allowing students to explore relationships, personal dilemmas, democracy, politics, history and societal change.
Knowledge, understanding and good practice is embedded through retrieval quizzes, creative homework tasks, improvisation games, routine performance work and regular opportunities beyond the classroom.
Regular monitoring and assessment of students ability to ‘create’, ‘perform’ and ‘respond’ in their drama work.
Subject Impact
Maltings students are exposed to live and recorded performance work, professional artists and a varied mix of subject matters through their arts education. Student's confidence, collaborative skills and resilience is tested and practised throughout the creative process. Students are exposed to the roles of technical and support staff in theatres to introduce these avenues and raise awareness of the job opportunities in the arts that go beyond performance. Students are guided through analytical writing in order to meet the KS4+ demands and to contribute to wider literacy skills.
A Maltings Academy Drama student will:
Speak confidently and eloquently.
Have an appreciation of the Arts.
Be able to problem solve under pressure.
Work effectively, creatively and productively in a group.
Be able to understand, discuss and critically analyse the semiotics of performance work including complex artistic expression.
Drama Key Stage 4