In years 7, 8 and 9 all students receive two drama lessons a fortnight.

• Students explore a variety of issues and ideas through a range of stimuli.
• Students work in different groups and gain experience in performing their work to their peers and evaluating their own and each others drama.

YEAR 7 Students are introduced to drama through variety of games and group exercises. They go on to explore a variety of improvised and scripted drama. Schemes of work currently being taught include:

The Toyshop: Mime, movement, narration, characterisation, still images, performance and evaluation
Melodrama: Movement, theatre history, links with current day soap operas and stock characters.
Darkwood Manor: Teacher in role, hot seating, duologues and devising.
The Tempest: Improvisation, still images, script work and soundscapes.

YEAR 8 Students continue to build on the drama conventions and techniques they learnt in year 7 and work on schemes such as:

Missing: Hot seating, devising, still images, thought tracking, naturalism, performing and evaluating.
Physical Theatre: Movement, mime, characterisation, personification, duologues.
Alternative Fairy Tales: Stereotypes, physical theatre, devising, scripting, target audience.
Status: A variety of improvised and scripted tasks to explore how to show status in drama.

YEAR 9 Schemes of work currently being taught include:

The Identification: Students work on various drama techniques using this poem as a stimulus. Still images, thought tracking, conscience tunnel, monologues and
cross cutting.
Subtext/ Alter Ego: Through both improvised and scripted tasks students explore how to show the true, hidden thoughts of a character. Duologue script: Students work on creating a performance of a duologue. For the past few years extracts of 'Blood Brothers' have been used.