Teachers of Drama
- Miss E Clarke
- Mrs M Harper
- Mrs K S Phillips (Curriculum Leader)
Our Vision for Drama
Students at SJB study Drama to provide them with the ultimate opportunity to be creative. Through collaborative group work, students are encouraged out of their comfort zone and through creating and performing they are empowered to assert themselves, empathise, build confidence and gain life-long social skills.
Key Stage 3
Year 7
Year 7 is a skills based year where students are introduced to the basic performance skills required in the subject. These skills will be formally assessed through practical assessments that take place every half-term. Students explore scripts; including ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ and ‘Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations’ and develop devising skills through topics like ‘Space Quest’. Our Shakespeare unit explores the play ‘The Tempest’ and students have so much fun getting used to Shakespearean language through insults, re-enacting shipwrecks and playing monsters!
Year 7 Drama Assessment Framework
Year 8
Year 8 Drama gives the students the opportunity to further develop the skills they were introduced to in Year 7 while introducing new units including Titanic, Monologues and Duologues, Silent Movies and the ghostly devising unit, Darkwood Manor! We also learn Stage Fighting skills through our Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet. As with year 7, students will take a range of practical assessments every half-term.
Year 8 Drama Assessment Framework
Year 9
Year 9 aims to build on the skills learned in Year 7 and 8 and prepare students for the Drama GCSE. Through the Page to Stage unit, students have the opportunity to prepare an extract from a diverse range of scripts. Students develop their drama skills and experience through engaging units including; Cluedo, WW1 and Macbeth. We also introduce some key Drama practitioners for example; Brecht and Stanislavski. Assessments continue every half term.
Year 9 Drama Assessment Framework
