In this script-based scheme of work students are introduced to the conventions of a script through a familiar story; how to read out loud with expression; and an introduction to skills such as...
KS 3
This scheme aims to create work with A level learners that is truthful and believable, by exploring and applying naturalistic approaches to Jim Cartwright’s Two and Sera Moore Williams’ Burning...
KS 5
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht is one of five set text choices for assessment up to and including 2023. This means that the current Year 11 will be the last cohort to sit a ‘Chalk...
KS 4
Aimed at KS2 students who read the book as a whole class, the scheme uses a wide variety of games and drama techniques as well as introducing students to subject-specific drama terminology. This...
KS 2
This scheme of six sessions lasting two hours (which may be shortened or divided into two) sets up a background of homes, shops, businesses during a given time period. It may be as uniform or as...
KS 3
The aim of this scheme is to enable Year 9 students successfully to develop the necessary analysis and evaluation skills to tackle live productions effectively.
KS 3
This scheme of work has been written to accompany a classroom reading of this first book in the Unfortunate Events series, and aims to deepen students’ understanding of the book as well as enlivening...
KS 2
The Heist is a scheme of work specifically aimed at Year 8, but is adaptable for Year 9 and
the early stages on GCSE Drama in order to help students develop devised work.
This scheme of six 90-minute sessions suggests ideas for story and the people to tell them without resorting to stereotypes. It proposes a range of drama skills that can be taught/employed and works...
KS 3
During this scheme of work students will have the opportunity to explore many of them, working with a range of performance strategies and stimuli required for KS4 qualifications, ultimately combining...
KS 4
This scheme of work is designed as a series of workshops to introduce both a practical exploration of Girls Like That by Evan Placey for a scripted performance and to prepare students to write on this...
KS 5
Building fantasy worlds lends itself to drama lessons on many levels - building imagination, giving life to inanimate objects, creating exaggerated characters with bizarre personalities, etc. As well...
KS 2
This scheme of work is based on three of the more well-known Greek myths: Pandora’s Box; Perseus and Medusa; Jason and the Golden Fleece This scheme is most suitable for Year 7 and
Year 8, although...
Theatre design is a tricky art form. It has a very short life, at best for the length of the run. But mostly it only gets attention until the actors come to do their work; if it doesn’t fade into the...
KS 3
Within this scheme of work students learn about the true story of Lizzie Borden, read and perform the play A Memory of Lizzie by David Foxton, learn the drama techniques of characterisation, Freytag’s...
KS 4
While there are many changing/evolving definitions of Game Theory, it is essentially a complicated mathematical idea which explains how a strategic game is played. It studies how people’s choices...
KS 5
