| Co-ordinator of Dance & Drama |
Miss M. Hall – BA (Hons) Dance |
| Assistant Headteacher & Teacher of Drama |
Mrs L. Provoost – BA (Hons) Theatre Studies and English F.R.S.A |
| Assistant Headteacher & Teacher of Drama |
Mrs S. Davies – BA (Hons) Drama |
| Teacher of Drama |
Mrs H. Henrys – BA (Hons) Media and Performance |
Per Term Topic Information
Year 7
| Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
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Baseline: Developing skills and techniques in drama
Unit 1
PowerPoint
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Performance Genre- Pantomime
Unit 2
PowerPoint
Script:
Cinderella/Aladdin
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From page to stage- Set text: Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations
Unit 3
PowerPoint
Script:
Ernie
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Poetry – Recall Charge of the Light Brigade
Unit 4
PowerPoint
Poem
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Real World – Working with Texts
Unit 5
PowerPoint
Set texts/monologues & duologues
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Devising: Performing to a brief
Physical Theatre:
Unit 6
PowerPoint
Video guidance
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Notes: the main set text for year 7 will be Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations.
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Year 8
| Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
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Developing skills and techniques in drama: Gothic Horror
Unit 1
PowerPoint
Darkwood Manor
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Retrieving information from a text to plan a drama
Unit 2
PowerPoint
Text
Rikki Brown
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From page to stage- Set text: Willy Russel’s ‘Our Day Out.’
Unit 3
PowerPoint
Script:
Our Day Out
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Tragedy – Romeo and Juliet
Unit 4
PowerPoint
Shakespeare
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Memory Recall- Poetry
Unit 5
PowerPoint
War and Conflict: Poppies
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Devising: Performing to a brief
Unit 6
PowerPoint
Set Stimulus: Props, images, text
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Notes: the main set text for year 8 will be Our Day Out
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Year 9
| Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
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Developing skills and techniques in drama: War
Unit 1
PowerPoint
WW1
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Character development
Unit 2
PowerPoint
Stanislavski’s Given Circumstance
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From page to stage- Blood Brothers
Unit 3
PowerPoint
Extracts: Blood Brothers
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Hit and Run Horror
Unit 4
PowerPoint
Short story
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Real World – Documentary Theatre: The Hillsborough Disaster
Unit 5
PowerPoint
Media
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Devising: Performing to a brief
Unit 6
PowerPoint
Set Stimulus: Time Changes Everything
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Notes: the main set text for year 9 will be Blood Brothers
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Year 10
| Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1/2 |
| Introduction to Acting
Easter Island performance |
Acting skills and techniques workshops |
Unit 2
Plan, Prepare, Perform |
Unit 2
Scripted performance |
Unit 3
Acting Skills
Learning Aim A |
| Deadline: 21.10.17 |
|
Deadline:30.3.17 |
Deadline:30.3.17 |
Deadline: 21.7.17 |
Year 11
| Autumn 1 |
Autumn 2 |
Spring 1 |
Spring 2 |
Summer 1 |
Summer 2 |
| Unit 3:
Acting Skills
Learning Aim B – Performance 1 |
Unit 1:
Monologue 1 |
Unit 1:
Monologue 2 |
Acting workshops |
Unit 3:
Acting Skills
Learning Aim B – Performance 2 |
Course completion |
| Deadline: 20.10.16 |
Deadline: 22.12.16 |
Deadline: 17.2.17 |
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Deadline: 26.5.17 |
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Curriculum Information
Year 7
| No. of lessons per fortnight |
Frequency and length of homework |
Additional learning opportunities e.g. clubs, speakers, visits, residential … |
Department support e.g. intervention classes, revision classes … |
Additional guidance for parents e.g. exam board info, websites to support revision, books to read, useful places to visit … |
| 2 |
Key Stage 3 students will receive one piece of written homework each half-term:
- Weekly spelling tests.
- Writing to evaluate:
- Skills definitions
- Techniques definitions
- Writing in-role
- Writing to analyse: skills development
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- Easter Island performance
- Pantomime trip
- Regional theatre visit
- Apply to lead a Y6 drama workshop
- Whole school production
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Monday 12:45 – 1:15pm
KS3 drama workshop led by KS4 students
Thursday 3:30 – 4:30pm
KS3&4 open rehearsal |
Useful Websites
BBC The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
http://www.pushtheatre.org
BBC Bitesize
Drama
Charles Causley: What Has Happened To Lulu?
Local Places to Visit
The Met theatre, The Lowry, Media City, The Palace Theatre, The Opera House, The Corner House, Home, Bolton Octagon |
Year 8
| No. of lessons per fortnight |
Frequency and length of homework |
Additional learning opportunities e.g. clubs, speakers, visits, residential … |
Department support e.g. intervention classes, revision classes … |
Additional guidance for parents e.g. exam board info, websites to support revision, books to read, useful places to visit … |
| 2 |
- Role-on-the-wall
- Research shower
- Annotating a script
- Retrieving information from a text
- Skills analysis
- Ideas selected and rejected record
|
- Regional theatre visit
- Professional workshops
- Whole school production
|
Monday 12:45 – 1:15pm
KS3 drama workshop led by KS4 students
Thursday 3:30 – 4:30pm
KS3&4 open rehearsal |
YouTube
Darkwood Manor trailer
CBeebies Panto: Aladdin
Ernie’s Incredible Illucinations, Scene 1
BazLurman’s Romeo & Juliet |
Year 9
| No. of lessons per fortnight |
Frequency and length of homework |
Additional learning opportunities e.g. clubs, speakers, visits, residential … |
Department support e.g. intervention classes, revision classes … |
Additional guidance for parents e.g. exam board info, websites to support revision, books to read, useful places to visit … |
| 2 |
- Research shower Annotating a script
- Role-on-the-wall
- Ideas selected and rejected record
- Retrieving information from a text
- Skills analysis
|
- Regional theatre visit
- Professional workshops
- Whole school production
|
Monday 12:45 – 1:15pm
KS3 drama workshop led by KS4 students
Thursday 3:30 – 4:30pm
KS3&4 open rehearsal |
YouTube
Epic History: World War One – 1914
Google
Stanislavski building a character
Willy Russell’s Our Day Out
BBC Bitesize
Drama |
Key Stage 4
| No. of lessons per fortnight |
Frequency and length of homework |
Additional learning opportunities e.g. clubs, speakers, visits, residential … |
Department support e.g. intervention classes, revision classes … |
Additional guidance for parents e.g. exam board info, websites to support revision, books to read, useful places to visit … |
| 5 |
- Research
- Workshop logs
- SMART Target sheets
- Skills Audit
- Learning Lines
- Research
- Link to exam theme
- Writing to persuade
- Formal Writing
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- Partnership projects with Manchester International Festival
- Half-termly theatre visits and professional workshops
- Collaborative performance opportunities with local colleges
- Local, regional and national performance opportunities
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Monday – Friday
12:30 -1:00pm – Open rehearsals
Tuesday, Thursday & Friday
3:30-4:30
Teacher led rehearsals |
Qualification
Pearson/Edexcel BTEC Performing Arts – Acting
Useful Websites
http://www.pushtheatre.org
Google
Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers
BBC Bitesize
GCSE Drama |
