Teaching British Values
Drama prepares children for British life by allowing them to explore through their eyes and the eyes of others. It helps them to appreciate, empathise and enjoy the world around them.
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Drama Curriculum for 2014-2015
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Autumn 1
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Autumn 2
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Spring 1
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Spring 2
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Summer 1
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Summer 2
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Year 5
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Saving the Universe
Getting to know each other through the use of team building games and exercises.
Genre and the 3P’s
Creating and performing scripts form different genres.
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Readers Theatre
Using the stories from around the world such as folk tales, myths and legends such as Aesops Fables and Anansi the spider to create a piece of Readers theatre.
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Drama Improvisation
Using a range of starting points and drama techniques to explore a range of possible dramatic forms and structure.
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Haiku Poems
Using Drama strategies such as still Image and Thought tracking to perform poems.
Using Poetry as a Drama stimulus
Using drama strategies such as conscience ally, hot seating and cross cutting to explore poetry.
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Theatre History project
Working in smaller groups to research theatre from different ages collating together for a whole class presentation.
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The Twits
Reading and performing a play script.
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Year 6
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Vocalisation and Poetry
Using Voice to perform poetry.
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Early examples of Theatre Styles
Exploring different styles of theatre through characterisation
Pantomime
Creating a Christmas Performance.
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Urban legends
Physical theatre
Looking at different legends then creating some Berkoff inspired work such as
The Hitch hiker
Spider in the hairdo
Metamomorphosis
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Debating
Looking at the techniques of debating and structuring our own debates.
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Darkwood Manor
Exploring a mystery using teacher in role and other drama strategies.
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Shakespeare
Looking at sections of Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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Year 7
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From Page to Stage
Preparing small scripts for performance looking at Stanislavsky’s given circumstances through the stage directions, then rehearsing a larger script for performance
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TV
Looking at a range of TV genres such as soap opera and advertisements then creating our own.
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Mask and Mime
Exploring how the body conveys information through the convention of masks.
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Charlotte Dymond
Exploring a mystery using teacher in role and other drama strategies.
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Year 8
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Crisis point
In role Drama working as the Red cross in response to Flooding in London.
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From Page to Stage
Reading, Rehearsing and Performing a play script such as The Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty and A Game of Soldiers.
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Using Poetry as drama stimulus
What has happened to lulu?
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Shakespeare
Iambic pentameter and Shakespeare’s language.
Creating our own ‘Fakespeare’
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Devising
Selecting and preparing starting points for a performance.
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Film
Creation of a promotional piece of theatre to celebrate the school for new Year 5 students.
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