Key Stage 3
Curriculum Overview
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GCSE Skills
- Practical skills: Learning lines, creating tension, performing in different stage space, developing characters and understanding production design
- To analyse and interpret the structure and form of texts
- To analyse the demands of a text
- To understand and be able to use sophisticated drama terminology
- To respond to live theatre
- To be able to answer exam style questions on the development and production of the play.
- To define, understand and justify the genre , style and social historical context of a play/performance
- To analyse the process of developing and understanding a role and whole performance
- To analyse the relationships, themes and intentions of stories
- To analyse the development of yourself as an actor
- To be able to discuss and write evaluations on how effective a performance is through predicting and justifying the potential effect of a production on an audience
- Stimulus exploration: responding to, analysing and devising from a stimulus
- To be able to independently carry out explorative research on stimuli
By the end of year 9, students should be able to:
- Apply practical skills: performing in different stage spaces
- Apply practical skills: production design
- Analyse and interpret the structure and form of texts
- Understand and be able to use sophisticated drama terminology
- Respond to live theatre
- Be able to answer exam-style questions on the development and production of a play
- Apply practical skills: use exercises and techniques to develop character and character relationships through rehearsal
- Understand and define the genre of a play/performance
- Apply practical skills: use characterisation skills
- Perform to create tension and perform to promote variety
By the end of year 8, students should be able to:
- Justify style and performance choices
- Understand and be able to use drama terminology confidently and regularly
- Apply practical skills: learn lines
- Understand and define the style of a play/performance
- Analyse the demands of a text
- Understand the social/historical context of a play/performance
By the end of year 7, students should be able to:
- Analyse the motivation of a character
- Analyse the relationships, themes and intentions of stories
- Discuss and write evaluations of how effective a performance is through predicting and justifying the potential effect of a production on an audience
- Analyse the development of yourself as an actor
- Carry out explorative research based on stimuli
- Understand and be able to use drama terminology clearly
- Use stimulus exploration: respond to, analyse and devise from a stimulus
- Understand and define the different types of staging for a play/performance