Primary Drama Curriculum: A possible curriculum for nine to eleven-year-olds

England has no curriculum framework for Primary Drama. It has a clearer and stronger curriculum profile within areas of learning in other UK countries. If primary schools don't plan a coherent Drama curriculum, ‘Drama’ can too easily be limited to the Christmas play, an occasional assembly performance and maybe a theatre visit, topped up with an after-school Drama club which not all children can attend or pay for. This is clearly inadequate and will not provide or ensure continuity and progression of learning in Drama for all children.

Primary school Drama is usually taught by class teachers who are not Drama specialists. However, with relevant and appropriate in-service training, primary teachers can teach Drama up for children up to the age of 11 and can use it effectively as a learning medium for teaching other subjects.