Of immediate and obvious value to GCSE students, with specification-linked resources, this fails so far to harness the power of drama in younger or older years and in other subjects

BBC Bitesize is a massive resource covering all subjects, but drama is a new addition, and only offers content for KS4. This is progress, and not to be knocked, but I hope that in time there may be resources added for younger years which take into account the value of drama in cross-curricular settings.

Beginning my exploration of the site in the Primary section, I was tempted to take up KS1 Mandarin because, well, I've got time at the moment… and it struck me that there would be plenty of opportunities for drama techniques to be used in the languages and PSHE section here, as well as across KS3 – but sadly these opportunities are missed.

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