Krindlekrax, Philip Ridley's touching tale of adventure, imagination, believing in and standing up for yourself, is hugely popular with KS2 students. It is an ideal starting text from which to explore...
KS 2
One of our contemporary buzzwords is ‘diversity’ and we are indeed an increasingly diverse nation in terms of gender, ethnicity, faith, politics, ability/disabilities all sharing the same spaces.
This...
The aim of this scheme of work is to allow the students to explore melodrama and commedia dell’arte; they can use a lot of what they learn in their work in a physical way in the future and it helps a...
KS 3
That Face by Polly Stenham is one of the six set texts for the latest Pearson/Edexcel AS and A level syllabus; the set texts form the basis of the ‘Page to Stage’ element of the exam, which requires...
KS 5
This scheme covers 12 weeks with 4 lessons per week. Each lesson is an hour long. Learners will have time to work on research, Log Books and evaluation during private study periods. You will find the...
KS 5
The aim of this scheme of work is to prepare students to create non-naturalistic devised work for the Component 2 unit of the AQA GCSE Drama course. It is a six-activity plan about how to start and...
KS 4
Nina Bawden's The Peppermint Pig won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1976, and has been considered a children's classic ever since. It is full of down-to-earth humour and gutsy realism and...
KS 2
Every day, sometimes several times a day, we meet people, situations and events we had neither planned for nor expected. Such chance encounters can, and often do, change the course of our lives, for...
KS 3
The aim of this scheme of work is to allow the students to explore Physical Theatre and Mask Work with a particular focus on Trestle masks – although this can be adapted to suit any masks. The aim of...
KS 3
Performing Arts learners are required to use their acting skills in two short contemporary drama performances. Each performance should be an extract from a play written after 1930. The two plays...
KS 5
The aim of this scheme of work is to give students an introduction to Shakespeare and the opportunity to experience a range of his plays. In each lesson they will look at the plot lines and explore a...
KS 2
Teaching Drama to students with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and other Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) at KS3 can present challenges to some teachers of Drama who have only...
KS 3
This scheme explores Act 1 of the popular play text Blood Brothers as a stimulus. The scheme offers ideas on how to work with play scripts practically, with both on- and off-text ideas and activities....
KS 3
This scheme of work uses the issues raised in Benjamin Zephaniah's novel to inspire students’ own ideas for devised work. The story focuses on a teenage boy who is unwittingly involved in a terror...
KS 4
