This scheme of work uses The Unravelling as the starting point for exploration of the text as a chosen script, for monologues, and as the inspiration for devised work. It uses the play to explore...
KS 4
This scheme of six two-hour sessions explores a range of approaches to love, especially the tough variety. Timings are suggested as guidelines only, and, as is often the case in schemes of work,...
KS 4
This scheme of work is based on two very well-known novels: primarily The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall, taken alongside Animal Farm by George Orwell. Although they are very different books,...
KS 3
The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, Philip Pullman’s touching tale of adventure, imagination, believing in and standing up for yourself, is hugely popular with KS2 students and is on the primary reading...
KS 2
Medea is a tragedy like no other. It is a play that is full of emotions, and it just doesn’t hold
back. From the very opening, the audience are left questioning not only the motives of every...
As children grow, parents, grandparents and others mark and note the likenesses and
differences with previous generations. Our genes often reveal our father’s eyes, our
mother’s nose or our...
This imaginative scheme of work explores themes of society, its structure, and the
responsibility of individuals and groups within it. By the end of the scheme, depending
of course on your...
It is important, particularly in Year 9, that students feel Drama is relevant and relatable.
Relationships with parents, struggles with mental health and exam pressure are always
topical subjects;...
This scheme of work is based on the legend of Beowulf.
The five lessons cover his journey from Geatland to the Land of the Danes, his killing
of Grendel and Grendel’s mother. The lessons use a...
Coming to England is the inspiring true story of Baroness Floella Benjamin who travelled from Trinidad to London as part of the Windrush Generation. This scheme explores the story and some of its...
KS 2
This is a two-part scheme of work for secondary Drama teachers, providing opportunities for learning devising skills and drama conventions in the first half; before exploring scripted work by focusing...
KS 3
Everyone has watched TV and film detectives as they ‘read a room’, searching a crime scene for clues and hints the killer has left behind, interpreting the signs and symbols of the scene for...
KS 3
Although many students interested in studying drama are quick to seize the opportunity of acting in or devising a comedy, it can be very difficult to get it just right. There is a reason many...
KS 4
The Maids by Jean Genet, is one of nine text choices, from Edexcel’s A level Drama and Theatre, Component 3, Section C: Interpreting a Performance Text in light of one practitioner for a contemporary...
KS 5
This scheme of work is based on The Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Each of the five lessons actively explores a different chapter. The lessons use a range of drama strategies and conventions, (including...
KS 2