Schemes of Work
Twice each term, Drama & Theatre publishes five online schemes of work written by experienced teachers and examiners, which are available exclusively to our Full Membership, Digital Membership and Schemes of Work subscribers. They cover Key Stages 2-5 across a variety of exam boards and specifications, providing indispensable content for your classroom teaching.
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SubscribeLizzie Borden, scripted work: A Memory of Lizzie by David Foxton

KS 4
Within this scheme of work students learn about the true story of Lizzie Borden, read and perform the play A Memory of Lizzie by David Foxton, learn the drama techniques of characterisation, Freytag’s...
Introduction to Physical Theatre

KS 4
The subject of physical theatre is huge and encompasses numerous dramatic strategies and skills. This scheme of work acts as an introduction to some of the techniques traditionally used as strategies...
The Perfect Crime

KS 3 KS 4
It has been argued that with greater understanding of DNA and other technological advances in the coming years, it will become almost impossible to get away with certain crimes. What a wonderful...
Big Dreams, Little Realities

KS 3 KS 4
This scheme of six two-hour sessions suggests a continuous story to develop characters and explore how realities can impact and shape people. There are alternative suggestions of different scenarios...
The Madness of Crowds

KS 4
This scheme of six two-hour sessions creates a story from a piece of crowd behaviour with several characters sporting credible backstories explaining why they are there and with a focus on some drama...
Blood Brothers by Willy Russell for AQA GCSE

KS 4
This scheme of work provides a series of introductory exercises on Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers. While it is designed for the AQA specification, it could easily be adapted to suit OCR. The AQA exam...
Who are you calling disabled?

KS 3 KS 4
Watching paralympian athletes, it’s often hard to remember that they are ‘disabled’. But the fact is that people dealing with enormous bodily challenges achieve the most amazing physical and mental...
Working from a variety of texts

KS 4
The activities throughout this scheme of work, which concentrates on devising as a collaborative process using a variety of texts as a stimulus, have been designed with the intention of making the...
It Takes a Team

KS 3 KS 4
Working through this scheme should broaden students’ thinking, encourage experimentation and prepare them for several aspects of the GCSE exam specifications they may engage in later.
Verbatim

KS 4
In this scheme of work students will develop an understanding of the style of verbatim theatre while exploring professional practitioners’ work, and examining the processes used to develop the...