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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SubscribeImmersive Theatre Needs a Lifejacket
KS 3 KS 4
Immersive theatre is all the rage nowadays. Exam students present their versions of set texts as ‘immersive’. Younger students are encouraged to draw the audience in, involving them more.
Theatre Through the Ages
KS 3
This scheme of work is designed to explore a range of different theatre styles through the ages. It includes lessons on Greek Theatre, Morality plays, Commedia dell’arte, Naturalism and Theatre in...
A Guided Tour of the Asylum
KS 3 KS 4
Theatre has always been the cradle of experiment, innovation and adaptation. This scheme is a way in to several kinds of student drama experiments, with alternatives for those who are not yet ready to...
The Beauty Manifesto by Nell Leyshon: Reading and exploring a set text with Year 9
KS 3
We introduced The Beauty Manifesto as our Year 9 scripted text last year because of the play’s timely focus on the pressure that society places on young people to conform to certain ideals of...
Shakespeare character work
KS 3
This scheme of work uses a range of Shakespeare’s characters as a basis for exploration and a springboard for devising.
Ways into Creative Writing and Drama
KS 3 KS 4
This scheme of work, involving six 120-minute sessions, uses both Creative Writing and Drama.
Ways of seeing
KS 3 KS 4
When we look at people or places, when we learn/hear/assume/witness things, we form judgements, we make decisions. Whether we are quick or slow to react, the ways a character sees things and is seen...
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
KS 3
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales offers many opportunities for exploration through Drama. This scheme uses Chaucer’s story as the stimulus to explore character, improvisation, devising and ensemble...
The DNA Test: Building your own soap opera
KS 3 KS 4
The DNA test has brought blessings and heartache to millions. Long lost families have been reunited, relatives discovered. There is a growing interest in family history – where do I come from? Who am...
Of Mice and Men: A springboard for study of the classic novella
KS 3 KS 4
This scheme of work combines Drama and English to provide students with an understanding of the context, plot, and characters of the novel, as well as equipping them to make theatre based on the text,...