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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SubscribePhysical Comedy: Drama skills
KS 3
This skills-based scheme of work is designed to encourage students to lose their inhibitions, embrace over-exaggeration and understand the structure of comic sketches. It will prove to be a firm...
The Pressures on Us
KS 3 KS 4
This devising scheme comprises six 2-hour sessions exploring a range of characters under a wide variety of pressures.
Somebody at the Door
KS 3 KS 4
A knock or ring at the door, followed by someone opening it, may allow a range of joys, miseries, crimes, regrets, fears, happy memories or surrealism into an existing situation.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
KS 3
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Gothic literature classic. It is a set text on the AQA GCSE English Literature syllabus, and giving students a practical introduction to the novella will...
Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Twits, Fantastic Mr Fox and Revolting Rhymes
KS 3
This scheme of work is based on Roald Dahl’s Revolting Rhymes and the play texts of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox and The Twits.
The pitfalls to avoid in devising drama
KS 3 KS 4
As they progress through the Key Stages, students learn how to devise or improvise their stories and make up the characters to people the worlds they create.
Scripted work: The Railway Children by E. Nesbit, adapted for stage by Mike Kenny
KS 3
This scheme of work uses the script of The Railway Children that was performed at Waterloo Station, and has been created to build on the script-based skills learnt either earlier in KS2 or in the...
Developing character: Backstories and subplots
KS 3 KS 4
You may take the Stanislavski view that actors should live in the world of their characters to present realism on stage. Or the Brechtian approach that an actor demonstrates a character without...
Immersive 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...