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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SubscribeRoald 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.
Commedia dell’arte
KS 4
In this scheme looking at the genre of Italian commedia dell’arte, KS4 students explore the physicality of the stock characters, understand lazzi, how commedia plays were structured and the six...
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.
Our Country’s Good by Timberlake Wertenbaker
KS 5
Our Country’s Good is a popular choice of text for Component 1, Section A of the AQA Drama and Theatre A level exam.
The Hobbit: Exploring Tolkien’s world through drama
KS 2
The Hobbit has everything a book needs to captivate young minds: adventure, colourful, mystical characters, and a fantasy world brought masterfully to life by the author.
After Juliet by Sharman Macdonald
KS 4
This scheme invludes a variety of techniques to help create a good understanding of the play and main characters. It will also be helpful for students in the creation of well-rounded characterisations...
Seen through the eyes of a horse: Exploring Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty through Drama
KS 2
Black Beauty, first published in 1877, is as much a children’s classic today as it ever was. Loved by generation after generation, it is a brutally frank ‘autobiography’ of a horse, and explores the...
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...
The Tempest
KS 4
This scheme of work uses Shakespeare’s The Tempest as a springboard for KS4 devising work. It focuses on different areas of the text examining the characters and themes and suggesting ways in which...
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...