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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SubscribeThe Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
KS 4
This scheme offers a range of teaching ideas exploring the characters within the script and using on and off text activities, monologues, duologues, group and ensemble work that will give students a...
Looking at childhood
KS 3 KS 4
The theme of childhood has always proved a popular one with students. They enjoy remembering when they were younger and recreating some of their memories of these times in performance. Students also...
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht
KS 4
The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht is one of five set text choices for assessment up to and including 2023. This means that the current Year 11 will be the last cohort to sit a ‘Chalk...
Introducing live theatre production analysis to Year 9 students
KS 3 KS 4
The aim of this scheme is to enable Year 9 students successfully to develop the necessary analysis and evaluation skills to tackle live productions effectively.
A Christmas Story by Brian Wildsmith: Exploring literature through Drama
KS 2
Aimed at KS2 students who read the book as a whole class, the scheme uses a wide variety of games and drama techniques as well as introducing students to subject-specific drama terminology. This...
Oh what unfortunate events!: Exploring Lemony Snicket’s The Bad Beginning through Drama
KS 2
This scheme of work has been written to accompany a classroom reading of this first book in the Unfortunate Events series, and aims to deepen students’ understanding of the book as well as enlivening...
The Heist
KS 3 KS 4
The Heist is a scheme of work specifically aimed at Year 8, but is adaptable for Year 9 and the early stages on GCSE Drama in order to help students develop devised work.
The laws of civilisation
KS 4
During this scheme of work students will have the opportunity to explore many of them, working with a range of performance strategies and stimuli required for KS4 qualifications, ultimately combining...
Revenge: A dish best served cold
KS 3 KS 4
This scheme of six 90-minute sessions suggests ideas for story and the people to tell them without resorting to stereotypes. It proposes a range of drama skills that can be taught/employed and works...
Building fantasy worlds
KS 2
Building fantasy worlds lends itself to drama lessons on many levels - building imagination, giving life to inanimate objects, creating exaggerated characters with bizarre personalities, etc. As well...