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 Beauty Manifesto by Nell Leyshon
KS 3 KS 4
The Beauty Manifesto by Nell Leyshon was originally commissioned for National Theatre Connections. The play is set in a dystopian future of extreme physical conformity, where teenagers celebrate their...
Imaginary Friends
KS 3 KS 4
The following scheme of work explores the themes of friendship, isolation, and what the function is of an imaginary friend. The play used here, Invisible Friends by Alan Ayckbourn, acts as a perfect...
Stig of the Dump: Using the book as a resource to teach the Stone Age to the Iron Age through Drama
KS 2
Clive King's Stig of the Dump is now more than 50 years old, and yet it remains a children's classic. Following the adventures of Barney and Stig, a Stone Age man who lives in a quarry, the book is...
Life is diverse, or is it?
KS 3 KS 4
One of our contemporary buzzwords is ‘diversity’ and we are indeed an increasingly diverse nation in terms of gender, ethnicity, faith, politics, ability/disabilities all sharing the same spaces. This...
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
KS 5
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is one of the nine set texts for the new Pearson A level specification. These set texts form the basis of section C of Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice....
How Ruskin becomes a hero: A look at Philip Ridley's Krindlekrax through Drama
KS 2
Krindlekrax, Philip Ridley's touching tale of adventure, imagination, believing in and standing up for yourself, is hugely popular with KS2 students. It is an ideal starting text from which to explore...
Practically exploring play texts: Noughts and Crosses, Act 1
KS 4
This scheme explores Act 1 of the popular play text Noughts and Crosses as a stimulus. The scheme offers ideas on how to work with play scripts practically, with both on and off-text ideas and...
From Page to Stage: Analysing and interpreting dialogue
KS 4 KS 5
Here you will find a series of workshop activities for GCSE and AS level, aimed at sharpening students’ tools for interpreting and performing written texts. One of my bugbears as a fiction writer, is...
Nina Bawden's The Peppermint Pig: A look at the book through Drama
KS 2
Nina Bawden's The Peppermint Pig won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize in 1976, and has been considered a children's classic ever since. It is full of down-to-earth humour and gutsy realism and...
That Face by Polly Stenham
KS 5
That Face by Polly Stenham is one of the six set texts for the latest Pearson/Edexcel AS and A level syllabus; the set texts form the basis of the ‘Page to Stage’ element of the exam, which requires...