Ryton – Subjects/Departments – Drama– Overview

 

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

Year 10

Year 11

Year 12

Year 13

 

Year 7

 

 

 

Topic Covered

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Assessment

Opportunities for parents to help

Confidence building skills.

 

School/family life.

 

Improvisation.

Year 7 Term 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All students encouraged to assess their own and each others work in a positive way through group discussion

 

The termly grade is based on practical performance on creative ideas which they have devised themselves.

 

The teacher will be looking at the use of voice, movement, characterization, and choreography

 

 

Discussion with students of topics covered.

 

Organize trips to the theatre.

Devising skills based on stimulus material, e.g. fairy stories, where the character is clear. The students dramatize the story.

 

Devising skills based on relevant  social issues, e.g. National No Smoking Day, Bullying

 

Text work

Litter and Rats

 

Devise a drama from a written stimulus

 

 

Term 2

 

 

 

 

Practical assessment still imaging and thought tracking of characters, facial expression, stance, gesture.

The students will be assessed and given their National Curriculum Level for year 7

Origins of European Theatre.

 Background history, Greek Chorus work, simple mask work, Text to performance.

 

Term 3

 

Year 8

 

 

 

Topic Covered

When

Assessment

Opportunities for parents to help

Role Play Skills, characterization.

create a character from written stimuli

portray the character and perform their role successfully

Term 1

 

 

Throughout the year the students are assessed on their practical performance skills and in particular we will be looking at voice, characterization, facial expression, stance, gesture.

Twice during year 8 the students will be assessed and given a National Curriculum level.

Discussion with students of topics covered

Encourage students to visit theatre.

 

Melodrama

Working with Text.

 be more confident in performing

understand more about using different techniques to develop a character

understand and use a scripted extract

Participate in writing a script and understand script conventions.

 

Temptation.

Term 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Term 3


Year 9

 

 

 

Topic Covered

When

Assessment

Opportunities for parents to help

 

 

 

Support for the English Key Stage 3 Shakespeare Text.

Practical exploration working on and off the chosen Shakespeare Play.

 

Commedia D’ell Arte

Italian stylized farce using movement and masks.

 

Final Key Stage 3 performance, based on text work

 

 

 

 

 

Term Two

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Term 3

 

Throughout the year the students will be assessed on their practical skills by the teacher.

Students are encouraged to assess their own work and that of others in a supportive manner.

 

 

Year 10

 

 

 

Topic Covered

When

Assessment

Opportunities for parents to help

GCSE  Drama

During this year the students will follow the Edexcel Drama course.

Drama skills knowledge and understanding will be taught through practical exploration.

 

The students will devise their own pantomime and perform this in the Spring term for the children in Ryton Infant School.

They will have

Opportunities to work with Professional theatre practitioners, and visit local theatres to see professional performances.

Two year course

Throughout the year the students will be assessed on their practical skills by the teacher.

Students are encouraged to assess their own work and that of others in a supportive manner.

Encourage students to attend theatre visits.

 

Year 11

 

 

 

Topic Covered

When

Assessment

Opportunities for parents to help

GCSE Drama

GCSE coursework

Unit 1

Drama Exploration

This unit of course work is concerned with

the use of drama to explore ideas and issues. Students

have the opportunity to use drama forms to

deepen their knowledge and to communicate this through the medium of drama.

UNIT 2

The purpose of this unit is to give

students knowledge and understanding of the

ways in which playwrights and performers,

 use the medium of

drama to communicate their ideas to an

audience.

 

Examination

 

This Paper is concerned with the skills

required in drama to perform work to an

audience. Students have the opportunity to

demonstrate their skills as performers or in a

theatre craft using any appropriate material as

a stimulus for performance.  Students may choose to perform an existing play script.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Term 1 and 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Term 3

May

60% teacher assessment of coursework. This includes practical skills and an individual portfolio of documentary evidence.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

40% externally assessed practical examination

 

 

Year 12

 

 

 

Topic Covered

When

Assessment

Opportunities for parents to help

GCE   A Level

Unit 1 Performance Skills

 

Unit 2 Planning for an Event

 

Unit 3 Performing for a commission

 

Ongoing throughout the year

 

 

Term 1 and 2

 

 

Term 2 and 3

Portfolio of work assessed by teachers, and moderated by external examiner

 

Portfolio of work assessed by teachers, and moderated by external examiner

 

 

 

Performance during term 3 before an audience, and examined by an external examiner

http://www.edexcel.org.uk/VirtualContent/83970/UA015713_Performing_Arts__8781___9781_Spec.pdf

 

Year 13

 

 

 

Topic Covered

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Opportunities for parents to help

Unit 4 employment opportunities in the Performing arts

 

Unit 5 Advanced performance Practice

 

Unit 7 Production Delivery

 

Term 1 and 2

 

 

 

Term 1

 

 

 

Term 2 and 3

Portfolio of work assessed by teachers, and moderated by external examiner

 

Portfolio of work

 

 

 

Performance in the summer term for invited audience, and examined by an external examiner