Senior Department Drama

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Welcome to Senior Drama

Drama plays an important role within the school. It is an energetic, exciting and enthusiastic department where every student can have the opportunity to thrive.

Every student in the senior department will have the opportunity to take part in Drama both in and out of curriculum time. All Key Stage 3 pupils have a weekly lesson with a drama specialist. Students in Years 10 and 11 have the option to take Drama and Performing Arts at GCSE and AS and A2 level. Not only do they work with a Drama specialist within the school students taking GCSE and A level also have the opportunity to work with theatre professionals within their courses.

We also encourage pupils to take part in the many varied extra curricular opportunities as well as this can help them to grow in confidence develop social skills and make new friends.

Topics and Aims & Curriculum

The Drama department assessment scheme is focused around the following areas; creating, responding, spoken response and written response. Students at all levels are assessed in these four areas and the schemes of work are designed so that students have the opportunity to grow in knowledge, understanding and confidence in these areas. Below you can see a map of the different topics we look at in Drama.

Key Stage 3

Year 7: Greek Myths and Legends Evacuees, The Tempest Puppetry, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Mime and Movement

Year 8: Wreckers WW1, Macbeth Using Masks, Physical Theatre Project

Year 9: Carl’s Story Slavery, Romeo and Juliet, West Side story, Induction to Year 10- Storytelling, Areas of study, Monologues and duologues

Key Stage 4

Year 10: Paper 1 Unit 1- mock, Paper 1 Unit 2- mock, Paper 2: devising from stimulus, Performance support or Scripted piece

Year 11: Paper 1 Unit 1, Paper 1 Unit 2 Paper 2: devising from stimulus, Performance support or Scripted piece

Extra Curricular

LAMDA examinations, Writing and performing in their own assemblies, Taking part in school productions- this year we are entering two plays in the one act play festival at the Carlton Theatre in Teignmouth, Theatre Trips and workshops with outside practitioners

Exam Results

GCSE

2008: 3Bs, 11Cs

2007: 3Bs, 8Cs, 2Ds, 2Es

2006: 1A, 2Bs, 7Cs, 2Ds

2005: 1A*, 3As, 5Bs, 4Cs

Drama Department Staff
Mrs Fenella Cooke Head of Drama & Performing Arts	Drama Department Video See Mrs Cooke (previously Townsend) on Trinityschool.tv !

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