Drama (Key Stages 3 & 4)
Students are taught drama skills through a thematic approach in Key Stage 3. There are four strands of skills: Devising, Vocal, Physical and Technical. Each scheme of learning affords students the opportunity to develop the skills within each strand.
Key Stage 3
| Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 |
| Darkwood Manor (Devising) Miranda Zupp (Technical) Blood Brothers (Vocal) The Island (Vocal) Greek Theatre (Physical) | Ageing in the Community (Devising) DNA (Vocal) Let Him Have It (Physical) | I Don’t Like Mondays (Devising) Chatroom (Vocal) The Stones (Physical) |
BTEC Award (Level 2) in Performing Arts (Key Stage 4)
The qualification provides students with a broad foundation, which supports them to proceed into further training or education, or to consider employment in the performing arts world. The course aims to give a practical understanding of what a career in the performing arts world can entail, from the business side, to performance. (There is a specific focus on acting.)
Students study real-life, work-based case studies and complete projects and assessments for each unit of studied. The assessment process is on-going, so it allows the students to analyse and improve their own performance through their course in much the same way as they would in a real workplace.
| Component 1: Exploring the performing arts | Component 2: Developing skills and techniques | Component 3: Responding to a brief |
| Investigating how professional performance work is created and demonstrating the skills used to create this work. Internally assessed | Using rehearsal or production/design processes, applying skills and techniques in performance, and reviewing development. Internally assessed | Performance responding to a brief and evaluation of the development process. Externally assessed |