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The drama department aims to encourage and develop the potential of every student. Our work in drama focuses on creativity, building confidence, an understanding of values and cultural change as well as knowledge about drama forms and history. It provides opportunities for teamwork, debate, analysis and evaluation but will also provide enjoyment and an interest in drama and theatre. Students make and perform their own work based on themes and issues which are chosen to engage and stimulate. The department is lead by an experienced drama specialist.
Meet the Team
Year 7
Students are introduced to the basic drama working skills such as team work, co-operation and the need for commitment and concentration. They focus on techniques such as freeze frame, hot seating, mime and teacher in role. Issues explored are the life of a Victorian child, Circus! Greek Theatre (Antigone) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
 Year 8The skills and techniques of Yr 7 are consolidated and extended with students exploring such themes as teenage knife crime, a murder mystery, Elizabethan theatre and Macbeth. Improvisation, characterisation, staging and spatial awareness are all explored in greater detail.
Year 9 Students look more closely at structuring their drama work and multiroling. We also investigate Victorian melodrama and Mask work – using the Trestle Theatre masks. Students are encouraged to be more daring and creative with their role play and to explore themes and issues much more deeply.
Key Stage 4
Students study AQA GCSE Drama (4242) a course which allows them to explore different aspects of practical coursework with a wide choice of components. The coursework element of the exam is complemented by a written examination where students write about the practical work they have taken part in, a play text that they have studied and a production that they have seen.
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