Year 7

Students in Year 7 have a drama lesson with their English teacher where they are able to explore characters and ideas from the texts they study in the classroom. They also have the opportunity to come to a lunchtime Drama club, and are invited to audition for the school play.

Year 8

Students have a discrete Drama lesson once a week where they are introduced to different and imaginative ways of exploring and presenting ideas, using a range of different stimuli such as historical events, poetry, play text, images, music  and artefacts. Year 8 students also have the opportunity to audition for our whole school play, and make up a valuable part of the chorus. There is a lunchtime improvisation Drama club for Year 8’s once a week. 

Year 9

Students continue to have a Drama lesson once a week. In year 9, lessons are designed to give students an idea of the way they will be expected to work at GCSE. They learn how to devise from a stimulus and how to work with text, as well as developing physical and vocal performance skills. There is a lunchtime playreading club for Year 9 students once a week.As part of the Year 9 Drama course, we have previously worked with Trestle Theatre Arts company, on using their fantastic Trestle masks to create performances. We now own Trestle Masks, so students may have an opportunity to experiment with mask work in their lessons.

GCSE Drama

Our GCSE in Drama provides opportunities for students to understand and create drama as a practical art form. They develop a range of theatrical skills and work collaboratively to generate and communicate ideas and meanings through informed artistic choices.

During the course, you will have the opportunity to :

• devise your own original work
• rehearse and perform extracts from a range of play texts
• work as creative artists through exploration and rehearsal
• document the rehearsal process
• study a play text in depth
• analyse professional live theatre

We follow the OCR Drama GCSE Curriculum. More information can be found here:

https://www.ocr.org.uk/qualifications/gcse/drama-j316-from-2016/