Key Stage 3

Curriculum Overview

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Year 7 overview

Year 8 overview

Year 9 overview

 

GCSE Skills

 

  • Practical skills: Learning lines, creating tension, performing in different stage space, developing characters and understanding production design
  • To analyse and interpret the structure and form of texts
  • To analyse the demands of a text
  • To understand and be able to use sophisticated drama terminology
  • To respond to live theatre
  • To be able to answer exam style questions on the development and production of the play.
  • To define, understand and justify the genre , style and social historical context of a play/performance
  • To analyse the process of developing and understanding a role and whole performance
  • To analyse the relationships, themes and intentions of stories
  • To analyse the development of yourself as an actor
  • To be able to discuss and write evaluations on how effective a performance is through predicting and justifying the potential effect of a production on an audience
  • Stimulus exploration: responding to, analysing and devising from a stimulus
  • To be able to independently carry out explorative research on stimuli
     

By the end of year 9, students should be able to:

 

  • Apply practical skills: performing in different stage spaces
  • Apply practical skills: production design
  • Analyse and interpret the structure and form of texts
  • Understand and be able to use sophisticated drama terminology
  • Respond to live theatre
  • Be able to answer exam-style questions on the development and production of a play
  • Apply practical skills: use exercises and techniques to develop character and character relationships through rehearsal
  • Understand and define the genre of a play/performance
  • Apply practical skills: use characterisation skills
  • Perform to create tension and perform to promote variety
     

By the end of year 8, students should be able to:

 

  • Justify style and performance choices
  • Understand and be able to use drama terminology confidently and regularly
  • Apply practical skills: learn lines
  • Understand and define the style of a play/performance
  • Analyse the demands of a text
  • Understand the social/historical context of a play/performance
     

By the end of year 7, students should be able to:

 

  • Analyse the motivation of a character
  • Analyse the relationships, themes and intentions of stories
  • Discuss and write evaluations of how effective a performance is through predicting and justifying the potential effect of a production on an audience
  • Analyse the development of yourself as an actor
  • Carry out explorative research based on stimuli
  • Understand and be able to use drama terminology clearly
  • Use stimulus exploration: respond to, analyse and devise from a stimulus
  • Understand and define the different types of staging for a play/performance