Drama
Subject Vision
The Drama Department is committed to 'Educational Drama'. Educational drama focuses on the exploration of real issues, events and relationships through imagined situations rather than just the acquisition of a set of theatre skills and traditions. It is a process of learning through the art form rather than about the art form.
In Drama, pupils have a safe environment to explore their ideas creatively, showing awareness of themselves and empathy with others, in a community and global context.
They evaluate their work with a view to developing critical and analytical skills to demonstrate understanding of important ideas and issues in an appropriate way, using a range of theatrical skills for specific audiences.
The Drama Department won the Disney Bitesize Competition, led projects as part of the National Send My Friend To School Campaign where our Local MP The Rt Hon. Liam Byrne was invited to presentations, speeches and performances our pupils had created to raise awareness of the plight of children missing out on an Education throughout the world.
Past Theatre projects have included work with The Birmingham Rep, Big Brum, Shakespeare Schools Festival, The Wilde Festival, Women and Theatre and The Playhouse.
The Department is dedicated to contributing positively to the progress and wellbeing of our pupils.
Key Stage 3
In KS3, pupils receive one lesson of Drama a fortnight.
By the end of the Key Stage, the aim is that they will have received opportunities to develop their confidence in the key areas of CREATING, PERFORMING and RESPONDING.
This is done through devising, text-based work and evaluation of the Theatre.
By the end of the Key Stage, pupils will have broadened their application and understanding of skills with increasingly more challenging stimuli.
Key Stage 3 Drama builds discrete and transferable skills to develop confidence, communication, leadership, enquiry, creativity, empathy, analysis and evaluation.
