Year 9 Drama Curriculum Plan

The drama course will be taught as part of the English course. The aims for the Year 9 course are as follows.

Each student should:

• identify with characters and actions through rôle-play, (for example, a dramatised story/and as spectators of a performance);
• have the confidence and ability to put across a particular point of view;
• learn how to work with others to solve human and practical problems;
• create and take part in improvised scenes in order to explore issues;
• invent and develop convincing rôles in specific situations;
• know how to structure dramatic sequences in order to convey meaning;
• be aware of the need for dramatic conventions (e.g. light, dark, movement, pause, sound, silence);
  
  
• be aware of and use a variety of dramatic forms and techniques, to express ideas and feelings (e.g. mime, movement, costume, make-up, props, set-design);
• appreciate drama in performance, both as participants and as spectators;
• understand the educational, cultural and social purposes of drama;
• develop a vocabulary of theatre/drama;
• explore the variety of human emotions through drama;
• learn to listen and concentrate;
• learn to respect and where appropriate, depend on, others (e.g. trust skills);
• develop awareness (sensitivity) and enjoyment of the ways groups work (e.g. decision-making, problem solving, negotiation), willingness to accept responsibility, a democratic approach;
  
  
• evaluate his or her achievements as an individual and through groups in which he or she works; learn critical awareness;
• appreciate the values and attitudes of their own and other communities, recognise social conventions and stereotypes - be prepared to examine them;
• explore cross-curricular themes.