Curriculum – Drama

Vision

The arts are an integral and valuable resource within people’s lives. Everyone must have access to the arts as a fundamental aspect of their emotional growth and development.

Drama provides all learners the opportunity to engage with others, helping them to develop effective communication skills whilst encouraging collaboration on a wide range of creative arts repertoire, events, themes, moral and social issues. The curriculum offered has engaging SMSC strands running through each SOL which enthuses our students through its relevance to their own lives and the world in which they live.

Within our curriculum learners create, develop, rehearse and perform in scripted and devised performance styles, honing a range of dramatic skills and techniques. This helps them to understand, interpret and explore the evolving world around them. Learners participate in drama activities that enable them to understand and experience fictional and real-life events within differing contexts, thus establishing empathy.

Drama facilitates the key skills of cooperation, leadership, emotional intelligence, critical thinking and imagination whilst promoting core literacy, more specifically oracy. This in turn supports learners to become well-rounded, self-confident individuals, fostering an appreciation and enjoyment of the arts.

In addition to Drama lessons students are offered many opportunities as part of our wider curriculum to extend their experiences within the arts and their cultural capital. Some opportunities take place within school, but they also include live theatre visits, working with external agencies and theatre professionals.

Curriculum

Updated: July 2025

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