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Year 7 schemes include Mime and Performance Poetry. Year 8 starts with an Improvisation scheme, followed by Page to Stage and then Storytelling. The aim in Year 9 is to deepen their learning in Drama while also providing a platform for further study at GCSE and beyond.
There are many extra-curricular opportunities for students to enjoy drama -frequent trips to the theatre, Year 7-9 Drama Club and LAMDA classes run at lunchtimes, alongside the lively rehearsals that lead to our much-loved annual School Production.
2012 - Oliver
2013 – Little Shop of Horrors
2014 – Wizard of Oz
2015 – Annie
2016 – Grease
2017 – Bugsy Malone
2018 - 13 The Musical
2019 - Legally Blonde
2020 - West Side Story
Following the AQA specification, the course looks like this:
- 60% of the GCSE is practical Controlled Assessment. Students have to create a devised piece of drama, (duologue or group work) that is assessed along with a ‘Devising Log’ by their teacher.
Students will study and perform two key extracts from one scripted play and this is marked by a visiting examiner.
All practical tasks can be undertaken as a designer as well as a performer.
- 40% of the GCSE is a 1 3/4 hour written paper at the end of Year 11. There are three compulsory sections.
Section A is a multiple choice.
Section B consists of four questions on a given extract from the set play chosen.
Section C is a two-part question on a live theatre production that the students have seen and studied.
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