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Drama Route

In Drama, curriculum design considers the 3 What Matters statements holistically through purposefully planned creative processes (learning episodes) The dynamic nature of the expressive arts means that the drama curriculum considers a range of stimuli and techniques as well as styles, genres and creative texts across all disciplines and spanning people, places, cultures and time. Planned opportunities for critical appreciation and response as well as experiences of actual and virtual venues to engage with live theatre performance.

What Matters

• Exploring the expressive arts is essential to developing artistic skills and knowledge and it enables learners to become curious and creative individuals.
• Responding and reflecting, both as artist and audience, is a fundamental part of learning in the expressive arts.
• Creating combines skills and knowledge, drawing on the senses, inspiration and imagination.

Progression points

In Drama progression over time is monitored through the skill development of creating, interpreting, performing and responding. Through midpoint teacher judgements and end point assessments progress is assessed using progression rubrics to determine the increasing effectiveness of each learner. This is demonstrated in moving from doing something with support at the baseline towards autonomy and sophistication of the skill. Progression in learning is monitored through the gradual use and re-use of the 4 skills outlined below:

1. Create and develop ideas to communicate meaning for theatrical performance (Create)
2. Apply theatrical skills to realise artistic intentions in live performance (interpret)
3. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how drama and theatre is developed and performed (perform)
4. Analyse and evaluate their own work and the work of others. (respond)

Discipline-specific considerations

Drama includes acting, directing, design, technical theatre and arts administration has experiences, knowledge and skills that increase in levels of complexity across the learning continuum. These include:

• plot, character, thought, relationships (which encompasses interaction), tension, focus, place, time, language, voice (which encompasses accent, diction, pitch, tempo, pauses), movement (which encompasses gesture, facial expressions), proxemics, atmosphere, mood, symbols, design which encompasses stage lighting, sound, set, hair, make-up, costume, script writing, directing and stage management
• comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy, farce, musical theatre, melodrama, mime, physical theatre