Year 10 Drama

The Year 10 Drama course has four units of learning. Creating physical and image-based theatre is the focus of the first unit where the students will make an original piece of theatre. They will go to the theatre to see a Red Leap Theatre Company performance and have the opportunity to work with professional actors.

In term two, students will create and perform a Spoken Word piece. They will start from a shared theme and create a piece of work that will be used to develop their expressive skills, microphone technique and build their stage presence. 

Students will then work on excerpts of text to develop their acting technique and an understanding of different approaches to acting in differing styles of theatre.

As the final part of the course, students will study a play and perform excerpts for an audience. Creating a role is the key skill here, while other key dramatic concepts such as conflict, subtext and the structure of a play are investigated.  

The aim of the course is to explore drama to facilitate the students physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development.