Schemes of Work
Twice each term, Drama & Theatre publishes five online schemes of work written by experienced teachers and examiners, which are available exclusively to our Full Membership, Digital Membership and Schemes of Work subscribers. They cover Key Stages 2-5 across a variety of exam boards and specifications, providing indispensable content for your classroom teaching.
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SubscribeWays into Creative Writing and Drama
KS 3 KS 4
This scheme of work, involving six 120-minute sessions, uses both Creative Writing and Drama.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
KS 4
The OCR Drama GCSE course, in common with the other exam boards, comes in three sections: the non-examined assessment Devising Drama, the examination performance Presenting and Performing Texts, and...
Courage and perseverance
KS 4
The subject of courage and perseverance is a big one, with many sources of inspiration to draw on.
Practical Puppetry
KS 4
When we think of puppets we may immediately think of Punch and Judy or a classic puppet theatre, however, the tradition of puppetry and puppet theatre is an art form that dates back to ancient Greece....
Ways of seeing
KS 3 KS 4
When we look at people or places, when we learn/hear/assume/witness things, we form judgements, we make decisions. Whether we are quick or slow to react, the ways a character sees things and is seen...
Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
KS 3
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales offers many opportunities for exploration through Drama. This scheme uses Chaucer’s story as the stimulus to explore character, improvisation, devising and ensemble...
The DNA Test: Building your own soap opera
KS 3 KS 4
The DNA test has brought blessings and heartache to millions. Long lost families have been reunited, relatives discovered. There is a growing interest in family history – where do I come from? Who am...
Of Mice and Men: A springboard for study of the classic novella
KS 3 KS 4
This scheme of work combines Drama and English to provide students with an understanding of the context, plot, and characters of the novel, as well as equipping them to make theatre based on the text,...
The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol
KS 4
This scheme offers a range of teaching ideas exploring the characters within the script and using on and off text activities, monologues, duologues, group and ensemble work that will give students a...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Exploring page to stage
KS 3
In this script-based scheme of work students are introduced to the conventions of a script through a familiar story; how to read out loud with expression; and an introduction to skills such as...