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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SubscribeBlodin the Beast!
KS 3
This scheme of work takes students on a learning journey that aims to challenge, support and reinforce their writing and creativity at KS3. It explores the story of Blodin the Beast by Michael...
Developing approaches to the set text extract – Yerma
KS 5
This scheme explains how to prepare students for all three questions on the extract from the list B set text in Twentieth and Twenty-first-century Drama. Section B of the AQA written exam involves an...
The Beauty Manifesto by Nell Leyshon
KS 3 KS 4
The Beauty Manifesto by Nell Leyshon was originally commissioned for National Theatre Connections. The play is set in a dystopian future of extreme physical conformity, where teenagers celebrate their...
Imaginary Friends
KS 3 KS 4
The following scheme of work explores the themes of friendship, isolation, and what the function is of an imaginary friend. The play used here, Invisible Friends by Alan Ayckbourn, acts as a perfect...
Life is diverse, or is it?
KS 3 KS 4
One of our contemporary buzzwords is ‘diversity’ and we are indeed an increasingly diverse nation in terms of gender, ethnicity, faith, politics, ability/disabilities all sharing the same spaces. This...
Melodrama and commedia dell'arte
KS 3 KS 4
The aim of this scheme of work is to allow the students to explore melodrama and commedia dell’arte; they can use a lot of what they learn in their work in a physical way in the future and it helps a...
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett
KS 5
Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is one of the nine set texts for the new Pearson A level specification. These set texts form the basis of section C of Component 3: Theatre Makers in Practice....
Practically exploring play texts: Noughts and Crosses, Act 1
KS 4
This scheme explores Act 1 of the popular play text Noughts and Crosses as a stimulus. The scheme offers ideas on how to work with play scripts practically, with both on and off-text ideas and...
From Page to Stage: Analysing and interpreting dialogue
KS 4 KS 5
Here you will find a series of workshop activities for GCSE and AS level, aimed at sharpening students’ tools for interpreting and performing written texts. One of my bugbears as a fiction writer, is...
Chance Encounters
KS 3 KS 4
Every day, sometimes several times a day, we meet people, situations and events we had neither planned for nor expected. Such chance encounters can, and often do, change the course of our lives, for...