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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SubscribeAn Inspector Calls by J.B. Priestley: An introduction
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KS 4
This six-week scheme is, fundamentally, an exploration of dramatic/theatrical skills, which uses J.B. Priestley's An Inspector Calls as a vehicle for progression. Over six one-hour workshops, GCSE...
People are complex
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KS 3 KS 4
As most drama is naturally character-driven, this scheme explores interesting and developed people from their outwardly straightforward exteriors to the deeper levels within. The majority of people...
All hail, Macbeth!
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KS 3
Macbeth: source of a backstage superstition and one of Shakespeare's best-known tragedies. I hope that this scheme of work will allow you to explore some of the areas of the play that are less well...
Looking at physicality afresh
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KS 3 KS 4
Physicality is part and parcel of children's play but as students get into KS3/4 in drama terms it needs to be harnessed, shaped, developed and used to push boundaries. This scheme develops from the...
Karamazoo
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KS 4
Karamazoo is from Philip Ridley's collection of plays The Storyteller Sequence. The play is written in two sections with the protagonist, Ace, being played as a female and then a male with the script...
Comedy and tragedy
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KS 3
Ask anyone for an image that defines theatre and they will recall the theatrical masks that symbolise the two key theatrical genres of comedy and tragedy. Ask anyone why these masks are used and they...
Groundhog Day
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KS 3 KS 4
The iconic movie of 1993 and now the stage musical of the same name have put the term ‘Groundhog Day’ into the public's consciousness. It means something that goes nowhere, round in circles, endlessly...
Blackout by Davey Anderson
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KS 4
This scheme of work is meant as a lead in to the new Edexcel specification and is ideal as a starter to the course. It explores the script Blackout by Davey Anderson and although this is not one of...
The art of communication
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KS 3
If the eyes are the windows to the soul then the voice must surely be the door to …? This unit of work aims to introduce students to some of the core skills of working with voice. Looking at how we...
Devising using stimuli from a given decade: 1990s
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KS 4 KS 5
This scheme uses articles, events, music, pictures, etc. from the 1990s as stimuli from which to devise original material. It is relevant for many new Drama & Theatre Studies exam specifications where...