I am an 'Outstanding' qualified Secondary Drama teacher who currently teaches KS3 & KS4 English and KS3-KS5 Drama. I have also taught KS1 for two consecutive years prior to this.
I own a First BA (hons) degree in Drama and Performance and have been teaching for three years.
I am an 'Outstanding' qualified Secondary Drama teacher who currently teaches KS3 & KS4 English and KS3-KS5 Drama. I have also taught KS1 for two consecutive years prior to this.
I own a First BA (hons) degree in Drama and Performance and have been teaching for three years.
This 7 page document explores a variety of Drama Strategies with definitions, rules and examples of use.
This document can be used as revision for pupils or as stimuli starters to be explored through devised work in lesson time.
This pack includes:
5 slide power point including script and image stimuli. Finishing off with a success criteria for children to assess themselves on.
This Power Point focuses on the use of ‘Marking the Moment’ in drama and how it creates an impact on a performance piece.
Also included: ‘Our Day Out’ mini assessment sheet for teacher and pupils, focusing on their knowledge and understanding of the play and techniques used.
This KS3 Drama assessment sheet allows pupils to answer questions based on scriptwriting, drama styles, panto and stage directions.
This sheet is for easy understanding on a pupils ability and understanding for the KS3 drama curriculum.
This bundle includes 3 Power Point presentations.
Each presentation focuses on the different roles in the theatre industry that do not require you to be an actor.
These lessons are aimed for all year groups and are important to include in your curriculum. Not every pupil in your Drama class will want to be an actor and it is important to include the diverse skills that are required to bring any story to page, stage or screen.
Each Power Point can be adapted with personal preference (directors, producers, composers, etc) but all are covered already with video links and images.
I find these lessons to be popular with the pupils who are more reserved when it comes to performing in front of their peers. This allows them opportunities in your lesson time to design sets, play music, etc.
This pack includes:
6 slide Power Point presentation
Storyboard template
Script example
Mini Task: Sell an ugly Christmas jumper to someone with the use of persuasive language, adjectives and tone of voice.
Main Task: Write a script or design a storyboard detailing the scene of someone trying to sell either an unwanted present, jumper or cardboard box.
This lesson also encourages pupils to extend their script / storyboard for performance purposes. This includes a success criteria which looks for face and body language, purposeful movement, still images, mime, etc.
This pack includes:
10 slide Power Point presentation.
Storyboard template printout.
This lesson is designed for a Drama class but can be adapted to fit an English or Media setting.
Focusing on Advertising, this lesson prompts discussion on persuasive language, music, adjectives, direct address and more.
There are video links included that explore different styles of advertisement for different audience types. This prompts discussion on target audiences and how to correctly identify their themes.
Task: Sir Alan Sugar has challenged you with the task of promoting one of the following products through a 30 second TV advertisement:
Note-choose one product only!
Pupils are supplied with 3 different products and descriptions of what they are, what they do and how they benefit the buyer. Pupils are encouraged to use the storyboard (provided as a printout link) to create an advert that would fit their target audience and result in a successful campaign to sell the product.
This Power Point presentation is easily adaptable to focus on Set Design as a whole, rather than just for organising a Pantomime.
This scheme can be used for KS3 and for KS4 as a recap.
This presentation consists of 29 slides.
Learning Objectives:
To gain some awareness of the set design process.
To develop an understanding of the set designer.
This lesson covers:
Staging
Director
Scenic Designer
Production
Stage layouts
Prompt questions on benefits / disadvantages of different stage layouts
Diagrams
Recap Quiz!
Black Box theatre exploration
Design styles (minimalistic, realistic)
Scales
Materials
Transitions
Plenary
Also included is an opportunity for pupils to design their own stage design with the challenge to use as many areas covered in this scheme of work. This is also available as a printable document in the pack.
This pack includes:
12 slide Power Point presentation.
Newspaper article stencil for printout.
Newspaper example with labels
This lesson focuses on the difference in persuasive and manipulative language. Including different emotions that both techniques prompt in their target audiences to help sell their product.
Main Task: Using the magazine template, create a magazine article based on a product you are trying to sell.
(Success criteria encourages pupils to focus either on persuasive or manipulative language and different prompts for emotional connections to the product). Questions are also included to help pupils focus on all areas in which they will need to consider.
Two lesson presentations on Act One, Scene Six of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, and enhanced focus on Macbeth & Lady Macbeth’s relationship and power dynamic.
Also included: Focus and question stems surrounding both Macbeth & Lady Macbeth’s internal monologues and links to themes within Macbeth.
This also includes document attachments with optional printouts.
8 slide Power Point advertisement.
Lesson Objective: To prepare and rehearse a radio advertisement.
This lesson encourages pupils to create a radio advertisement for a new cereal product. Their success criteria is to focus on their tone of voice and the importance it plays in persuasion.
(Pupils are encouraged to keep this advertisement as a radio broadcast as this will allow more focus on their voice work).
Before sharing their work with the class, a prompt board has been provided for 20 minutes of work where pupils are encouraged to make a mind map, mini-script, editing and rehearsing and pair and share opportunities.
Slides of this presentation also present a variety of techniques used in both advertising and radio advertising and a checklist of what must be included.
This includes:
Power Point exploring Basic Drama skills with a restaurant-themed stimulus. This then expands into a traditional home-dinner setting with a bonus task of mirroring against a ‘dinner party gone wrong’.
Lesson plan further explaining the slides on the Power Point with extra tasks for excelling pupils.
This pack includes:
Power Point presentation that explains, explores and directs pupils into learning about the use of Greek Chorus in theatre.
This presentation explores how Greek Chorus has also been used in modern day film and theatre for starting points.
Lesson plan has also been included for further explanation on the presentation and what can be used to push pupils further with their explorations.
Video links are included on the final slide for sound stimuli and references.
38 page Power Point based on Timothy Winters.
This scheme focuses on Timothy Winters as a character, the impact of news articles, Still Images and Conscience Alley.
This pack includes:
Power Point presentation for classroom use
Word document printouts that further explain characters for visual / revision aid and script to follow Commedia Dell’Arte format.
Power Point presentation consists of 6 slides. These slides cover key characters and modern day representation of notable characteristics, success criteria and scenario starters for practical exploration.
This 6 slide Power Point is a quick and easy presentation for the introduction of Pantomime in Drama.
This slide introduces Pantomime’s beginning, exploration of genre and a breakdown of history. This follows examples of Panto, character styles with well-known examples, stock characters and theatre techniques.
This Power Point offers no practical activity but can be used as a visual breakdown with discussion points.
Lesson Objective: To introduce pantomime as a genre, exploring its traditions and stock characters.
This 32 page Power Point presentation explores the role of Set Designer in the theatre industry.
The presentation explores the role, responsibilities, skills and resources needed for this role. This is followed by examples of notable designers, video interview footage, tips on how to gain experience in this field as a beginner and activities to try out the role of being a Set Designer in class.
Following this is a clear breakdown (with images) on how the process of designing a set takes place in the world of theatre.
Both maximalism and minimalism is explored.
Finally, a quiz is included at the end of this quiz to provide an alternative method of revision.
This pack includes two lesson presentations and two print out Word documents for visual aid or revision.
These lessons focus on the stagecraft of Commedia, characters and notable characteristics, masks and exploration of physical theatre and script / scenario stimuli.
This Power Point presentation consists of 8 slides.
Learning Objective: To explore Pantomime stock characters and successfully demonstrate them.
This presentation starts with a challenge to identify images of stock characters and label their roles / names. For further challenge, pupils can list other stock characters with similar roles in different Pantomimes.
Following this is a success criteria list reading for practical exploration. The practical task for this lesson is to create a short scene in groups with identifiable stock characters that have been discussed earlier in the lesson.
A scenario has been included in this Power Point if prompts are needed for lower ability groups.
A critic board is also included for pupils to follow, should any performances be shown at the end of this lesson. This includes sentence starters on useful and constructive feedback for peers to share.
This lesson also includes a plenary for all that has been discussed / explored within the lesson.
This Power Point is used for a scheme of work focusing on Pantomime. However, it can be easily changed for a focus on the rehearsal process in theatre as a whole.
(Recommended for KS3 use but can be a simple recap for KS4).
This 11 slide presentation focuses on how a show is created from a strict rehearsal schedule. This lesson also allows pupils to learn about the stage and the correct terms for all stage points.
Included in this pack is a blank template of a stage for revision / game purposes - to correctly label each spot on a stage and the correct term. Also included is a printable version with all correct answers. This is also on the Power Point for group discussion.
Learning Objectives :
To understand the production rehearsal process
To develop an understanding of rehearsal techniques