A 1-hour lesson based around the cultural context of Blood Brothers, specifically looking at Mrs Johnstone and the role community. This has been planned for a class studying OCR GCSE Drama, but can be used anywhere that you will want to analyse context for this play. The lesson includes prompts for discussion and exam style answers.

This lesson is a perfect Christmas / Winter finale to the Autumn term. I personally use this with Year 8 after having studied Melodrama as it links quite nicely, but it can be adapted for any KS3 class. It is a lot of fun, but links to a lot of key vocabulary for Drama students.

This is a five session collection of revision sessions, encouraging students studying A-Level Edexcel Drama and Theatre Studies for Component 3, Section C. This will be helpful for those studying Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck. This resource has a range of activities that are interactive and help students remember / learn the most important details of this exam in a short space of time. The sessions can be easily edited to meet the needs of a range of students. This resource is tried and tested, to positive avail and is aesthetically pleasing for your students.

This is a revision session that can also be used as a lesson all about main characters in Blood Brothers for OCR’s Section A for the written exam at GCSE. Students will go through their interpretation of how they would act/direct each of the main characters. With teacher notes & key term hints, this is a perfect resource for those studying Blood Brothers, looking to delve into the character interpretation. Sources: BBC Bitesize

This is a short scheme of learning encouraging students studying A-Level Edexcel Drama and Theatre Studies for Component 3, Section C. This will be helpful for those studying Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck with the chosen practitioner of Brecht. This resource is both theoretical and practical, with a range of activities that will be interesting for your students and can be easily edited to meet the needs of a range of students. This resource is tried and tested, to positive avail but I would recommend teaching this after you have read the play and breifly analysed with your cohort. Sources: @NationalTheatre (YouTube) bbcbitesize @crashcourse (YouTube) rgiaccot (Kahoot) @bgsdrama (YouTube)

This is a revision session that can also be used as a lesson all about key points of social context for Blood Brothers in the context of OCR’s Section A for the written exam at GCSE. Students will go through the key points in depth specific to Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers. With teacher notes, a range of activities and driving questions to prompt thought, this is a perfect resource for those studying Blood Brothers, looking to delve into the context of this playtext. Resources: @Channel4News (YouTube)

A 1-hour lesson based around the context of Blood Brothers, specifically looking at 1950’s Liverpool. This links directly to social and cultural context of Blood Brothers and has been planned for those studying OCR GCSE Drama. This includes a PPT lesson for teaching and a supporting slideshow students should watch as part of the starter.

This scheme of work has been designed, tried and tested on Year 7 with great success, preparing them for the devising unit for GCSE Drama in a fun and accessible way. The scheme of learning gets students to work in groups, creating a piece of drama based around one stimulus. The lesson themes are: Lesson 1 - What is a Stimulus Lesson 2 - Structuring Drama Lesson 3 - Creating Character Lesson 4 - Scripting Lesson 5 - Assessment There are sentence starters for evaluation and lots of fun starters and plenaries to get your students engaged, ready to learn and calm upon exit. **Complete with live timers for assessment lesson

A 1-hour lesson based around the context of Blood Brothers, specifically looking at 1960’s Liverpool. This links directly to historical and cultural context of Blood Brothers and has been planned for those studying OCR GCSE Drama. This includes a PPT lesson for teaching and a few supporting articles for students to participate in a carousel activity as a distilling activity for a main body task. This can be scaffolded as the earlier sheets are an easier read, so you can easily differentiate this part of the lesson. References in fact sheet

A 1-hour lesson based around the context of Blood Brothers, specifically looking at the 1970’s and the political landscape of British people. This links directly to social and social context of Blood Brothers and has been planned for those studying OCR GCSE Drama. This includes a PPT lesson for teaching and a supporting worksheet the students can complete independently.