This engaging 5-lesson scheme introduces Year 8 students to Verbatim Theatre through a step-by-step approach to creating their own performance. Each lesson includes a PowerPoint with a Key Question (KQ) to guide learning and discussion. Perfect for KS3 drama, the scheme builds understanding of documentary-style performance while encouraging empathy, listening, and collaboration. Includes: -5 fully resourced lessons -Clear learning objectives and outcomes -Key Questions to frame each lesson -Practical activities and performance tasks -Marking Scheme included Ideal for non-specialists or busy drama teachers looking for a ready-to-go unit.

This engaging Scheme of Work introduces Year 6 students to the fundamentals of Greek theatre through practical and creative activities. Across seven lessons, with an optional eighth filler lesson, students will explore key elements of ancient Greek performance, design their own masks inspired by Greek myths, and collaboratively devise their own short performances based on a myth of their choice. Key Features: Lesson Structure: Each lesson centers around a clear Key Question (KQ) to guide learning and reflection. Creative Outcomes: Students design and create their own Greek theatre masks, connecting art and storytelling. Performance Skills: Pupils develop core drama techniques including: -Three freeze frames -Three step outs -Three pieces of narration performed as a chorus -Use of canon and unison to enhance group performance Myth-Based Devising: Pupils select a Greek myth to inspire their devised performance, encouraging understanding of narrative and character. Flexible Planning: Includes an optional eighth lesson for additional practice or catch-up. Ideal for developing confidence, teamwork, and dramatic skills, this resource supports teachers with structured lesson aims and a focus on classical theatre traditions tailored for primary learners.

In this activity students will discuss the benefits of sports, complete a listening activity followed by creating their own crossword with new vocabulary they have learnt.

This stand alone drama lesson introduces Bertolt Brecht’s acting technique - Gestus. The lesson combines a little bit of theory and practice as an excellent starting point. This would be the perfect foundation to build upon, or simply a once off lesson as you explore different practitioners and their techniques.

This Folder contains several activities based around My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. This includes vocabulary review, introduction and a summary. This isn’t a complete unit of work but this activities could easily be incorporated with other work.

Through these worksheets students will review the features of narrative writing and practice their descriptive writing skills.

A range of useful drama comments to assist in your report writing. These comments are divided into two categories: general comment and improvement comment. These comments touch on a range of skills explored in the classroom.

Students will explore themes through the short film ‘Partly Cloudy.’

This 33-slide PowerPoint covers the entire novella, providing a comprehensive foundation for teaching and exploring the text. It includes a blend of reading and writing activities, with a gentle introduction to analytical skills linked to AO1 and AO2—ideal for helping Year 7 students begin developing critical thinking and textual analysis. This resource supports close reading, comprehension, and structured responses, making it a flexible tool for whole-class teaching, guided reading, or homework tasks.

This resource is a fantastic foundation covering the short story Vendetta by Guy de Maupassant. It includes reading comprehension questions and answers as well as key vocabulary. With an extended writing task if you want a more extensive lesson.

In this worksheet students will explore different blogs to become more familiar with the text type as a pre-activity before creating their own blog.

This worksheet contains two descriptive writing tasks that can be used to inspire extended writing pieces.

An interactive double lesson introducing Ebenezer Scrooge as a character. The lesson explores the first few pages of the text and how the setting reflects Scrooge’s character.

In this lesson parents will be exposed to a philosophy for children (P4C) lesson in order to understand what their children are experiencing in the classroom. The topic is based on ‘allowing children to fail in order to learn.’ Parents will explore different situations and when it is acceptable to allow children to make their own mistakes. Parents should come away from the lesson feeling postive about P4C and having a better understanding of the lesson structure and overall benefits.

This vocabulary list is based on a short films and theme studies unit introducing new vocabulary and reviewing it.

In this worksheet students will complete a vocabulary exercise to discover new vocabulary for their character profile. Followed by a list of areas (personal/personality/appearance) to describe in order to understand their character better.

These two worksheets take students through different exercises in order to work on their descriptive writing skills.

In this lesson students will be exploring fantasy and reality through philosophy for children (P4C). Defining these abstract concepts and exploring to what extent they impact one another and often overlap.

In this PPT students will be introduced to the rules of a fishbowl debate and its benefits.

In this worksheet students will explore audience, purpose and register and how these factors influence a piece of writing.

I this worksheet students will watch a video from YouTube about healthy study tips and complete a listening acitivity at the same time. After this they need to list the main study tips mentioned in the video. This is a great lead-in to a lesson about how to study in a healthy/positive manner.