A funny play loosely based on the Grinch by Dr. Seuss, and the well known movie. The story revolves around the town of Whoville, where all the Whos love Christmas. In fact they love Christmas so much it is all they talk about! However, a mysterious outcast lives to the North of the town; this outcast hates Christmas and anything to do with the festive time of year. This outcast is called the Grinch! The play follows the story of Cindy-Lou and her family as they open up to the Grinch, and try to show him what Christmas is all about. However, the Grinch has his own plans to ruin Christmas for the town, and steals all the presents on Christmas eve. He has a change of heart however when he hears the town enjoying Christmas even though he had stolen all of the presents. His heart grows and he quickly returns the gifts and takes part in all the festivities. There are song recommendations throughout the script, with a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and modern songs. There are 28 speaking parts, with additional non-speaking roles too for up to 30 students. The play is around 40-50 minutes long. I hope you have fun with it, my class had a ball! If you are unsure whether it will suit your class, download a free preview and give it a go! ⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻ I also have some more Christmas play scripts in my store including: A Christmas Carol (A School Remix) Elf A Christmas Carol (A Traditional Version) The Santa Clause To save money you can buy all four play scripts in my Christmas Play Script Bundle (saving nearly 40%) - link below: Christmas Play Script Bundle ⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚ For more great resources check out Creative Primary Literacy

This is a fully loaded 15 lesson scheme of work that is an enjoyable, engaging, active and fun introduction to drama. Ideal for use at the start of a new academic year or for any class that are unfamiliar with the basic conventions of drama. Not only will students enjoy a range of practical activities, they will also learn a whole host of important drama skills which will make them strong, well rounded performers. Lessons in the scheme run as follows: Lessons 1-3 - Drama games - 20 games, fully explained, that are guaranteed winners for any group Lesson 4 - Voice work Lesson 5 - Freeze Frames Lesson 6 - Thought Tracking Lesson 7 - Mime Lesson 8 - Levels and Proxemics Lesson 9 - Soundscaping / Off Stage Drama Lesson 10 - Mime Lesson 11 and 12 - Improvisation and Developing a Concept Lessons 13 and 14 - Rehearsal - highly structured lesson with guidance on good rehearsing. Choice of 3 assessment tasks for teacher to choose from Lesson 15 - Performance and Evaluation (evaluation can take the form of an extended activity to be completed in a separate lesson) The scheme now includes a series of knowledge organisers that you can use with your students to revisit key concepts! Ideal for less experienced teachers and non-subject specialists as well as more experienced drama teachers. Engaging and fun PowerPoints with very little adaptation required. Tasks are accompanied by supporting notes where necessary so that all tasks are easy to follow and teach. A complete and fully resourced scheme of work designed to engage students from lesson 1 and make Drama the subject they all talk about! Ideal for building strong, well rounded and skilled performers. Would suit key stage 2, 3 and 4. For some reason the preview feature doesn’t seem to work properly on some of the resources but they all download fine and are formatted correctly when downloaded.

This resource is for teachers who are introducing a group to Brecht techniques. The resources has many activities, devising stimuli and tasks included as well as explanations  of most commonly seen Drama techniques used in Epic Theatre. The power point is engaging and full of information to develop their subject knowledge and improve specific vocabulary usage in lessons. Groups have responded very well to it over the past few years. Can be used with KS3 or KS4. There is enough content to last half a term dependent on time allocated.

KS3 Drama Cover Lessons Booklet A booklet of 26 different cover lessons for KS3 Drama. A range of worksheets and tasks suitable for desk based Drama or could be adaptred for Remote Learning. Included are the cover sheets for each lesson and any worksheets needed (78 page document) - great for last minute cover lessons. Cover sheets do include a mix of written and practical tasks. I have tried to keep them generic to make them easy to adapt to the topic of the lesson or to be able to used last minute for any class. Could also be used as tasks for students in isolation room. A PDF version and a Powerpoint version of the booklet are included so that you can adapt to the needs of your lesson.

A grid of written Drama activities that students can choose from. Perfect for cover lessons where practical work isn’t possible. The tasks are for all abilities and my students have found the instructions easy to understand when prefaced with the instruction ‘this lesson, choose one activity from the grid’. It should not require any additional work on the teacher’s part. Perfect if too poorly to set SoW based cover.

UPGRADED RESOURCE PACK! Review 1:- Great resource - highly appreciate this. Very detailed. Thank you! Review 2:- I decided to teach Year 9 the Blood Brothers text early before the GCSE students study it. I have purchased the scheme of work by Phil Brooks. I have tweaked it a little bit for a non-specialist, who doesn’t know the play well, but I recommend it in case anyone else is doing similar. Explore the classic play BLOOD BROTHERS by Willy Russell, using this extensive Drama resource pack which investigates in detail all the key characters and plot sequences, along with the cultural, historical and social contexts of the story. The scheme comes complete with 10 detailed powerpoints and supporting resources, so no planning needed - it is ready to go! This tried-and-tested pack includes… Lesson powerpoints (10 lessons) Digital workbook Scheme of work (20+ lessons) Coursework checklist Project evaluation

This booklet is targeted at KS3 students (Y7-Y9) as a supplementary resource to practical learning. The aim is for students to work through an assigned task or tasks independently, in a classroom. There are a variety of tasks: Reading Comprehension (Practitioners) Gap filling + Key Words Word searches Storyboards Multiple Choice Quiz Script/Creative Writing Design Challenge (Set/Costume/Poster) Live Theatre Evaluation (x3) Content: Origins of Drama Devising Theatre Audience Configuration Roles and Responsibilities Practitioners (Frantic Assembly, Steven Berkoff, Konstantin Stanislavski, Bertolt Brecht) Style and Genre Dramatic Conventions Melodrama Voice and Language Areas of the Stage Character Live Theatre Ideal for classroom based cover and/or non-specialist Drama teachers. The booklet can be used chronologically or as a series of separate tasks, whatever the teacher deems appropriate. The booklet can also be used as a homework resource.

Bring Dickens’ A Christmas Carol to life with this complete, ready-to-teach KS3 drama scheme of work, written by an experienced drama teacher and former Head of Drama. It’s perfect for the run-up to Christmas. Ten fully planned 60-minute lessons take Years 7 and 8 through the whole story, from “Bah! Humbug!” to “God bless Us, Every One!” Every lesson is packed with drama games, practical activities and group tasks, so pupils are on their feet from start to finish. Each lesson comes with its own PowerPoint and teacher notes, so it’s ready to go straight away. No copies of the book are needed. What’s included: 10 lesson presentations (PowerPoint, fully editable) A 32-page scheme of work with lesson plans, teacher background and a stave-by-stave summary Over 20 drama games and activities, including Scrooge Says, Marley’s Footsteps, Fezziwig’s Christmas Party, Pass the Pudding, the real “Yes and No” game from the story, Follow the Phantom and Wake Up, Scrooge! Dickens made easy: key lines from the original story shown side by side with plain-English versions Drama skills that build lesson by lesson: still image, narration, status, soundscape, slow motion, physical theatre, flashback, thought-tracking, mime, hot-seating, split focus and transformation A rehearsal lesson and a final group performance lesson An assessment grid, feedback frames, a pupil self-assessment checklist, a skills word bank, an activity bank and a glossary Homework for every lesson Lesson overview: Bah! Humbug! Meet Scrooge Victorian London: Rich and Poor Marley’s Ghost The Ghost of Christmas Past The Cratchits’ Christmas Fred’s Party: Games and Laughter The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come Christmas Morning: A Changed Man Our Christmas Carol: Rehearsal Performance: God Bless Us, Every One! It’s a great introduction to a text many pupils will study again for GCSE English Literature.

This is a play script for Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’. It tells the story of a mean, old man named Ebenizer Scrooge, who runs a dark and miserable buisness. His workers are under-paid and over-worked, especially his assistant Bob Cratchett. It is Christmas eve and his Bob asks for the day off to spend time with his family, and sick child – Tiny Tim. Scrooge almost refuses but decides to just dock his pay for the day. Then, that evening he gets a visit from his previous business partner – another miserable person called Jacob Marley. Marley tells him he needs to change his ways or end up with the same fate as him; he tells him how he will be visited by three ghosts that night. The ghosts visit and show Scrooge various things that upset him enough to change his ways. After the visits of the ghosts Scrooge wakes up on Christmas day a changed man and tries to put right all the wrongs he has caused over the previous decades! There are song recommendations throughout the script and roles for 19 speaking parts, with extra roles for up to 30 students. I hope you have fun with it! ⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻⎻ I also have some more Christmas play scripts in my store including: A Christmas Carol (A School Remix) Elf A Christmas Carol (A Traditional Version) The Santa Clause The Grinch To save money you can buy all four play scripts in my Christmas Play Script Bundle (saving nearly 40%) - link below: Christmas Play Script Bundle ⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚ For more great resources check out Creative Primary Literacy

Elf tells the story of ‘Buddy the Elf’ who was accidentally taken to the North Pole in Santa’s sack one Christmas Eve. He stayed in the North Pole until adulthood and grew up thinking he was an elf himself. One day he found out he was a human, and decided to go and visit his biological father in New York. On arrival he wasn’t welcomed by his father until a DNA test reassured him that he was actually his son. The family grew to like Buddy, and he also found a girlfriend – but then everything changed when he fell out with his father one day and decided to leave. But as he was walking alone he heard a crash in Central Park, when he went to investigate he noticed it was his good friend, Santa. The family caught up with him and realised he had been telling the truth all along, he was in fact an elf from the North Pole. The friends and family all worked together to lift Christmas spirit and thus power Santa’s sleigh to ensure he could finish his deliveries. There are song recommendations throughout the script, with a mixture of traditional Christmas songs and modern songs. There are 20-22 speaking parts, with additional non-speaking roles too. I hope you have fun with it, my class had a ball! The play is around 40-50 minutes long. ⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚⏚ For more great resources check out Creative Primary Literacy

This is a step-by-step guide, with detailed examples, of how to write the evaluation for the devsing component for Eduqas GCSE drama.

A simple but effective six week scheme of learning that introduces Year 7 pupils to secondary drama. The resource includes: 1 - basic supporting PowerPoint 2 - detailed lesson plan for each lesson with clear instructions to activities 3 - a concise mid-term plan / sequence of lessons 3 - a module sheet with targeted assessment outcomes 4 - an assessment record sheet that allows for live, not retrospective assessment at the end of the module 5 - a copy of assessment thresholds for Key Stage 3 6 - a copy of my marking and assessment policy If you are happy with this resource, please leave me a review. If not, feel free to contact me.

Cover lesson task for KS3 drama pupils. The task is scaffolded so that pupils can complete it independently with little to no input from the teacher making it perfect for lessons covered by non-specialists. Pupils work through simple tasks on the sheet to help them to organise ideas for a play before they write their own script (e.g. ‘A genre or topic that interest me is:’; 'My play will be set in the following place: '; etc). This could be completed over more than one lesson to allow pupils to develop their writing and create longer scripts. They could then work practically to create scenes of scripted drama using their own or each other’s work. Pupil ownership / engagement: Top writing tip from David Walliams’ radio talk with Chris Evans on BBC Radio 2 (paraphrased) Scope for pupils to write about whatever genre, topic, characters, setting etc that interests them **Challenges: ** Use stage directions. Use different vocabulary for each character to show their individual personalities. What does a play look like? Format your work like a professional playwright would! **Resources required: ** Pens / pencils, paper or workbooks, the worksheet provided OR Computers / laptops for pupils to type their work & the worksheet provided (alternatively it could be emailed to pupils to save trees… we all <3 trees!)

1 hour lesson on a 20 mark question from the AQA GCSE Drama exam. Set text: Blood Brothers The lesson provides details on the 20 mark question, a table for students to fill in as a prep task, before then answering the 20 mark question.

Detailed lessons on the NEW Section C text of the Eduqas Drama A level - The Book of Dust - La Belle Sauvage adapted by Bryony Lavery. This 110-Slide Powerpoint includes: Section 1 (slides 1-13): Information on the original production Brief synopsis Structure, genre and style Important themes Section 2 (slides 14-24): Key Lighting vocabulary Important things to think about/ideas for designing lighting Scaffolded paragraph structures for writing about lighting Detailed exemplar paragraph on an extract using this structure Section 3 (slides 25-33) Key sound vocabulary Important things to think about/ideas for designing sound Scaffolded paragraph structures for writing about sound Two detailed exemplar paragraphs on two different extracts using this structure. Section 4 (slides 34-49) Introduction to the live theatre evaluation element (10 marks in section C) Scaffolded paragraph structure for writing the live theatre evaluation section. Detailed exemplar paragraph on evaluating a live theatre production using this structure. Guidance on annotating a cue sheet Exemplar completed cue sheet **Guided example of a full answer, answering a **Sound and Lighting exam style question including: Scaffolded paragraph structure for writing an introduction Detailed exemplar introduction using this structure Scaffolded paragraph structure for the main body of essay. Detailed exemplar answer broken into three highly detailed paragraphs - one for each section of the attached extract. Section 5 (slides 50-72) Important things to consider for staging and set design Information on the key staging types Introduction to ground plans Design features and symbols for drawing ground plans Step-by-step guide to drawing a ground plan Information on the original production’s use of the stage floor and other things to consider Information on composite sets including benefits and pitfalls. Exam question on staging and set design within an extract including: Scaffolded paragraph structure for writing an introduction Detailed exemplar introduction using this structure Scaffolded paragraph structure for the main body of essay. Detailed exemplar paragraph using this structure. Opportunity for students to write their own paragraph using this structure with ideas given to help them. Section 6 (slides 73-85) Appropriate terminology for parts of the stage Things to consider as a director Guidance on annotating an extract for movement and positioning Exam question on movement and positioning within an extract including: Scaffolded paragraph structure for writing an introduction Detailed exemplar introduction using this structure Scaffolded paragraph structure for the main body of essay. Detailed exemplar paragraph using this structure Opportunity for students to write their own paragraph using this structure with sentence starters. Section 7 (slides 86-110) Important thin

Drama (and English) quiz and answers for KS3 or KS4 Students. Versatile editable resource for either an Online virtual lesson or a more traditional classroom based lesson. The topic of the quiz is Everything Drama! This Drama quiz includes a wide variety of different rounds including: matching rounds, photo rounds, linking rounds , number round, multiple choice round , designing round, word search, anagrams and much more… Contents of Drama Quiz ☞ 1 x Professionally Designed PowerPoint Quiz ( Containing 10 Different Rounds and over 50+ Questions) ☞1 x Set of certificates for winning students (Gold, Silver and Bronze) ☞ 1 x Full set of Answers (Animated at the end of the Quiz) ☞ 1 x Student Answer Sheets they can fill in during the quiz ☞ 1 x FULLY DIGITAL STUDENT ANSWER SHEET ☞ Quiz can be done as an individual task or in small teams. ✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰✰ You may want to check out some of our highly rated English resources: ENGLISH ESCAPE ROOM Shakespeare 24 Task Cards A Christmas Carol 24 Task Cards English End of Term Bundle Careers in English Quiz Lesson GCSE English Language Escape Room Why is reading Important Assembly

This information pack includes all the key terminology required to succeed in GCSE Drama when discussing lighting for a set text. Types of lighting, description, use, control, effects, direction, shadowing. It includes language to use when writing about lighting such as fade, wash, flood, snap etc… It includes descriptions of how it can be used to create mood and atmosphere. Finally using the play ‘An Inspector calls’ is breaks down different lighting states and symbolism for each scene. Ending with natural lighting descriptions used in the play. STUDENT worksheet included of 5 tasks which could be completed in 60-120 minutes, so after the main resource is taught, students can complete the 5 tasks to reinforce learning. Used alongside teacher examples, this could take 3 lessons.

A generic ‘Drama’ word search for use as a filler or consolidation of key terms. Words: ACTOR AUDIENCE BACKSTAGE COMEDY COSTUME DIRECTOR LIGHTS MUSICAL PROPS SCENARY SHAKESPEARE STAGE TEXT THEATRE TRAGEDY WNGS

Fun wordsearch which encourages pupils to find Drama-related vocabulary. Perfect for a cover lesson!

This document provides simple and accessible drama-style activities aimed at non-drama teachers, and for use in the non-drama classroom. It offers practical and engaging ideas that put students at the centre of their own learning. It is useful for science, maths, humanities, and other arts subject areas. The document also offers an introduction to the value of drama-style activities across the board. The activities also provide some basic or introductory activities for drama teachers, especially in primary or middle school classrooms in which drama teachers collaborate with home room and other subject teachers.

To allow students to consider the skills required at different stages during the rehearsal or development process and to encourage them to keep notes which will help them answer the describe, explain and analyse sections of Question in section A of the AQA written examination.