
Year 7 Drama Assessment Booklet – The Complete Teaching Resource
Streamline your Year 7 Drama curriculum with this all-in-one assessment and planning booklet. Designed for teachers, it provides a clear, structured framework to guide students through creating, performing, and reflecting on dramatic work.
Why Teachers Love It:
Comprehensive Planning Sheets: Help students organize characters, plots, and up to six scenes per unit, making lesson planning seamless.
Skill Development Checklists: Track and develop key drama skills including posture, gesture, movement, voice, projection, and expression.
Self-Reflection & Feedback Templates: Encourage students to reflect on strengths, identify areas for improvement, and respond to constructive feedback.
Assessment Grids: Easy-to-use performance rubrics for Making, Performing, and Responding, helping you assess progress efficiently.
Unit-Based Structure: Includes Intro to Drama, Pantomime, Page to Stage, Greek Myths, The Lion King, and Room 13, covering a variety of dramatic styles.
Year-Long Tracking: Monitor student progress across all units and set targets for Year 8.
This booklet saves teachers time while supporting student growth, creativity, and confidence in drama. Perfect for class use, assessments, or structured performance projects.
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Year 7,8&9 Drama & Performing Arts Assessment Bundle
Year 7–9 Drama & Performing Arts Assessment Bundle – Complete Teaching Resources Save time and streamline your secondary performing arts curriculum with this comprehensive bundle of assessment and planning booklets for Years 7, 8, and 9. Designed specifically for teachers, this all-in-one resource provides structured frameworks to guide students through creating, performing, and reflecting on dramatic work across multiple styles and units. Why Teachers Love It: Complete Curriculum Coverage: Includes Year 7, Year 8, and Year 9 booklets, covering a wide range of topics such as Stage Combat, Musical Theatre, Comedy, Shakespeare, Bullying, Harry Potter, Frantic Assembly, Arbeit Macht Frei, Production Arts, Hamilton, and Responding to a Brief. Structured Planning Sheets: Each unit includes detailed planning pages for characters, plots, and up to six scenes, making lesson planning seamless. Skill Development Checklists: Track and develop essential drama skills including posture, gesture, movement, voice, projection, and expression. Self-Reflection & Feedback Templates: Encourage students to evaluate their own performances, identify strengths, and set targets for improvement. Assessment Grids & Rubrics: Easy-to-use performance rubrics for Making, Performing, and Responding, enabling consistent, efficient assessment. Unit-Based & Year-Long Tracking: Monitor student progress across all units and years, and set targets for the next stage of learning. Perfect For: Classwork, structured performance projects, and end-of-unit assessments Differentiated instruction and tracking student growth over multiple years Supporting creativity, confidence, and technical skill development in drama and performing arts This bundle saves teachers time while providing a clear, practical framework to support student learning and achievement across Years 7–9.
Year 7 Drama Full-Year Scheme of Work | 6 Units | 42 Lessons | KS3 / Lower Secondary
Year 7 Drama Full-Year Scheme of Work | 6 Units | 42 Lessons | KS3 / Lower Secondary This full-year curriculum for Year 7 provides 42 ready-to-teach lessons (6 schemes, each 7 one-hour lessons) designed to build performance skills, creativity, confidence, and ensemble work across the academic year. Each scheme combines practical drama techniques, storytelling, and character development, ensuring progressive learning and student engagement. Included Schemes: Intro to Drama – Introduces students to the fundamentals of drama, including voice, movement, improvisation, characterisation, and storytelling. Focus on confidence, ensemble work, and creative expression. Pantomime – Students explore exaggerated performance, stock characters (Hero, Villain, Dame, Comic Sidekick), breaking the fourth wall, and audience interaction. Includes scripted scenes, improvisation, and mash-up performances. Page to Stage – Focus on taking a written story, script, or poem and transforming it into a dramatic performance. Students develop skills in interpretation, characterisation, movement, and staging. Greek Myths/Legends – Explore myths like Perseus and Medusa, Theseus and the Minotaur, Pandora’s Box, and Jason and the Golden Fleece. Techniques include tableaux, thought-tracking, narration, choral speech, and physical theatre. Students devise and perform their own myth-inspired scenes. The Lion King – Engage with the musical through stylised animal movement, vocalisation, ensemble work, and symbolic design. Students create thematic tableaux, rehearsed scenes, and a final devised performance using headbands and music. Room 13 – Build suspense and mystery using hot-seating, mime, tableaux, scripted and devised work. Focus on characterisation, physicality, and dramatic tension, culminating in a final devised performance resolving the Room 13 mystery. Key Features: 42 ready-to-teach lessons with clear objectives, lesson structures, and practical activities All worksheets and scripts included for every lesson, ready to print or use digitally Assessment booklet included for tracking student progress and final performance evaluation Progressive skill development: movement, voice, ensemble, characterisation, narrative, and improvisation Assessment opportunities: peer and teacher feedback, self-reflection, devised performances Differentiation strategies to support all learners and encourage challenge Cross-curricular links: English, History, and Music Why Teachers Love This Curriculum: Complete full-year coverage for Year 7, saving planning time Flexible and adaptable for mixed-ability groups and class sizes Builds confidence, creativity, and practical performance skills Fully aligned with KS3 Drama objectives and National Curriculum expectations All resources ready for immediate use: lessons, worksheets, scripts, and assessment booklet With this scheme, Year 7 students will develop a wide range of drama techniques, styles, and performance challenges, progressing from fundamental skills in Autumn to creative devised work by Summer.
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