This scheme of work is about the gorgeous story of A Monster Calls. The story is about Connor’s struggle with digesting and coming to terms with his mother’s cancer diagnosis and how he confides in the Monster to understand and cope with his feelings. Throughout this scheme, students build their understanding of the script through applying the style of physical theatre. In the scheme they will be using lifts, movement, and characterisation to create meaning for the audience. The aim of this is to broaden the KS3 curriculum, exposing students to current playwrights in the LGBTQ+ community, Patrick Ness, whilst also implicitly building the working combination of putting on a production in a particular style.

My Year 9’s absolutely loved this scheme of work. Students are assessed by producing a film trailer (of any style they wish) for a theatre text they choose. These texts can be changed to suit your cohort of students. Each group became their own theatre company and had to have different roles that they were responsible for e.g. director/ camera operator/ treasurer/ actors etc. We had lots of fun generating the ‘National Lottery Funding’ where they can ‘win funding’ for their theatre co. I did a lot of teacher in role where I used a microphone and a sparkly jacket to host the games. Students then spent their ‘budget’ on props and costume in an auction (again teacher in role) for their production. After this students planned their films, conducted rehearsals and then created their films around site. They absolutely loved doing this and it created some excellent independence. From this, students then had to edit and layer their films and we then held a film premier with popcorn - they absolutely loved this scheme of work. They particularly enjoyed learning about the skills in acting for film, considering target audience, and having the independence to create something of their own. We had an award ceremony for the films and this was great for motivating students. This scheme is planned to cover 2 terms of Year 9 lessons - Year 9s have 2 lessons of drama over a fortnight - we teach 100 minute lessons.

This quiz is designed for a double lesson or 100 minute lesson, covering all bases for the written GCSE WJEC Eduqas paper. On the tables of the groups I would place crisps and apple juice to give more of a ‘Pub Quiz’ feel, rather than just a test. My students loved this idea and preferred it a lot more that just a typical quiz.

Scheme of 5 x 100 minute lessons (if you have 50 minute lessons, this could split across 10-12 lessons). KS3 drama scheme of work focused on Theatrical Style and Dramatic Form including the following styles: Melodrama, Pantomime, Butoh and Clowning. The 5th lesson is an assessment preparation lesson where students pick their favourite style and perform according to an assessment brief and a title given to all styles. All can be adapted to suit your needs.

A series of lessons studying the techniques of Devising theatre company, The Paper Birds. These 6 workshops individually explore several different techniques over a few lessons, allowing students to explore in the style thoroughly, using their techniques from a range of their different performances. Techniques such as: Puppetry Invisible Forces Flocking Movement motifs (inspired by pictures) Replacement emotions (with movement) Monologue writing And more

This lesson aims to address the problem of students not linking an explicit contextual factor into paragraph writing. I follow the WJEC Eduqas exam board for drama but this could also be used in English too. This lesson was produced with the purpose of adopting the principles of WALKTHRUs (Tom Sherrigton and Oliver Caviglioli) for good teaching. This structure is aimed at KS4 students. It contains lots of resources and principles that I use as well as a Socrative quiz (you can delete as appropriate).

This full lesson teaches A level students the specific features of Expressionism with the aim to focus this on Machinal by Sophie Treadwell. However I have made this lesson so that you can adapt it to suit your text. It looks at the influences of art onto different elements of theatre such as lighting, set and performers. This aims to cater for the Edexcel Drama and Theatre studies set text (Section B) in the written A level exam. It can also be used as a revision resource/ independent work.

A powerpoint filled with 15 different drama games - full instructions for each game is included In this powerpoint there are games that are ‘classics’ vs new games that are great to explore and play. Some have been or can be adapted easily to suit social distancing. This is a great resource for end of year drama lessons! Games include: -Graveyard -Penguin Mafia Night at the Museum Evolution Keeper of the Keys Zip, Zap Boing Buzzy Bee’s Fruit Salad Who moved first 11’s Heads or Tails Wink Murder Why are you late? Everyone can act

This is a combination of 2 lessons focused on the practitioner of Brecht. Lesson 1 explores 3 practical techniques: 3rd Person Narration, Direct Address and Gestus. The students then will be at home exploring this with a short section of script where they have to rehearse this to perform over zoom/ teams/ live virtual platform. Additionally, there is another lesson filled with independent tasks to explore with a focus on devising. This includes the stimuli from WJEC Eduqas 2022 devised Component 1 criteria. The students then have to apply what they have learned, to an idea they have. There is also an array of resources for them to explore should they wish to expand their knowledge. This is designed to be a distanced learning/ covid isolation/ home learning lesson which allows for practical work to continue. I have lots of resources on my dashboard about social distancing/ isolation in drama. I also have a bundle of 4 lessons to introduce all 4 stimuli from the WJEC Eduqas 2022 exam board.

This lesson was designed with last years devised material (Can easily be adapted) and has several different tasks for students to complete over a few lessons. They need to use research skills to find out about Brecht and his style of theatre. This is designed for students to fill out the tasks on the powerpoint and to send the file back to you. However this can be used as a live lesson too! I have lots of socially distanced lessons and covid work on my page so please take a look.

This lesson is a series of 1 of 4 (please see other lessons - I offer a bundle) This explores the exam stimuli for 2022 WJEC Eduqas (Current Year 10 students for devised) and creates a platform of ideas to spring off of for students. It is designed for a live lesson but can easily be adapted to suit a practical lesson too. It offers an independent task for students to complete in exploration of the stimuli - promoting independent learning and ideas. I have lots of home learning resources on my page, please take a look.

This lesson is a series of 1 of 4 (please see other lessons - I offer a bundle) This explores the exam stimuli for 2022 WJEC Eduqas (Current Year 10 students for devised) and creates a platform of ideas to spring off of for students. It is designed for a live lesson but can easily be adapted to suit a practical lesson too. It offers an independent task for students to complete in exploration of the stimuli - promoting independent learning and ideas.

This lesson is a home learning/ live lesson for devised work with the new stimuli for WJEC Eduqas stimuli for 2022. The lesson is very easily adaptable and involves students doing a lot of discussion, but can develop this into research tasks for their own individual focuses. I have lots of home learning and socially distanced lesson plans

This was a live lesson that I completed with my GCSE students who are looking at devised theatre with the new stimuli from WJEC eduqas exam board. The tasks are suitable for home learning independently or can be taught in a live lesson. This is an easily adaptable lesson but the outcome is that students are exposed to the 1st of 4 stimuli from the 2021-2022 stimul from WJEC Eduqas drama. This resource is easily adaptable to suit your style of teaching. I have a lot of home learning and socially distant resources on my page for all secondary school years. I have resources on all 4 stimuli and have created a bundle

This resource is a lesson focused on writing an introduction to a theatre review. Students have to find out information of a particular production (example is Peter Pan in lesson) based on questions. They then have to complete other tasks, resulting in them writing their own introduction. Great for developing literacy skills in lockdown. It also includes voice instructions to aid access for those who struggle with reading. Easily adaptable for Year 8 or 9 I have lots of home learning resources on my page.

This is part of a series of lessons for technical isolation work. Please see my other resources. This lesson will require students to have access to Youtube. They will learn about the different types of sounds in sound design. Then they will pick a scenario that they are to create the sound for. They then write a paragraph at the end of the power point. There is a voice recording to guide the student through the paragraph writing.

This lesson is a costume lesson that allows students to independently work from home, focusing on what to include in a description for a written paragraph. There are voice recordings on the slides to talk through what the students need to know for each slide. This is great to set for a class if they have to isolate.

This resources is a booklet with several different tasks in that is left open to the topic that you are studying. This can be used in Drama/ English (if studying plays or literature). If students are currently off school and are isolating, this can be set over 2 lessons where they complete every single task to do with a given topic (chosen by the teacher). They can complete this electronically or by printing and completing by hand. It is also my ‘go - to’ for cover work if I’ve not got anything up my sleeve. I have lots of socially distanced workshops and lessons if you would care to browse.

This technique is a simple but effective string of movements to establish relationships between characters in the passing of time. It can be done with individuals maintaining social distancing whilst effectively exploring an interesting concept. Frantic used this in their production of Tiny Dynamite. This is ideally for A level students doing devised work, but it can be tailored to GCSE students too. I have loads of socially distanced lessons if you’re doing practical work with practitioners/ Machinal.