GCSE DRAMA
Overview
The Drama department is pleased to be working alongside AQA and the new specification. The course is exciting, creative and challenging. There is an excellent balance between controlled assessment and the written examination.
The course gives candidates the best opportunity to succeed. The practical options we offer include: Devised Thematic Work, Acting, Lighting, Sound, make-up and costume. The written examination is one hour and thirty minutes long and comprises of three sections: A written analysis of practical work completed during the course, the study and performance of a scripted play and the study of a live theatre production seen. The play we will be studying is Dennis Potter's 'Blue Remembered Hills'. During the two year course our schemes of work comprise of:
Year 9
Story Telling 3 (Subtext)
Reportage
The Grimm's Tales
GCSE devised work on the set text Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter.
Romeo and Juliet
Physical Theatre
Year 10
The Dating Agency monologue
An introduction to Devised Thematic work
Exciting Devised work part 1 & 2
Aberfan - The Day the Silence Came (Devised Thematic)
Racism - Scheme based work on this theme.
A brief study of Blue Remembered Hills.
Year 11
Blue Remembered Hills by Dennis Potter - set text for written examination.
Ordinary People and Tragedy (Devised Thematic) and various scripts (Acting).
