16·Drama · KS3 to A Level
The Theatre Maker’s Craft,
Confident Schools
One book for the whole department — the head of drama defending curriculum time and the teacher whose Year 9 group has run the same scene four times and made it no better. What theatrical thinking actually is, how it is built from Year 7 to Year 13, and what separates a student who can perform from one who can make, interpret and evaluate theatre on purpose.
- 1Intention
- 2Craft
- 3Reading
- 4Composition
- 5Rehearsal
- 6Judgement
Drama is the subject most often defended by its by-products. Confidence, teamwork and communication are real, and none of them is the reason it is on a timetable. Thirty per cent of the GCSE is knowledge, assessed in writing, and between half and three fifths of the marks on every specification are awarded for something a student writes.
This booklet is written for the whole department at once. A head of drama can read it as a curriculum and quality-assurance document; a teacher can open it at the page they need on a Tuesday. The Department for Education’s subject content, Ofqual’s conditions and all eight current specifications were read from the documents themselves rather than from summaries, and where the boards genuinely differ — one splits its practical marks differently, two set the devising stimulus and two do not, one alone permits a recorded portfolio — the difference is stated rather than blended.
- Written to All four GCSE and all four A Level drama specifications, read in full
- Intended for department CPD, planning and curriculum review
- Extent 71 pages · 68 sections
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—·Contents
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