142·Drama · GCSE
Year 10 Drama
Scheme of Work
GCSE Drama Scheme of Work — Year 10 (PDF)
Seventy-three pages, board-neutral by construction: every unit is mapped to the DfE subject content for GCSE drama and to Ofqual's four assessment objectives, identical on every board because the regulator sets them. Six units, thirty-one phases, six purpose-drawn diagrams, eight back-matter tables. Two things are planned a year before the assessment needs them: the devising log, which carries three quarters of the devising marks and is written during rehearsal from unit 3b, and the rule that a student cannot perform a monologue in both assessed pieces — a casting decision made a year ahead.
- 1aThe Performer's Instrument: Voice, Body and the Deliberate Choice
- 1bSpace, Staging and the Audience: Where the Watcher Sits Changes Everything
- 2aReading a Text as a Score: Genre, Structure, Character and Stage Directions
- 2bContext and Convention: Why a Play Was Made That Way, and What Practitioners Are For
- 3aDesign as a Language: Set, Costume, Lighting and Sound as Things That Mean
- 3bThe First Devising Cycle: A Whole Piece, and the Log That Carries Three Quarters of It
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time, so a teacher who learns the shape once knows all six. Phases rather than single lessons, because departments do not agree on how much time GCSE drama gets — the planning assumption is stated rather than hidden.
Every lesson is tagged making, performing or responding, which are not categories invented here: they are the Department's own, from the sentence that opens the subject content's knowledge list. The balance table is therefore a count rather than a claim, and a scheme that is two thirds rehearsal shows up as one.
Board-neutral is a construction rather than a disclaimer, and in this subject it currently matters more than usual. Cambridge OCR is withdrawing GCSE Drama — its own specification gives a final first teach date of September 2026 and a final assessment in Summer 2028. WJEC Eduqas states its qualification is not available to maintained schools in Wales. What does not move is the statutory floor, and that is what this book is built on. Where boards genuinely differ, the page says so and names the difference rather than averaging four specifications into a fifth that nobody sets.
Six printable diagnostics, exemplar student work with the error beside the repair in every unit, and a seventeen-strand progression map that runs across both years.
- Written to GCSE subject content: drama (DfE, DFE-00039-2015) and Ofqual's assessment objectives
- Intended for heads of drama, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent 73 pages · 18 sections
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