142·Drama · Key Stage 3
Year 7
Drama
Scheme of Work
Year 7 Drama Scheme of Work — KS3 PDF
Six half-termly units across one academic year, written backwards from what Year 8 assumes on entry. The year runs silent, then physical, then vocal, then somebody else's words, then their own words, then an audience — two units in which nobody has to speak, which is the load-bearing decision of the year and the single best thing you can do for a class arriving from twelve different primary schools.
Everything else this site has for Drama: Drama teaching resources
- 1aEnsemble, Space and the Still Image
- 1bPhysical Storytelling: Mime, Movement and Narration
- 2aVoice, Body and Character
- 2bOff the Page: Working with a Script
- 3aDevising from a Stimulus
- 3bPerforming to an Audience, and Saying Why
One purchase covers the school that buys it. Print it, copy it, hand it round your department. Not for passing to other schools or uploading anywhere.
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Lessons are one row each rather than a page each — enough to teach from, not so much that it cannot be maintained across a department.
Drama has no programme of study at key stage 3. It is statutory, but only inside English, and exactly one sentence in the whole national curriculum describes drama practice at this key stage. This book quotes that sentence, maps every unit to it honestly, and then says plainly that everything else is a curriculum design decision. The Curriculum and Assessment Review found that the absence is precisely why school drama curricula vary so much — and a scheme that pretends the requirement exists is no use to the head of department who has to defend theirs.
Six lessons are written out in full, one per unit — timings, what the teacher actually says, and what to do when it goes wrong — so that a non-specialist can teach a drama lesson well at the first attempt. With a warm-up bank indexed by purpose, a seventy-five-term glossary, and three original scripts printed at the back that the school may photocopy without limit.
- Written to The statutory key stage 3 English programme of study (DfE, 2014) — drama has no programme of study of its own
- Intended for heads of drama, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it, specialist or not
- Extent 66 pages · 26 sections
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