—·GCSE · Drama

GCSE Drama, sequenced

Year 10 · Year 11 · 11 units in all

Six half-termly units an academic year — five in Year 11, where study leave takes the last one — set out as one sequence table rather than a page per lesson. Every unit maps to the statutory content. The GCSE books run to around sixty pages each, and add worked examples of student error, diagrams drawn for the book, and printable diagnostics. Most departments just call it a SOW.

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GCSE, Year 10 and Year 11

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Year 10 Drama Scheme of Work

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.

1a The Performer's Instrument: Voice, Body and the Deliberate Choice
1b Space, Staging and the Audience: Where the Watcher Sits Changes Everything
2a Reading a Text as a Score: Genre, Structure, Character and Stage Directions
2b Context and Convention: Why a Play Was Made That Way, and What Practitioners Are For
3a Design as a Language: Set, Costume, Lighting and Sound as Things That Mean
3b The First Devising Cycle: A Whole Piece, and the Log That Carries Three Quarters of It

GCSE subject content: drama (DfE, DFE-00039-2015) and Ofqual's assessment objectives · 73 pages, 18 sections · For heads of drama, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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Year 11 Drama Scheme of Work

Sixty-three pages completing the course. Five units rather than six, because the examination series is the summer term and two components must be moderated before it — a scheme that plans six half-terms of Year 11 teaching is planning a year that does not exist. The devised cycle runs nine weeks and finishes in November; the text-based performance finishes in February, so the written paper gets the spring it needs. Twenty-four phases, five purpose-drawn diagrams and thirteen back-matter tables, including a readiness tracker whose descriptors describe what a student does rather than what level they are at.

4a The Assessed Devising Cycle: The Log Is the Component
4b Live Theatre: Watching as a Theatre Maker Rather Than as an Audience
5a Texts in Practice: Two Extracts, and Rehearsal as Diagnosis
5b The Written Paper: Decoding the Question, and Writing About Theatre Not in the Room
6a Final Revision: Retrieval, Timing, and the Things That Decay

GCSE subject content: drama (DfE, DFE-00039-2015) and Ofqual's assessment objectives · 63 pages, 20 sections · For heads of drama, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it

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GCSE Drama set

Year 10, Year 11 — the whole key stage, sequenced as one curriculum rather than two separate years.

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