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Drama There is drama to be found all around us and in everything we do. Children are natural actors, and drama helps to unleash their creativity and build up their confidence.    
Drama There is drama to be found all around us and in everything we do. Children are natural actors, and drama helps to unleash their creativity and build up their confidence.  
Drama There is drama to be found all around us and in everything we do. Children are natural actors, and drama helps to unleash their creativity and build up their confidence.  
Drama There is drama to be found all around us and in everything we do. Children are natural actors, and drama helps to unleash their creativity and build up their confidence.  

Drama

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

Oscar Wilde


Key Stage 4 Curriculum - GCSE Drama

Drama is a very successful options subject at Teign School. Students follow the Edexcel GCSE Drama specification (2DR01) and are taught over three 50 minute lessons.

Course Details Overview/Option Sheet

 

Drama can only be fully understood through practical experience so the focus of GCSE Drama is on the skills needed for performance and production. Students also need to explore material that has the potential for dramatic development whether created from devised work or through the interpretation of a play text.

 

The assessment requirements expect students to understand and use specialist vocabulary appropriately. All of the following terms are covered in the programme of study before assessments are carried out. We recommend that GCSE Drama students regularly revise these terms so their use becomes second nature.

 

Past GCSE Results

2007 A* - C 81% A* - G 100%

2008 A* - C 80% A* - G 100%

2009 A* - C 88% A* - G 100%

2010 A* - C 82% A* - G 100%

Forms of Stimuli
A stimulus is the name we give to anything that can inspire creativity and has dramatic potential.

• Examples of Stimuli Click Here

Explorative Strategies
Explorative strategies enable us to deepen our understanding of ideas, characters and dramatic significance.

• Still Image Click Here
• Thought-tracking Click Here
• Narrating Click Here
• Hot-seating Click Here
• Role-play Click Here
• Cross-cutting Click Here
• Forum-theatre Click Here

The Drama Medium
The drama medium introduces design forms and how design can support communication of meaning in drama. It also introduces students to the physical nature of drama and essential acting techniques.

• Costume, Masks and Make-up Click Here
• Sound and Music Click Here
• Lighting Click Here
• Space and Levels Click Here
• Set and props Click Here
• Movement, Mime and Music Click Here
• Voice and Spoken Language Click Here

Elements of Drama
These introduce students to the grammar of drama. They focus on structure, form and methods of dramatic communication.

• Action/Plot/Content & Dramatic Form Click Here
• Climax/Anti-Climax & Contrasts Click Here
• Characterisation & Dramatic Conventions Click Here
• Symbols Click Here

 

 

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PROM fever reached an all-time high as two Teign School pupils landed at their end of year celebration on Torquay seafront by helicopter. Lee Penfold, from Meadowcroft Drive, Kingsteignton, and school friend Bradley Edwards from Chudleigh, flew from Bovey Tracey to Torquay recreation ground for Teign School's prom at the Grand Hotel. The duo were given permission by Torbay Council to land the helicopter near the historic Torre Abbey. Royalty, police, Devon Air Ambulance and a only few individuals have been allowed to land there previously.

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