The Creative Arts department begins from the premise that we are all artists.

We use our curriculum time to allow

students to tap into their own creativity. Our lessons help our students to develop into life-long creators and
consumers of culture.

Drama gives young people an opportunity to build their empathy, confidence and interpersonal skills. It develops
creative minds and outside-the-box thinking. Drama students are problem-solvers and engage with the world
positively and enthusiastically. Drama as a subject gives glimpses into other lives and other times, other places and
other experiences. The core skills of Drama are directly transferable into the real world and are much prized in
industry and business as well as in creative employment arenas. Drama gives young people the skills with which to
decode and understand the world around them and to navigate their journey into and through adulthood.
TLS Drama Curriculum
Component 3 Completing Component 2 of Completing Component 1
revision. the GCSE and preparing for of the GCSE.
-Revise set text. Component 3. -Practitioner recapitulation
-Prepare play -Choose, prepare, learn and and preparatory work with
This is the place
where the evaluation. rehearse scripts. stimuli.
overarching unit
topics and themes -Revise set text and review play -Devise and rehearse.
are outlined.

Practitioners and Introduction to Introduction to Introduction to Component

Year 10
Scripts -Konstantin Component 1 – devising. Component 3
-Recapitulation of the 2 - working with scripts.
Stanislavski – theory - set text and play
theories and practice of -Script preparation and
and practice review.
Bertolt Brecht. learning.
-Applying - Set text study
-Dramatic devices, -Script performance
Stanislavski’s theories - Play view and review
structure and character. skills.
to Mugged
Black
Lives
Matter -
Michael
Ferreira’s
story Justice and Social Year 9 Working with Scripts Developing Themes and
-Latasha Issues -Decoding dialogue and Issues
Harlins’s -Perspective and points of stage directions -The story of Brenda Spencer
story view in crime and justice. - -Creating characters; – interpreting through Drama
Attitudes to disability - Devising and rehearsal -Using Drama to explore
Craig and Bentley skills teenage pregnancy Practitioners/
Genres
-Shakespeare in
performance
through King
Lear
-Bertolt Brecht –
Working with Scripts theory and

Year 8
Application of Drama Skills
Year 7

Introduction to Drama Skills

-Refining key skills; Devising -Decoding dialogue and practice
-Group working; Confidence-building.
Drama. stage directions.
-Key skills – Freeze Frame, Mime,
-Presentation and performance -Creating characters;
Improvisation, Props
skills. Devising and rehearsal skills

Wisdom | Courage | Leadership