Department staff

• Holly Mazur - Teacher in charge od Drama: h.mazur@fulhamboysschool.org.uk
• Rosie Thomas - Drama Teacher

Year 7 curriculum

Unit 1: Introduction to Drama

• The core ingredients for communicating meaning

• Collaborative skills
• Stage essentials

Unit 2: Darkwood Manor

• Building tension
• Creating character
• Collaborative skills

Unit 3: Private Peaceful

• Portraying genuine emotion
• Working with a script
• Devising a scene

Unit 4: Mime

• Non-verbal communication
• Physicality

Unit 5: History of theatre

• Genre
• Devising

How the boys will be assessed in Year 7:

• Practical performance
• Self and peer evaluation (written)

Year 8 curriculum

Unit 1: Twisted Tales

• Satire
• Devising from a stimulus
• Stage space and proxemics

Unit 2: Mario, King of the Mafia

• Status
• Traverse staging
• Tension

Unit 3: Animal Farm

• Transformation scale
• Physical theatre

Unit 4: Genres

• Genres of theatre
• Devising

How the boys will be assessed in Year 8: 

• Practical performance
• Self and peer evaluation (written)

Year 9 curriculum

Unit 1: Bouncers

• Working from a script
• Stylised acting

Unit 2: Brechtian Theatre

• Devising
• Brechtian technique

Unit 3: English Spoken Language - Preparation for English GCSE

• Public speaking
• Techniques for presentation

How the boys will be assessed in Year 9: 

• Practical performance
• Self and peer evaluation (written)

GCSE

• Exam Board: Edexcel
• Written Components: 70%
• Practical Components: 30%

Year 10 curriculum

Introduction to GCSE

• Performance from a text
• Key devising skills

Component 1

• Devising
• Coursework

Introduction to Component 3

• Study of a text

How the boys will be assessed in Year 10:

• Component 1: Devised performance (10%)
• Component 1: Coursework (30%)

Year 11 curriculum

Component 2 

• Performance from a script

Continuation of Component 3

• Study of a text

How the boys will be assessed in Year 11:

• Component 2: Performance from a text (20%)
• Component 3: Written examination (40%)

Year 12 curriculum

 

Introduction to A Level

• Performance from a text
• Key devising skills
• Study of a practitioner

 

Component 1 

• Devising
• Coursework

 

Component 2

• Performance

 

Component 3

• Study of a text

How the boys will be assessed in Year 12:

• Mock exam for each component

 

KS5 courses on offer: 

 

A Level  The Drama  A Level course for Edexcel splits the topics into 2 years worth of work. The course investigates the role of the actor, director and designer in significantly more depth than at GCSE. The class sizes will be small to allow your son to get the best teaching environment for him and his peers to succeed.    This course is suitable for all who have studied Drama GCSE and take an interest in performing and interpreting text. The course looks at social and political issues, immersive and interactive theatre methods, performing scripts and devising from a stimulus.   Texts studied at A level include; 1984, Woyzeck and Machinal.

 

A - Level Drama

Year 12 and Year 13 curriculum

 

1. From Page to Stage - Performer and Designer Interpretations

• Expressionist theatre - its origins and style
• Feminism in 1920s America
• ‘Machinal’ by Sophie Treadwell - how to stage as a performer and designer.

2. Devising from a stimulus

• Study of Punchdrunk Theatre Company - attend an immersive theatre performance
• Exploration of 1984 - looking at how to portray the themes of the book on stage.
• Devise an immersive performance for an audience in response to 1984 in a Punchdrunk style.

3. Interpretation and Modernisation of a text

• Study Woyzeck 
• Explore Brechtian techniques
• Investigate how to interpret Woyzeck for a modern audience.

4. Evaluation of a live performance

Texts

Woyzeck by George Buchanan

Machinal by Sophie Treadwell

1984 by George Orwell

5. How the boys will be assessed in Year 12 

Boys will sit 2 internal Mock A Level examinations - the first one in January and the second one in June at the end of Year 12 to assess their progress. They will also perform their devised piece at the end of Year 12 to a public audience.

 

A level Drama
	What’s assessed?
Component 1: Devising from a stimulus Coursework - 20% Devised piece - 10%	Devised performance in the style of a practitioner Ability to evaluate and analyse rehearsal process Performance responds to a modern text Characterisation
Component 2: Page to Stage Performance - 20%	A monologue from one text A group performance from a different text Characterisation
Component 3:  Written exam Live Review - 10% Interpretation of text - 20% Modernisation of text - 20%	Ability to analyse and evaluate a live performance Interpretation of a text from the perspective of an actor and designer Modernisation of a text through the lens of a director