Course Description:
Stage 1 Drama students engage in learning as authentic dramatic artists and work collaboratively to form a shared vision to achieve individual and shared outcomes. Students explore and respond to ideas, processes and viewpoints from a range of drama which may include texts, innovators, styles and professional productions. Students develop their understanding of drama, their thinking as artists and their skills as practitioners in dramatic roles.
Assessment:
Assessment Type 1: Performance 40%
In Performance, students work collaboratively through the framework of the Company and Performance area of study to conceive, explore, develop, produce, refine and perform a dramatic work or product. Each student presents evidence of their learning including their understanding, creativity, analysis, evaluation and skills development in the form of a presentation or written document.
Assessment Type 2: Responding to Drama 30%
Students will demonstrate their understanding, analysis and evaluation of professionally created drama productions and/or experiences in an oral, multimodal or written response. They analyse and evaluate the contribution of practitioners to the artistic and cultural value of the work and draw links with the development of their own practice as authentic dramatic artists.
Assessment Type 3: Creative Synthesis 30%
Students apply the dramatic process to a published dramatic text or self-devised piece to create a concept for a hypothetical or actual dramatic product. In the creation of their product students also apply technology imaginatively and innovatively and take creative risks.
Assumed Knowledge: There are no formal prerequisites to Stage 1 Drama, however, prior study of Drama in Years 7-10 will be advantageous.
