KS3 Levels
How to be excellent in Drama
Working with other people in a group
- Listen to other people
- Put forward your ideas
- Cooperate with others
- Help to make the Drama work well
Creating a role
- Think about the way the character would move
- Consider how she/he might be feeling
- Choose the words she/he says carefully
- Decide how she/he responds to other characters
Using Space and Movement
- Make your movements appropriate to the task
- Think about how you use the area you are in
- Remember to use levels where necessary
- Create the message through the movement
Finding solutions
- Solve problems by using a different technique
- Talk positively in your group about any difficulty
- Use various Drama forms
- Work as a team
Presenting your work to others
- Be dynamic and energetic in performance
- Concentrate throughout the presentation
- Use your voice and the space effectively
- Be aware of your audience
Discussing the Drama Work
- Make positive and constructive comments
- Observe the use of Drama Forms
- Consider how the meaning is made clear
- Comment on how effectively the piece worked
Writing and responding to Drama work
- Present your work well
- Illustrate where appropriate
- Reflect on the issues
- In role writing should be true to the character
Key Stage 3 Skills - Year 7
By the end of Year 7 students should:
Group Work: Be able to
- Work in mixed sex and mixed ability groups
- Work co-operatively with others
- Listen attentively
Improvisation: Recognise and respond to
- Spontaneous
- Prepared
- Whole class
- T.I.R
Role-play: Create and sustain appropriate roles using
- Language
- Movement
- Gesture
Response and Reflection: Be able to reflect on
- A variety of stimuli
- The process, through discussion
- The product, through evaluation
Performance: Perform and spectate with concentration
- Individually
- In a pair
- As part of a group
- As a member of an audience
Key words and techniques
- Freeze frames
- Role play
- Scene
- Blocking
- Sound collage
- Thought-tracking
- Sculpting
- Narrator
- Flash-back
- Hot-seating
- Split-stage
- In-role writing
Key Stage 3 Skills - Year 8
By the end of Year 8 students should:
Group Work: Be able to
- Work spontaneously in whole class improvisation
- Shape and develop the Drama with autonomy
Improvisation: Be able to
- Operate in improvisations with dramatic awareness
Role-play: Be able to
- Create and sustain a variety of roles
- Select and control movement and space
Response and Reflections: Be able to
- perform and spectate with sustained concentration consolidating Year 7 performance skills
Key words and techniques:
- Monologue
- Concept of stereotype
- Mood
- Atmosphere
- Focus
- Tension
- Mime/Mask/Movement
- Realism
- Movement collage
Key Stage 3 Skills - Year 9
By the end of Year 9 students should:
Group Work: Be able to
- Show awareness of equal opportunities within the group
- Demonstrate tolerance to others
Improvisation: Be able to
- Select and apply skills effectively and with autonomy
Role-play: Be able to
- Stimuli
- Process
- Performance
- Issues
Response and Reflection: Be able to reflect creatively and thoughtfully on
- Stimuli
- Process
- Performance
- issues
Performance: Be able to approach performance with dramatic understanding of
- Form
- Skills
- Style and genre
Key words and techniques:
- Reportage
- Stylised and symbolic movement
- Non-realistic form
- Dream sequence
- Walk in freeze
- Word collage
- Forum theatre
- Physical theatre
- Stanislavskian Explorative Strategies
- Brechtian Explorative Strategies
