Year 9
Term | Topic / Style | Description | Repertoire / Practitioner |
Autumn 1 | Skills Development Devising Theatre techniques | Introduction to Key Stage 4 Performing Arts through the exploration of a range of styles and repertoire in order to further develop skills built in Key Stage 3 | Everyone’s Talking about Jamie Girls Like That |
Autumn 2 | Page to Stage | Students to learn about all the roles and responsibilities in creating live theatre. Through practical exploration, students will develop their understanding of the creation of work related to plays. | The Ocean at the end of the lane. |
Spring 1 | Page to Stage | Students to learn about all the roles and responsibilities in creating live theatre. Through practical exploration, students will develop their understanding of the creation of work related to musical theatre.. | Six The Musical |
Spring 2 | Scene Study | Students will investigate the themes, circumstances, motivation and relationships between characters in a scene. | Mark WheelerVerbatim Theatre |
Summer 1 | Responding to a brief | Students will use the skills, knowledge and understanding gained through the year and apply it to creating their own piece of theatre. | NA |
Summer 2 | Performing a piece of repertoire | For their summative assessment, students will perform a piece of repertoire of their own choosing. | Student Choice |
Year 10
Term | Topic / Style | Description | Repertoire / Practitioner |
Autumn 1 | Exploring the Performing Arts | Students will revisit the repertoire previously studied and further analyse in depth the process leading to the creation of the work as well as the elements of the style. Students will also study one further extract from a production currently in the West End | 2023 – Everyone’s Talking about Jamie Girls Like That 2024 – TBC |
Autumn 2 | Exploring roles in the performing arts | Students will study the roles, responsibilities and skills required to successful contribute to a performance. This will culminate in a Mock assessment for the Pearson Set Assignment | |
Spring 1 | External Assessment | Students will complete the externally set assignment. | |
Spring 2 | Developing skills in the Performing Arts | Students will develop their understanding of the rehearsal process in the performing arts and the professional skills required to be successful | |
Summer 1 | Individual Skills Development | Students will be guided to either a solo a group performance of a piece of repertoire which will challenge them to develop their own skills. Students will be required to keep a logbook as well as recording ‘milestone moments’ on their journey. | Repertoire is decided by the class teacher alongside the student. |
Summer 2 |
Year 11
Term | Topic / Style | Description | Repertoire / Practitioner |
Autumn 1 | External Assessment | Students will begin work on the Pearson Set Assignment for Component 2 | Repertoire is decided by the class teacher alongside the student. |
Autumn 2 | External Assessment Cont. Devising Techniques | Students will complete the final task of the PSA. Students will then study techniques and approaches to devising theatre | |
Spring 1 | Component ThreeExternal assessment | Students will work over a 12 week period in order to complete the external assessment set by Pearson |