Drama (Y10-11)

The GCSE Drama qualification engages students through encouraging creativity, focusing on practical work which reflects twenty-first century theatre practice and developing skills that will support progression to further study of Drama.

• Clear and coherent structure - our qualification has a straightforward structure with three components, one that focuses on devising, one that focuses on performing in or designing for a performance from a text and one that focuses on practical understanding of a performance text
• Practical focus - this new qualification focuses on the practical exploration of performance texts. The performance text that will be studied for the examination will require students to articulate how they would perform in certain roles, and direct and design for certain extracts, putting practical work at the heart of the qualification
• Clear and straightforward question papers - we have focused on ensuring that our question papers are clear and accessible for students and that mark schemes are straightforward and make the requirements clear
• Performance skills - we will continue to assess student’s performance skills through visiting examiners ensuring students skills are assessed in a live context

Assessment objectives

• We will create and develop ideas to communicate meaning for theatrical performance
• We will apply theatrical skills to realise artistic intentions in live performance
• We will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of how drama and theatre is developed and performed
• We will analyse and evaluate their own work and the work of others

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