Drama and Theatre Studies
Course summary

The Blue Coat drama curriculum aims to provide highly creative, collaborative, and fun learning experiences for all students. Our goal is to furnish students with the abilities required to interpret and realize script-based drama and likewise to create original drama from scratch, as young performers, designers, and directors. Students move from project to project with the application of a spiral curriculum through which skills, knowledge, and understanding are established, revisited, and added to over their seven years with the school. Our approaches are underpinned structurally by the whole school curriculum design, our CHRIST values, the KS3 national curriculum, and the DFE’s ‘Drama Objectives Bank’. We have selected the AQA GCSE & A Level Drama specifications at Key Stages 4 and 5 as this exam board offers the greatest amount of choice to teachers and students in terms of choice of texts, specialisms, and theatre practitioners. Our ambitious project-based approach leverages creative experimentation with wide-ranging performance and design skills, ever-increasing in challenge as students move through the key stages. It likewise levers engagement with multiple styles/genres of scripts, stimuli, and issue-based topics offering learning opportunities and insight into a broad range of social, cultural, and historical contexts. We are connected to the professional theatre industry and offer students the opportunity to engage with professional artists through seeing live performances, attending workshops, and collaborating on projects. We aim to offer “something for everyone”, appealing to and broadening the specific interests of students through the diversity of opportunities drama and theatre has to offer.

Entry requirements

Achieve at least five grade 5-9 (including Maths and English). English or Drama 6.

How you'll be assessed

School Info

About Education Provider

RegionWest Midlands
Local AuthorityCoventry
Ofsted RatingGood
Gender TypeCo-Educational
AddressTerry Road, Coventry, CV1 2BA