Speech and Drama

Course summary

Year 12 - Terms 1 and 2 – Unit 34 Developing skills and techniques for performance (90 guided learning hours) Developing skills and techniques for live performance. Students will take part in a variety of workshops culminating in a performance of a written play in front of a live audience Term 3 – Unit 19: Applying Acting Styles and Unit 26 Physical Theatre Techniques (90 guided learning hours each) Students look at practitioners and apply their skills and techniques to performance work. There will be a variety of performances throughout the process. Year 13 Term 1 – SD will choose the last unit to be studied according to the strengths of the group Term 2 – Unit 3: Group Performance Workshop (120 guided learning hours). Pearson will release a stimulus for the students to create a devised performance. They will also have 3 milestones to complete under exam conditions (log books essentially). There is a mixture of internally and externally marked units.