Kaiwaka Drama Club Program

New Zealand Ministry Education Curriculum - Drama

Children will achieve when they:

Level 1

• Demonstrate an awareness that drama serves a variety of purposes in their lives and in their communities.
• Explore the elements of role, focus, action, tension, time, and spacethrough dramatic play.
• Contribute and develop ideas in drama, using personal experience and imagination.
• Share drama through informal presentation and respond to ways in which drama tells stories and conveys ideas in their own and others' work.

Level 2

• Identify and describe how drama serves a variety of purposes in their lives and in their communities.
• Explore and use elements of drama for different purposes.
• Develop and sustain ideasin drama, based on personal experience and imagination.
• Share drama through informal presentation and respond to elements of drama in their own and others' work.

Level 3

• Investigate the functions and purposes of drama in cultural and historical contexts.
• Use techniques and relevant technologies to explore drama elementsand conventions.
• Initiate and develop ideas with others to create drama.
• Present and respond to drama, identifying ways in which elements, techniques, conventions, and technologies combine to create meaning in their own and others' work.

Source: http://artsonline2.tki.org.nz/ecurriculum/drama/ao.php

2018 Curriculum Focus - Term 1

Children will:

Create two characters with different genres, develop a story line for their characters, contribute to building a sequential play.

Characters are developed by each individual, then the group assesses each part into the sequential story line and perform the play.

Costumes and scenes are provided, character lines are memorised for their combined end of term public performance.

Kaiwaka Drama Club - Lesson Format

• 10 min greetings
• 10 min Warmup activities
• 60 min total focus on drama skills (5 min break in middle)
• 10 Warm down activities
• 10 min admin, Home time

Kaiwaka Drama Club - 2018 Objectives:

1. Children to gain confidence in using own voice and voice control
   1. Speeches
   2. Rhyming verse
2. Explore the area of movement
   1. Self expression of ideas
   2. Explore a range of feelings
3. Integrate a variety of skills to produce a play
   1. Using voice, feelings, body language
   2. Write an invented character within a context of a group play.

Kaiwaka Drama Club - Class Expectations

Children are committed and on time for each session.

Appropriate clothing worn, to cater for all types of activities.

End of each term (last session) public performance, where everyone can attend and enjoy drama at its best.

Parents can be present during the warm-ups and warm-downs only.

Drama sessions are a 'NO TOUCH' safe environment with personal spaces respected.

Drama Teachers are professional at all times.