NATIONAL 4 DRAMA

National 4 Drama is a broad-based qualification. It is suitable for learners with a general interest in the subject or for those wishing to progress to further levels of study.  

Learners will explore, develop and communicate thoughts and ideas in drama through creating, presenting and using production skills. They will explore voice, movement and characterisation skills. 

Learners will respond to stimuli and communicate their ideas with others.  Learners will also be encouraged to use their drama skills and production skills to present drama to communicate meaning to an audience. 

The learning experiences in the course are flexible and adaptable, with opportunities for personalisation and choice. This makes the qualification highly accessible as it can be contextualised to suit a diverse range of learners’ needs and aspirations. 

The course is largely learner-centred with practical and experiential learning opportunities. On completing the course, learners will be able to work collaboratively, communicate thoughts and ideas, create and present drama, use production skills when presenting to communicate meaning to an audience, show knowledge of social and cultural influences on drama, and reflect on their own work and that of others. 

It is expected that learners will also develop broad, generic skills through this course. The skills that learners will be expected to improve on and develop through the course are based on SQA’s Skills Framework: Skills for Learning, Skills for Life and Skills for Work and drawn from the main skills areas listed below:

1 Literacy 

1.3 Listening and talking 

3 Health and wellbeing 

3.1 Personal learning 

4 Employability, enterprise and citizenship 

4.3 Working with others 

5 Thinking skills 

5.2 Understanding 

5.5 Creating 

Information has been taken directly from the SQA website.