Drama is the expression and exploration of personal, cultural and social worlds through role and situation that engages, entertains and challenges. Students create meaning as drama makers, performers and audiences as they enjoy and analyse their own and others’ stories and points of view. Like all art forms, drama has the capacity to engage, inspire and enrich all students, excite the imagination and encourage students to reach their creative and expressive potential.

What will I learn?

Students will imagine and participate in exploration of their worlds, individually and collaboratively. Students actively use body, gesture, movement, voice and language, taking on roles to explore and depict real and imagined worlds. They create, rehearse, perform and respond using the elements and conventions of drama and emerging and existing technologies available to them.

What will I do?

Students learn to think, move, speak and act with confidence. In making and staging drama students will learn how to be focused, innovative and resourceful, and collaborate and take on responsibilities for drama presentations. Through role and dramatic action students explore, imagine and take risks to communicate ideas, experiences and stories. In Year 7, students will explore improvisation, melodrama and fairytale storytelling, and will be introduced to Laban’s 8 basic efforts. These efforts that are the foundation of all movement.

What will this look like?

Students will play drama games regularly to build a sense of teamwork, performance and confidence in their own abilities learn to think, move, speak and act with confidence. Students will plan, rehearse and perform short group performances in their classroom emphasising the skills taught. Student will evaluate and provide positive, constructive feedback on the performance.

Where possible, students will be exposed to live theatre performances as the opportunities become available.

What will this lead to?

Further Drama studies in Year 8 and studies through to VCE

Lessons per week: 2 periods per week for one semester

Head of Art/Technology: Maree Brennan