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.

In Year 8, students will build on their Year 7 performance skills, adding improvisation skills and scripted performance to their performance tool kit. Students will be introduced to elements of stagecraft and various performance styles.

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.

What will this look like?

Students will play drama games regularly to build a sense of teamwork, performance and collaborative skills and self-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. Students will perform a scripted play as a class.

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

Why choose Drama in Year 8?

• enhance your skills in all areas of life, interpersonal, social, professional 

• develop an ability to work with others, empathise with and understand how others work 

• wish to pursue a career in the performing arts.

•  enjoy being creative and collaborative.

• enjoy the performing arts 

•  want to try something new and challenge themselves.

• would like to develop their expressive skills.

Duration 3 periods per week for one semester

Head of Art/Technology: Maree Brennan