Drama promotes language development; its collaborative nature provides opportunities for students to develop key skills of communication, negotiation, compromise and self-assertion. Students develop confidence when speaking and their vocabulary is extended when they adopt roles and characters. Students also acquire a critical and subject-specific vocabulary through reflecting on and appraising their own work and others’ work in Drama. 

There is global recognition that social wellbeing is founded on personal maturity and emotional literacy. Human concerns and relationships are the foundations of much drama. Drama lessons provide a safe context to explore such issues. Drama involves students working creatively together and problem solving in groups of various sizes. These skills, along with flexibility, empathy and risk-taking, are intrinsic to good drama practice. They are also recognised as vital in the workplace and throughout adult life. 

Our Drama curriculum will give students the opportunity to: 

• Develop drama techniques to explore, in role, a variety of situations and texts or respond to stimuli. 
• Extend their spoken repertoire by experimenting with language in different roles and dramatic contexts. 
• Develop drama techniques and strategies for anticipating, visualising and problem-solving in different learning contexts. 
• Explore and develop ideas, issues and relationships through work in role. 
• Collaborate in and evaluate the presentation of dramatic performances both scripted and unscripted, which explore character, relationships and issues. 
• Have good performance skills, and show sensitivity and an awareness of place, occasion and audience. 
• Recognise, explore and show understanding of the human relationships which form the basis of much of the drama they study – for example, whether they use drama to amplify work in personal and social education.