Welcome to Astrea Academy Sheffield Inspiring Beyond Measure
Curriculum
Dance and movement showing different ways to journey across the floor, Perform a dinosaur dance showing how different dinosaurs moved, Story scribing and acting out children’s own versions of traditional tales.
Imaginary play – travelling on ships, going to the South Pole, climbing Everest, blasting off into space, working at the Space Station, landing on Mars.
Join in with repeating refrains and anticipating key events and phrases in rhymes and stories, follow directions, recognising left and right e.g. in games such as Simon says, describe a pretend object in play based situations, e.g. when role playing a coronation a child might use props for their orb and scepter, Use intonation and rhythm when joining in with stories and rhymes.
The drama curriculum works through the curriculum of various other subjects such as traditional tales in English, narrative painting in Art and through a focus on dance in the PE curriculum.
The drama curriculum works through the curriculum of various other subjects such as character description and performance poetry in English, narrative painting in Art and through a focus on pop songs which tell a story in Music.
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Half Term 1: Using Space to tell a story
Half Term 2: Acting Skills
Half Terms 3 & 4: Vocal Technique
Half Terms 5 & 6: Working with a scripts, Grimm’s Tales – Phillip Pulman
A successful Y7 scholar will be able to:
- Use their voices and bodies effectively to communicate with an audience
- Have a strong grasp of stagecraft and use of theatre space effectively to tell a story
- Be able to demonstrate and discuss the techniques and practices used be performers to prepare for a performance
- Be able to begin interpreting scripts and make technical and creative decisions to stage a play
Half Terms 1 & 2: Building a character
Half Terms 3 & 4: The Tempest – Shakespeare
Half Terms 5 & 6: Devised Theatre
A successful Y8 scholar
- Will understand the process of building a character and creating moments of drama for performace through collaboration
- Will know about Shakespeare’s use of lambic Pentameter, understand the difference between prose and verse and be able to identify metrical feet
- Will be able to reflect on and analyse the process of devising theatre using a stimulus, including technical and creative choices, rehearsal and performance
Half Terms 1 & 2: Mask Theatre – Trestle Theatre
Half Terms 3 & 4: Romeo and Juliet – Shakespeare
Half Terms 5 & 6: Small Group Perfomrance – DNA
A successful Y9 scholar will be able to:
- Understand sub-genres of theatre and be able to comment on various types and styles of mask
- Be able to comment on Shakespeare’s use of Iambic Pentameter for dramatic effect and to perform a passafe of Shakespearean text with no script
- Be able to reflect on and analyse the process of staging scenes from a play and comment accuratley on technical and creative considerations as well as the rehearsal and performance.