Drama

Courses on Offer

Drama GCSE will be starting this September. The students will be following the Edexcel specification where they will learn about performing in a greater depth. Students will also get to go and see and evaluate a live performance.

Topics Studied in Key Stage 3 and 4

Improvisation – students to learn key skills in improvising and learning the importance of improvisation if students fail to remember lines.

Mask/Mime – students to learn about trestle theatre masks and how to perform wearing masks

Scripts – Students to learn about using scripts and how to bring a script to life

Jamie Bulger – students to learn what empathy is. Students need to know how to empathise with real life people in order to create realistic characters.

Aberfan Disaster – Students learning to empathise with characters.

“Terrible Fate of Humpty Dumpty” – A script where students learn about bullying, relationships and school.

Escapism – students to think about symbolism and how to represent certain things and issues in creative ways.

Year 9 homework booklet – Drama

Past, Present and Current Projects

Drama Youth Theatre put on their very first performance last year of “Do you want a biscuit with that?” The script was written by Miss Beasley to suit the level of students.

Last year Year 8 G&T Drama students visited Rye Hills School last year and took part in a Trestle Mask theatre workshop which was led by the famous Trestle Theatre Company. They learnt key skills about performing in mask and the importance of body language.

A number of G&T Drama students visited Teesside University and took part in a Television and Film workshop which was delivered by Teesside University’s Performing Arts teacher. Students learnt key skills in acting for the camera and created various television/news report clips.

This year’s Year 8 G&T Drama students visited Rye Hills School and took part in a theatre event which was run by Konflux Theatre Company. The students had to create a play in a day about the Tudors and they performed this to parents and peers.

Drama Youth Theatre put on their second production,  “Keep the Change” in May. Again, Miss Beasley wrote the script herself and ensured that it was a more challenging text this year to stretch the students and to make them think more about their characters and interpretation.

4 G&T Drama students attended an exclusive prosthetics workshop run by a very highly regarded prosthetics company “Hybrid FX”. A full day personal prosthetics workshop was created for these students where they learned skills in fake wounds, life-casting, materials for stage make-up and character creation.

These students have now started to plan mini projects for their after school Prosthetics club.

Suggested projects are: Adult classes for prosthetics, working with primary schools showing them how to make fake ears and noses and warts, murder mystery, making short films which involve prosthetics.

Drama Youth Theatre will be taking part in the Shakespeare Schools Festival and will be performing their own creation of “The Tempest” at Middlesbrough Little Theatre. Students will have to attend a cast workshop which will be delivered by the “National Theatre” and work together as a team to get a full production together for a paying audience.

Extra- Curricular

Drama Youth theatre happens every Thursday night. Students from all year groups come together to perform scripts or create devised work.

Prosthetics Club happens every Tuesday night where students from all year groups come together to learn about stage make-up. They learn how to create fake wounds and mask character creation. These students will start creating projects working with primary schools and putting short film clips together using the prosthetics.

News

GCSE Drama Students get Physical

Drama students Lucy Sweeney, Jessica King, Kayla Brown, Jodie Cox and Lucy Tyreman were all given a fantastic opportunity to enhance their performance skills when they took part in a physical theatre workshop ran by professional theatre company Frantic Assembly.

The students worked on a variety of activities, including creating interesting movement sequences and ensemble work.  They will now bring what they have learnt in this workshop back to the classroom to teach and inspire other students.