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Drama provides us with many transferable skills such as, empathy, confidence, and the opportunity to express ourselves as honestly as possible.

Our Drama department’s intent is to deliver an engaging, exciting and thought provoking curriculum that exposes students to a wide range of skills and subject knowledge. We want our curriculum to allow our students time to develop confidence in their ability to create, rehearse, perform and reflect. 

Drama challenges us to think beyond the classroom and to take ownership of our opinions.  These skills are just as important as the technical and performance skills in Drama. Teamwork, leadership skills, communication and resilience are fundamental in all of our teaching across all three key stages.

drama curriculum map

Year 7 course and assessment

Year 8 course and assessment

Year 9 course and assessment

KS4 course and assessment

KS4 Dance course and assessment

Knowledge Organisers

Exam Board: AQA
You can find the current GCSE specification here

Students are able to continue studying Drama at A Level – You can find out more about A Level Drama and Theatre Studies at Dereham Sixth Form here

Working Independently

Below are a number of links to resources available to support independent learning:

 

Assessment in Drama

You can view the current assessment and feedback policy for Drama here 

Personal Development and Cultural Capital in Drama

As part of the Drama GCSE course, there are regular trips to local and national theatres to see and eclectic range of live theatre, many of which have come ‘hot off the press’’ from The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Trips have included:

  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (National Theatre, London and Norwich Theatre Royal)
  • Love and Sex (State of Emergency, The Garage, Norwich)
  • 33 (The Wardrobe Ensemble, The Garage, Norwich)

The Drama, Music and Art departments work collaboratively on the whole-school musical production which includes also cast members from Dereham 6th Form students. Past Productions have included:

  • Bugsy Malone
  • Oliver!
  • Little Shop of Horrors
  • Peter Pan
  • We Will Rock You
  • Seussical
  • Les Miserables
  • Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
  • Into the Woods
  • Grease
  • Beauty and the Beast
  • Matilda

       ….  and many more!

The Drama Department also offers:

  • GCSE Dance
  • Drama Club
  • Dance Club
  • Reduced Shakespeare Performance
  • Showcases
  • Regular trips to theatre
  • Professional run workshops
Who Teaches Drama

Head of Department: (Currently on leave)Mrs. R. Harris, B.A. (Hons), G.T.P.
Email: rharris@ng6.unity-ed.uk

Mrs Harris graduated from Lancaster University with a BA Hons in Theatre Studies.  She then became a Drama and Dance teacher with her first job at Neatherd in 2009.  She then moved schools to Downham Market in 2018 before starting at Northgate in 2022 as Head of Drama and Dance. Outside of school Mrs Harris coaches a competitive contemporary dance team called Obsidian and is also Associate Principal Moderator for AQA GCSE Dance.

Interim Head of Department: Miss C Martinez, BA (Hons), PGCE, MA
Email: cmartinez@ng6.unity-ed.uk
 
Miss Martinez graduated from The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with a first class BA Hons in Drama, Applied Theatre and Education in 2020. She then trained to be a Drama teacher through Suffolk and Norfolk SCITT that same year with a placement at Notre Dame High School; where she subsequently stayed for four years as a teacher of Drama and English. More recently, she completed her MA in Theatre for Community and Education at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts; graduating in 2024 with distinction. Miss Martinez is half Cuban, half English and as a teenager lived in Penang, Malaysia for 6 years attaining her I-GCSEs.
 
Mr L Kemp
 

 

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