Drama Area

The Drama curriculum at Swanmore is diverse, challenging and engaging, promoting essential skills such as teamwork, physical awareness and critical thinking. Drama offers pupils the opportunity to work both independently and within a team, developing their working flexibility, self confidence and communication proficiency.

At Key Stage 3 Drama is taught on a modular basis and pupils are formally assessed on their work each half term.  The department’s approach is naturally creative, lively and engaging, and we encourage pupils to develop creative expression through the application of drama disciplines.  Alongside the basic foundation of dramatic skills, observational and independent powers of learning are developed together with analytical thinking.

Drama is a popular option at GCSE and the department follows the AQA examination board specification.  The course is modular and pupils study disciplines such as devising, improvisation, and performing from a scripted play, as well as the very popular theatre-in-education module which is toured to some of our local primary schools.

Extra curricula provision in Drama is very important and to this end the department runs a Key Stage 3 Drama club after school which works towards a production in the summer term.  A College Production is mounted annually affording pupils the opportunity to participate in a variety of roles, for example, in a technical capacity (such as lighting designers or sound technicians), as part of a publicity team, or as part of the stage management team.  The department is also keen to encourage a wider appreciation of the performing arts and runs regular theatre trips to facilitate this.