Our GCSE Drama programme offers students the opportunity to explore drama as a practical art form in which ideas and meaning are communicated to an audience through choices of form, style and convention. Students will create, perform and respond to drama informed by their theoretical knowledge of drama and theatre.
Students will follow the AQA GCSE in Drama
The subject content for GCSE Drama is divided into three components:
What will I study?
This course provides as much opportunity as possible for students to do what they like best – participate in performance.
All students devise drama.
All students explore texts practically and work on two text-based performances.
Students can choose to develop as a:
Whichever option they choose, students can be sure to gather many invaluable skills, both theatrical and transferable, to expand their horizons.
Students in years 12 and 13 will follow the BTEC Level 3 National Certificate in Performing Arts