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Throughout the wide and varied topics
covered across Years 7 and 8, students will
start their development of performance skills
and analyse how these skills could support
them on their journey through their time
at the school, providing a basis for further
development in the professional world. We
look to broaden our students’ appreciation of
a range of innovative performance styles and
influences from across history and cultures,
and support many other areas of the Lower
School curriculum.
Drama allows our pupils to start their creative
growth through a free and open exploration
process tailored to the particular class
ensemble that comes into our rehearsal
studios.
The freedom of expression in Drama enables
our students to look at our subject from the
points of view that interest them the most,
whether this is naturalistic drama, slapstick
comedy or abstract physical performance. We
endeavour to tailor our work to our students’
strengths as well as help them identify within
themselves where their creative journey
could go. As such, the study of Drama is a
self-reflective process, with pupils spending
as much time understanding the effect of
performance skills on an audience as they
do putting them into practice, enabling us
to foster critical thinking when it comes to
decision making.
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