They will extend their practical skills and work with more complicated texts and ideas to extend their knowledge about drama and explore new skills.

Entry Recommendation

Year 11 Drama or on application to Head of Faculty.

Introduction

Students learn in much more depth in Year 12. They will extend their practical skills and work with more complicated texts and ideas to extend their knowledge about drama and explore new skills. 

They are challenged to make sense of their own ideas, the ideas of others and to deepen their understanding of the elements and conventions of drama. Students will learn through experience of play, improvisation, performance, research and stagecraft. They work as a team and make every effort to work collaboratively.

Content

Students will study topics on theatre history and form and use this knowledge to interpret and perform a range of texts. They will extend their practical skills using the drama techniques of voice body movement and space with much more conscious control. 

Students will devise new work in groups and use a greater range of theatre technologies to create dramatic meaning. They will view and analyse live performances.

 
Many of the specific topics will be decided in consultation with the class. There is a range of learning and assessment opportunities, and each girl’s course will comprise of 18 credits.

Skills

• Analytical skills are developed through engaging with complicated texts and performance

• Collaborative skills

• Developing imagination, creativity and problem-solving skills

• Performance skills.

Field Trip(s)

Live theatre performance (approx. one per term). $70 theatre visits, performance rights and production costs.

Achievement Standards

External

AS91215 - Discuss a drama or theatre from a period with reference to a text 

✅ Credits 4

✅ UE Reading 

❎ UE Writing  

AS91219 v2 - Discuss drama elements, techniques, conventions and technologies within live performance 

✅ Credits 5

❎ UE Reading  

✅ UE Writing 

Internal

AS91214 v2 - Devise and perform a drama to realise a intention 

✅ Credits 5

❎ UE Reading 

❎ UE Writing 

AS91213 v2 - Apply drama techniques in a scripted context 

✅ Credits 4

✅ UE Reading  

❎ UE Writing  

AS91218 v2 - Perform a substantial acting role in a scripted production 

✅ Credits 5

✅ UE Reading  

❎ UE Writing  

AS91216 - Use complex performance skills associated with a drama or theatre form or period 

✅ Credits 4

✅ UE Reading 

❎ UE Writing  

Enquiries to: Ms Gordon