Performing Arts

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Curriculum Overview

Year 7

In Year 7, students will study Drama and Music once a week throughout the year and will participate in Dance lessons as part of the PE curriculum. Year 7 is a learning journey created to encourage, develop and inspire our students to become musicians, performers & creators.
  • Music Instrumental Skills
Students will study various instrumental skills, learning the different skills required for individual instruments (tuned and untuned percussion, ukulele, keyboard & voice) as well as musical elements (dynamics, pitch & rhythms). The musical skills will be learnt through 3 music types: World Music, Classical Music and Popular Music.
Areas of Study:
  • World Music – Gamelan
  • Junk Percussion
  • Singing
  • Ukulele
  • Higher Keyboards Skills
  • Musical Elements
  • Drama
The Drama course in Year 7 explores the history of Drama through 17th & 18th century forms of theatre and compares these to more modern approaches through scripted performances and drama techniques used on stage. Embedded in lessons is encouragement to work as part of a group and develop characters through individual acting skills, with the option for set and costume design for those who wish to explore different theatrical elements.
Areas of Study:
  • Techniques to mark a moment on stage
  • Melodrama
  • Mime
  • Scripted performances – Charlie & The Chocolate Factory
  • Commedia Dell’Arte
  • Scripted performances – Blue Remembered Hills

Year 8

Performing Arts studies will continue once a week throughout the year, with Dance lessons being taught as part of the PE curriculum. Students will develop their Music & Drama skills through popular music and current TV and film medias. Students will be assessed in three key areas; creating, performing and responding. Students will be marked at the end of each unit of work through self-assessment and teacher grading through practical assessments.

Music

Students will learn the history and development of popular music through performances and composition. The aim is that each half term students will focus on a new genre, they will learn the history and origins of the genre, the key musical elements for each through a performance of a song and finally evidence their understanding of the genre by composing.

Areas of study:

Blues

Rock ‘n’ roll

Reggae

Pop Music

Film Music

Christmas Music

Company Creations

 

Drama

The history of Drama study moves into the 19th & 20th century looking at naturalism and basic Brechtian techniques. Students will participate in stage combat lessons, scripted performances as well as devising their own work in response to a given stimulus.

Areas of Study:

Soap Opera & Screen Acting

Drama techniques & Story Telling – The Hunger Games

Marking a moment on stage revisit – Reality TV

Physical Theatre

Devising Theatre

Scripted Performances; ‘Teachers’

Year 9

Performing Arts lessons take place once a fortnight in Drama & Music, up until students taking their formal GCSE options. If at this point a student chooses a Performing Arts subject to study further at GCSE, they would have lessons 6 times a fortnight. Students will participate in stand alone lessons throughout different topics.

 

Music – Instrumental Skills & Performance

Students will focus this year on instrumental skills and performance by working in band workshops. Students will have a different band, genre and focus each half term and they will learn how to rehearse successfully, how to develop instrumental technique and how to perform effectively.

Areas of Study:

  • Instrumental skills: keyboards / singing / ukulele
  • Working as a band on modern covers; Counting Stars
  • Composition to a brief

Drama – Devising, Script & Company Production

Year 9 Drama aims to develop students' understanding of different areas of theatre and performance as well as developing their performance skills. The course is designed to give pupils the chance to experience different areas from within the GCSE course as well as developing their acting skills and ability to create and perform a character on stage.

Areas of Study:

  • Devising work from a stimulus; Change, Status, Fame & Celebrity
  • Scripted performances; Blood Brothers, The Last Resort, Doctor Doctor
  • Theatre in Education

Year 10

Qualification:

Level 1/2 Vocational Award in Performing Arts (Technical Award)

KS4 students will practically explore and participate in a broad range of Dance, Drama and Music activities. Learning about the history of Dance, Drama & Music, practitioners and experiencing professional examples of work. Through both individual and group work. Students will engage with reflective practice as they reflect on their own work and that of others in all three disciplines.

What do they get from the curriculum:

They will get a robust program of performing arts delivered by specialists in their area in a vocational context which prepares them for post 16. We have a desire that all pupils leave Performing Arts at Warblington with an imbedded love for the subjects and the skills to equip them to go into industry or vocational courses.

KS4 students will be required to apply previously taught techniques & skills to their own interpretations of practical work devising & composing their own work as well as reinterpreting their own versions of professional / published work.

The course is made up of 3 units

In year 10 students will complete unit 1

Unit 1: Performing

Students will learn the skills & techniques needed to produce a successful performance of an existing work, such a piece of music or an extract from a play or show.

Unit 2: Creating

In this unit students will create and refine their own original work in performing arts, such as choreography, designing costumes, creating plays or composing music.

Unit 3: Performing Arts in Practice

Unit 3 explores areas of the performing arts industry that need to be considered when responding to a commission, and will consider these when coming up with and pitching your own idea.

Year 11

  • Qualification:

Level 1/2 Vocational Award in Performing Arts (Technical Award)

KS4 students will practically explore and participate in a broad range of Dance, Drama and Music activities. Learning about the history of Dance, Drama & Music, practitioners and experiencing professional examples of work. Through both individual and group work. Students will engage with reflective practice as they reflect on their own work and that of others in all three disciplines.

  • What do they get from the curriculum:

They will get a robust program of performing arts delivered by specialists in their area in a vocational context which prepares them for post 16. We have a desire that all pupils leave Performing Arts at Warblington with an imbedded love for the subjects and the skills to equip them to go into industry or vocational courses.

KS4 students will be required to apply previously taught techniques & skills to their own interpretations of practical work devising & composing their own work as well as reinterpreting their own versions of professional / published work.

  • The course is made up of 3 units
  • Year 11 will focus on unit 2 & Unit 3

Unit 1: Performing

Students will learn the skills & techniques needed to produce a successful performance of an existing work, such a piece of music or an extract from a play or show.

Unit 2: Creating

In this unit students will create and refine their own original work in performing arts, such as choreography, designing costumes, creating plays or composing music.

Unit 3: Performing Arts in Practice

Unit 3 explores areas of the performing arts industry that need to be considered when responding to a commission, and will consider these when coming up with and pitching your own idea.

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