Year 2/3

Exploring the Elements of Drama

Dear Parents and Guardians,

This term in Drama, our students have been busy exploring the elements of drama and learning how to use them to create, perform, and reflect on stories. The focus has been on making drama—using imagination, collaboration, and dramatic techniques to shape ideas into performances.

Students have been experimenting with a variety of skills, including:

• Improvising and enacting stories by drawing on their own imagination and ideas from multiple sources.
• Developing characters by embodying their qualities, attitudes, and movements.
• Exploring relationships between characters while staying in role.
• Experimenting with voice and language, using pitch, pace, and tone to bring characters to life.
• Storytelling through different forms, including readers’ theatre and student-devised drama, to adapt or represent narratives in engaging ways.

• Creating a sense of setting, using performance space, props, and dramatic choices to indicate time of day or historical context.

   

Through these activities, students are not only developing their performance skills but also building confidence, collaboration, and creativity. It has been wonderful to see them taking risks with their ideas and enjoying the process of bringing stories to life.

CA1-DRA-01: makes and performs drama to embody and enact characters, ideas and stories, and describes ways that drama communicates ideas

CA2-DRA-01: makes and performs drama to embody and enact characters, ideas and stories for an audience, and describes ways the dramatic elements are used to convey meaning