In drama we aim to deliver content through engaging narrative using explorative techniques to help learners understand the world that they live in, the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ through shared dramatic experience. Through the dramatic narrative that learners work through they are encouraged to deal with a diverse range of thematic issues and values. Our aim is to create a truly human curriculum.

The curriculum strikes a delicate balance between the performative and explorative elements of drama and aims to give learners a well-rounded knowledge of and appreciation for dramatic form and content.
Importantly, we draw inspiration from our place within the English National Curriculum, developing the learner’s skills and attributes in reading, writing, grammar/ vocabulary and spoken English. Learners across all key stages will study a range of concepts, practitioners and texts that are wide, varied and challenging.

Whilst the drama curriculum at Lyng Hall keeps a sharp focus on the requirements of the examination board studied at Key Stage 4, it is also didactic in nature in that the subject gives the learners an opportunity to explore social, moral and cultural issues using the dramatic frame.

The current Key Stage 3 offering is designed as a spiral curriculum. The intent is that the strategies, mediums and elements of drama are introduced in year 7 are revisited in later years covering similar skills but increasing the technicality or complexity of how and why the skill is used. Thus, pushing learners from simplistic use of dramatic form and content to the point where they are able to use these elements independently and innovatively.
This spiral curriculum is facilitated by following broad themes which repeat in each cycle (year) these being: theatre from other cultures, historical drama, devising drama from stimulus, exploration of dramatic text, review of professional performance and study of dramatic practitioners. In each cycle learners will have the opportunity to study each of these key themes either as a discreet scheme of learning or as an element within a scheme.