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Year 9

Curriculum Map

This curriculum map provides an overview of the drama journey students will experience throughout the academic year. It outlines the sequence of theatrical styles, performance techniques, and dramatic texts alongside key assessment points designed to monitor and support student progress. The curriculum is carefully sequenced to build knowledge progressively, with each unit providing the foundation for future learning, ensuring all students develop performance confidence, creative expression, and critical analysis appropriate to their age and stage. For detailed information about the specific knowledge and skills taught in each unit, please visit our Knowledge and Skills page.

Lesson Number:  Unit of Work Key assessments
1 Crime and Punishment theme:
The Riots 1
Stimulus exploration of London Riots
Exploratory still images and transitions.
Role play development.		  
2 The Riots 2
The Prison Cell stimulus:
Pupils explore the process of arrest and the mental state of their riot character.
Skills focus: Conscience alley and cross-cutting.		  
3 The Riots 3
Jacob Phillips’ focus; casualty of the London Riots.
Pupils explore the stimulus material using still images, narration and flashbacks.
Performance maps embedded focusing on non-linear structures.		  
4 The Riots 4
Police Officer State of Mind.
Pupils explore the PTSD of their given officer using conscience alley as their central skill.		 Assessment focus: combining the use of x3 techniques in a structured showcase performance.
Pupils to evidence how they have developed their use of the conscience alley technique.
5 The Tony Martin Case 1
Exploration of the case focusing on the truth behind statements. 
Pupils explore the stimuli using still images, role play and thoughts aloud. 		  
6 The Tony Martin Case 2
Pupils explore the sentencing of Tony Martin and the complexities of self-defence.		  
7

The Tony Martin Case 3
Using verbaitim to create performance work. Pupils consider the victims of the story using text, narration and role play.

  
8 The Interrogation – scripted stimulus
Initial page to stage technique focus.
X3 mini scenes
Character development focus.		  
9 The Interrogation 2
Development from lesson 1; abridging scenes into 1 minute showcase.		  
10 The Interrogation 3
Text as stimulus.
Pupils to develop character depth with creation of additional scene.		 Assessment: Pupils to showcase in practical performance a combination of scripted scene and devised.
11 Devising 1
Pupils create their own performance work from stimulus material. 
Performances need to use x3 techniques from Drama techniques from bank. 		  
12 Devising 2 
Pupils create their own performance work from stimulus material.
Performances need to use x3 techniques from Drama techniques from bank. 		  

 

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