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Foundation to Year 2 Drama

In Foundation to Year 2, learning in The Arts builds on the Early Years Learning Framework. Students are engaged through purposeful and creative play in structured activities, fostering a strong sense of wellbeing and developing their connection with …

Foundation to Year 2 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Years 3 and 4 Drama

In Years 3 and 4, learning in The Arts builds on the experience of the previous band. It involves students making and responding to artworks independently and collaboratively with their classmates and teachers. As they experience The Arts, students draw …

Years 3 and 4 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Years 5 and 6 Drama

In Years 5 and 6, students draw on artworks from a range of cultures, times and locations. They explore the arts of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and of the Asia region and learn that they are used for different purposes. While the arts …

Years 5 and 6 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Years 7 and 8 Drama

In Drama, students: build on their understanding of role, character and relationships use voice and movement to sustain character and situation use focus, tension, space and time to enhance drama incorporate language and ideas and use devices such …

Years 7 and 8 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Years 9 and 10 Drama

In Drama, students: refine and extend their understanding and use of role, character, relationships and situation extend the use of voice and movement to sustain belief in character maintain focus and manipulate space and time, language, ideas and …

Years 9 and 10 | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Rationale Drama

This rationale complements and extends the rationale for The Arts learning area. Drama is the expression and exploration of personal, cultural and social worlds through role and situation that engages, entertains and challenges. Students create meaning …

Rationale | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Structure Drama

Learning in Drama Learning in Drama involves students making, performing, analysing and responding to drama, drawing on human experience as a source of ideas. Students engage with the knowledge of drama, develop skills, techniques and processes, and use …

Structure | Drama | The Arts | F-10 curriculum

Learning Area Achievement Standard Drama Years 5 and 6

By the end of Year 6, students explain how ideas are communicated in artworks they make and to which they respond. They describe characteristics of artworks from different social, historical and cultural contexts that influence their art making. Students …

ACADRM037

Rehearse and perform devised and scripted drama that develops narrative, drives dramatic tension, and uses dramatic symbol, performance styles and design elements to share community and cultural stories and engage an audience

Elaborations ScOT Terms

ACADRR038

Explain how the elements of drama and production elements communicate meaning by comparing drama from different social, cultural and historical contexts, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander drama

Elaborations ScOT Terms

Elaboration ACADRM029

presenting scenes in which they apply story structures to set the scene, link action and create an ending, such as a cultural or community story with the assistance of representatives from the community

Elaboration ACADRR030

identifying where they might see and hear drama in their lives and community, for example, sharing experiences of attending drama performances or taking part in drama in their community, and considering how drama sustains and communicates cultural kn …

Elaboration ACADRR034

identifying meaning and describing purposes in drama from different social, cultural or historical contexts

Elaboration (2) ACADRR034

comparing the expectations and requirements of performers and audience in different cultural settings and applying learning in their own performances

Elaboration (2) ACADRM037

exploring and applying different performance styles, and drawing on drama from other locations, cultures and times as sources of ideas in their own drama, and considering any protocols for representing community or cultural stories in performance

Elaboration (2) ACADRR038

talking and writing about drama from other places and times and how it might or does contribute to their own drama, and how cultural understandings shape meanings in drama

Elaboration ACADRR046

identifying the social, historical and cultural contexts of the forms and styles represented in their drama

Elaboration (3) ACADRR046

Considering viewpoints – contexts: For example – What is the cultural context in which the drama was developed, or in which it is viewed, and what does it signify? How does this drama relate to its social context and that of its makers and audiences? …

Elaboration (2) ACADRM048

Considering viewpoints – contexts: For example – How does the drama relate to its social context in which it was created? What culturally symbolic movements are evident in this drama? What historical influences have impacted on this drama? How are global …

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