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21/03/24

Shout out to our Year 12 students"I wanted to email to say how impressed we were with the Year 12 biology students from HABE who attended the recent trip to Juniper Hall FSC. They were exceptional."

13/03/24

Here is some of our students preparations for the 2024 festival of STEM. https://t.co/smFOpXRQzp

08/03/24

Anyone interested in learning more about the Health Care profession? pic.twitter.com/poJWBwoUST

08/03/24

Harry Potter fanatics! pic.twitter.com/hCZKSWzYen

08/03/24

We are blessed to have such amazing staff. Happy World Book Day. pic.twitter.com/fDMpSUP5o6

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07/03/24

'All the worlds a stage. pic.twitter.com/oHFDv1NcAA

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28/02/24

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27/02/24

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27/02/24

Our student leaders having a working breakfast as they plan next terms society projects. pic.twitter.com/ji7NgB3E5t

21/02/24

🚨 SPORTS TOUR 🚨 ⚽️🏀GIBRALTAR - APRIL 2025🏈🏐Year 7 and 8 sports teams invited! Please see Ms Jaymes for more information. pic.twitter.com/aS5hioOZiM

21/02/24

🚨 EXTERNAL EXTRA-CURRICULAR CLUB OFFERS 🚨 - Cheerleading (Thursday) - Dance (Tuesday- Lacrosse (Friday)- Muay Thai (Wednesday)Please see Mr Stokes for more information.

20/02/24

🚨 2024 SKI TRIP CLIP 🚨Thank you again to all staff that gave up their half-term and our brilliant students for the most amazing trip! Excited to get the plans started for next year ✈️ If you would like the full video, please come and see Miss Saunders ⛷️ pic.twitter.com/QZh4rAwzUm

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Drama

Curriculum intent

Drama is a universal language that embodies one of the highest forms of creativity. Our high-quality drama education will engage and inspire students to develop a love of Drama and their talent as practitioners. As students progress, they will develop a critical engagement with drama, allowing them to devise, perform, appreciate performance and bring dramatic texts to life.

For further details of the Drama curriculum please see the documents at the bottom of the page or contact  Mr. C. Argyrakis.

The key concepts in drama are skill-driven and aim to build personal skills which can be relied upon to succeed, not only in drama lessons but beyond school life and in future employment.

At the heart of drama is the development of these skills in all students; engagement, communication and oracy, creative imagination, clarity of expression, autonomy, leadership confidence and cooperation.

There is more to drama than being able to perform on stage. Opportunities are embedded for students to be able to hone and develop performance talent but equally important is the ability to understand the purpose of the theatre we create. Drama mediums, elements, explorative strategies and methodologies of theatrical practitioners are introduced throughout the key stages to enable students not only to ‘re-enact’ but to shape their own unique ideas with a greater understanding of the need for style, intention, theatrical creation and to learn to celebrate individual and unique perspectives.

The curriculum is structured based on the expectations for GCSE Drama whereby key concepts and skills required by the end of Year 11 are fed down into schemes of work from Year 7 upwards.

Within all key stages, students will be exposed to three components within the Edexcel GCSE Drama specification: Component 1 devising, Component 2 performance from text and Component 3 bringing texts to life, designed to raise expectations and standards from the start of Key Stage 3 and ensure that drama knowledge is being understood both practically and theoretically. With this in mind, students will explore the roles and responsibilities of the performer, director and designer.

Within our curriculum, we include a range of texts to explore diversity and a range of social, historical or cultural contexts to encourage tolerance and understanding. We aim for students to attend regular theatre opportunities to inspire them creatively and to develop their cultural capital. This will support them to not only form their own opinions of theatre, but to appreciate the choices of others. Along with the performance element of drama, students will develop their analytical minds whilst communicating effectively through written and oral means.

Post GCSE Drama, students can continue further study within the subject by taking the A-Level Drama and Theatre course. There are many career paths individuals can take relating to drama and theatre such as becoming an actor, stage manager, arts administrator, drama teacher, drama therapist, television production assistant, radio presenter, theatre director etc.


Year 7 Drama

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Mime

Clowning

Narrative Theatre

Origins of Greek Theatre &  Mythology

Theatre Around the World

Shakespeare Macbeth


Year 8 Performing Arts

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Stage Combat

Film Music Performance and Composition

Reality TV

Blues performance arranging  and Improvisation

Technical Stage Design

Classical and Romantic Orchestra


Year 9 Performing Arts

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Proxemix and Status

Hip Hop Performance and Composition

Devising using different practicitioners

Bhangra and Musical Fusion. Performing and Arranging

Directing and Designging