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11–12Drama 11–12 Syllabus (2025)

Implementation from 2027
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Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 6

Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.

Scripts in practice

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Making
  • Identify the characters and setting of a scripted work

  • Explore the story or themes in a scripted work

  • Identify the purpose of a scripted work

  • Loading  to develop a shared vision for the production of a scripted work

  • Experiment with costumes and props to develop a character from a scripted work

  • Experiment with Loading  and Loading  to interpret a character from a scripted work

  • Use role-play and Loading  to explore aspects of the characters or story in a scripted work

  • Consider how to engage the audience when staging a scripted work

  • Make choices about how Loading  will be used to interpret the characters or story of a scripted work

  • Experiment with technology as a tool to communicate key messages in a scripted work

  • Experiment with dramatic elements to communicate meaning to an audience

Performing
  • Perform a Loading  or character from a script and bring it to life through voice and movement

  • Use costumes and props to express aspects of a character, role, theme or story in a scripted work

  • Use Loading  to Loading  a character or role from a scripted work

  • Use set, lighting and sound to Loading  key moments from a scripted work

  • Use set, lighting and sound to shape audience understanding of an idea, theme or story

  • Collaborate with others when participating in a performance of a scripted work

  • Engage with the audience when participating in a performance of a scripted work

Critically reflecting
  • Communicate a response to the performance of a scripted work

  • Engage with a scripted work to identify some dramatic elements

  • Identify how dramatic elements help tell the story or communicate ideas

  • Consider ways the script, acting, set and direction work together to Loading  meaning in a production

  • Reflect on personal experience of participating in a performance of a scripted work

  • Reflect on engagement with a scripted work as a maker, performer or audience member

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