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7–10Drama 7–10 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2026
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Content

Life Skills

Life Skills for Stage 4/5

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.

Performing
Dramatic contexts
  • Demonstrate self-advocacy skills

  • Perform to communicate with an audience

  • Use role-play to explore and express feelings

  • Use role-play to communicate ideas or emotions with others

  • Communicate meaning with an audience

  • Perform using the conventions of different dramatic forms or styles

  • Express self using stimulus from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Cultural Knowledges

  • Access drama for personal wellbeing or enjoyment at school or in the community

  • Contribute to a performance and/or production

Dramatic processes
  • Enact characters, situations or ideas for an audience

  • Demonstrate respect for diverse perspectives

  • Collaborate in an ensemble or stage crew

  • Connect with the community through dramatic performance

  • Develop processes for safe and inclusive performances

  • Interact respectfully with others, including gaining, giving and/or denying consent

  • Engage an audience through performance and production

  • Perform drama for own wellbeing or for shared enjoyment with an audience

  • Experiment with creative risk-taking

  • Perform in a group-devised performance

Dramatic elements
  • Perform to express self

  • Perform a character for an audience

  • Perform or contribute to a performance in a drama space

  • Use the elements of drama in performance or production

  • Use one or more elements of performance to tell a story

  • Use the elements of production to support a performance

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