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7–10Drama 7–10 Syllabus

Record of changes
Implementation from 2026
Expand for detailed implementation advice

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.

Making
Dramatic contexts
  • Engage in role-play

  • Role-play in response to a social problem

  • Engage in improvisation and role-play to connect with others

  • Play with ways to create meaning for an audience

  • Explore dramatic forms or styles

  • Use dramatic forms or styles to shape an idea or story

  • Communicate ideas using stimulus from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Cultural Knowledges

  • Use a script to rehearse dialogue, action and character

  • Contribute to dramatic action or meaning

Dramatic processes
  • Enact ideas in warm-ups, workshops or rehearsals

  • Demonstrate respect for others’ ideas and contributions

  • Use voice, movement or equipment safely

  • Interact safely with others in drama, including gaining, giving and denying consent

  • Use or document trial-and-error processes to solve problems

  • Collaborate with others to respond to stimulus in play and improvisation

  • Collaborate to develop a group performance

Dramatic elements
  • Use the terminology of drama to communicate during play or rehearsal

  • Enact a character or role to solve a problem

  • Explore aspects of space to communicate through design or movement

  • Explore the elements of drama in improvisation and play

  • Rehearse using the elements of performance

  • Choose elements of production to support a performance

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