7–10Drama 7–10 Syllabus

Explore artistic, cultural, social and personal contexts, protocols and intentions

Generate and rehearse ideas, images and stories to explore individual and collective identities, values and perspectives

Explore works, practices and practitioners to guide experimentation with dramatic conventions, forms and styles

Create dramatic action and meaning informed by the dynamic and evolving Cultural Knowledges of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander works, practices or practitioners

Use language appropriate to context to communicate and develop intention with collaborators

Create coherent devised and scripted theatrical works

Embody ideas in warm-ups, workshops, rehearsals and dramatic play

Seek, exchange and consider perspectives with others to co-construct drama

Manage voice, movement and equipment safely

Interact safely, respectfully and inclusively with others live and online, including gaining, giving and denying consent

Explore and apply protocols for creating dramatic action with respect for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Communities, practitioners and/or Knowledges

Explore and document creative and critical ideas through trial and error

Make, accept and extend offers of improvised dramatic ideas and action

Collaboratively respond to and develop ideas, stimulus and experiments in group-devising processes

Interpret and enact scripted or original roles, characters and situations

Explore the elements of drama in improvising, rehearsing and devising

Rehearse and refine the elements of performance

Explore how the elements of production shape and support the elements of drama

Choose and rehearse the elements of drama, performance and production to shape dramatic meaning and audience engagement in theatrical moments, transitions and journeys