7–10Drama 7–10 Syllabus (2023)
The new Drama 7–10 Syllabus (2023) is to be implemented from 2026 and will replace the Drama 7–10 Syllabus (2003).
2025 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2026 – Start teaching the new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts. Schools may choose to implement the new syllabus during the planning and preparation phase.
Content
Stage 4
- DR4-APP-01
explains how creative choices shape works and experiences through dramatic contexts, processes and elements
Describe personal experiences with artistic, cultural, social and personal contexts, protocols and intentions as maker, performer and audience
Discuss how ideas, images and stories explore and express individual and collective identities, values and perspectives
Describe how dramatic works, practices or practitioners use dramatic conventions to shape forms and styles in making and performing
Describe the dynamic and evolving Cultural Knowledges of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander works, practices or practitioners
Use language appropriate to context to communicate about works and processes
Communicate a perspective about devised and scripted theatrical works with reference to staged examples
Describe embodied experiences of drama
Seek, exchange and consider perspectives with others to reflect on collaborative and collective experiences
Identify processes which support physical, emotional and cultural safety, respect and inclusion in drama
Identify how to support ethical processes for drama practitioners, including respect for Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP)
Reflect on processes for developing and strengthening new creative and critical ideas
Make, accept and extend interpretations of drama in discussion with others
Describe the impact of individual and group contributions to group-devising processes and works
Describe how performance or production choices shape roles, characters and situations
Describe how choices in the elements of drama shape audience impact
Explain how control of the elements of performance is developed and applied
Explore how the elements of production can shape dramatic works and experiences
Explain in writing the effect of the elements of drama, performance and production to shape dramatic meaning and audience engagement in ideas, moments and journeys