7–10Drama 7–10 Syllabus
The new Drama 7–10 Syllabus (2023) is to be implemented from 2026.
2024 and 2025 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2026 – Start teaching 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.
Content
Stage 5
- DR5-MAK-01
creates and refines meaning through experimentation with dramatic processes
- DR5-MAK-02
selects and applies dramatic elements to create and refine works and experiences through dramatic contexts
Interpret and apply artistic, cultural, social and personal contexts, protocols and intentions
Generate, rehearse and refine ideas, images and stories to explore and interpret individual and collective identities, values and perspectives
Explore and interpret dramatic works, practices or practitioners to guide experimentation with dramatic conventions, forms and styles
Create and refine 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, develop and refine intention with collaborators
Create, interpret and refine coherent devised and scripted theatrical works
Select, enact and refine ideas in warm-ups, workshops, rehearsals and dramatic play
Seek, recognise and exchange 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 respectful protocols for creating dramatic action with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Communities, practitioners and Knowledges
Explore, document and evaluate ways to use performance skills to develop dramatic action through trial and error
Use improvising processes to make, accept and extend offers of ideas and dramatic action
Collaboratively generate and develop creative and critical ideas, stimulus and experiments in group-devising processes
Document processes used to generate, evaluate and refine dramatic works
Interpret, enact and refine scripted and original roles, characters and situations
Explore and refine the elements of drama in improvising, rehearsing and devising
Experiment with, rehearse and refine ways of applying the elements of performance
Investigate how to use the elements of production to craft dramatic works
Rehearse, refine and experiment with the elements of drama, performance and production to craft dramatic meaning and audience engagement in theatrical moments, transitions and journeys