11–12Drama Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2025)
The new Drama Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2025) is to be implemented from 2027 and will replace the Drama Life Skills Stage 6 Syllabus (2009).
2026
- Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027, Term 1
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 11
- Continue to teach the Drama Life Skills Stage 6 Syllabus (2009) for Year 12
2027, Term 4
- Start teaching the new syllabus for Year 12
Content
Life Skills
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.
Students explore how Australian practitioners use dramatic forms, styles, and conventions to convey ideas and perspectives through the study of Australian dramatic works. They explore dramatic contexts and use dramatic elements and dramatic processes to make, perform and reflect on these works.
Identify the characters, settings and events of an Australian work
Explore the story or ideas in the work
Identify aspects of Australia represented in the story or ideas
Experiment with costumes and props to represent settings and contexts
Experiment with voice and movement to interpret a character
Make choices about setting, lighting and sound to represent ideas about place
Consider how to engage the audience when staging the work
Make choices about how elements of drama will be used to interpret the characters or story
Experiment with dramatic elements to communicate ideas about identity, values, perspectives, issues and concerns to an audience when staging an Australian work
Participate in production of an Australian work for an audience
Use voice and movement to embody a character
Use sound and lighting to enact a key moment of a character’s journey
Embody the personality of a character from the work using costumes and props
Use symbols to shape audience understanding of how identity is represented
Use set, lighting and sound to shape audience understanding of an idea, theme or story
Use dramatic elements when staging to elicit a desired audience response
Collaborate with others when participating in a performance of an Australian work
Express personal preferences about characters and events in an Australian work
Communicate a personal response to the work
Make connections between an Australian work and personal experiences
Identify Australian voices, perspectives and representations
Identify one or more elements of production that are used to convey Australian voices, perspectives and representations
Explore the people, places or events that inspired the work
Identify how the dramatic practitioner’s context has inspired the work
Communicate how the work shapes own personal understanding of being Australian