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 improvisation is used to generate, shape and refine new ideas for dramatic work. Experimenting with movement, voice and interactions, they respond to a range of stimulus and contexts. Students devise scenes to engage an audience and reflect on their choices to understand how dramatic processes create meaning.
Participate in drama activities to generate ideas
Demonstrate safe and inclusive practices when collaborating
Engage with the ideas and contributions of others when devising collaboratively
Draw on personal experiences as stimulus for devising a dramatic work
Draw on local or international events when devising a dramatic work
Use improvisation and role-play to collaboratively generate ideas for dramatic works
Use improvisation and role-play to interpret scripted dramatic works
Use improvisation and role-play to collaboratively devise a dramatic work for an audience
Reflect on the use of role-play and improvisation in devising dramatic works
Respond to stimuli or sensory experiences during role-play or improvisation
Participate in an improvised performance
Communicate with others to gain, give and deny consent to interact when participating in an improvised performance
Engage with feedback when participating in an improvised performance
Use safe and responsible practices and processes when participating in an improvised performance or dramatic play
Collaborate with others when staging a performance
Communicate meaning to an audience when performing
Express a personal response to an improvised dramatic work
Reflect on how using role-play and improvisation helps express different ideas, feelings and perspectives
Recognise that meaning in dramatic works is created through improvisation and role-play
Reflect on personal contributions to an individual or group performance
Describe how the skills of collaborative practice can be used in everyday life