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 dramatic practitioners interpret and shape scripted works. Through making and performing they explore dramatic contexts and how dramatic elements are used in performance, direction, design, and scripting of dramatic works. Students examine approaches and conventions that shape meaning in drama.
Identify the characters and setting of a scripted work
Explore the story or themes in a scripted work
Identify the purpose of a scripted work
Collaborate to develop a shared vision for the production of a scripted work
Experiment with costumes and props to develop a character from a scripted work
Experiment with voice and movement to interpret a character from a scripted work
Use role-play and improvisation to explore aspects of the characters or story in a scripted work
Consider how to engage the audience when staging a scripted work
Make choices about how elements of drama will be used to interpret the characters or story of a scripted work
Experiment with technology as a tool to communicate key messages in a scripted work
Experiment with dramatic elements to communicate meaning to an audience
Perform a role or character from a script and bring it to life through voice and movement
Use costumes and props to express aspects of a character, role, theme or story in a scripted work
Use elements of performance to embody a character or role from a scripted work
Use set, lighting and sound to enact key moments from a scripted work
Use set, lighting and sound to shape audience understanding of an idea, theme or story
Collaborate with others when participating in a performance of a scripted work
Engage with the audience when participating in a performance of a scripted work
Communicate a response to the performance of a scripted work
Engage with a scripted work to identify some dramatic elements
Identify how dramatic elements help tell the story or communicate ideas
Consider ways the script, acting, set and direction work together to create meaning in a production
Reflect on personal experience of participating in a performance of a scripted work
Reflect on engagement with a scripted work as a maker, performer or audience member