Curriculum

PERFORMING ARTS

The Eden Girls’ Performing Arts curriculum gives pupils the opportunity to engage in creative self-expression through Music and Drama.

Pupils will learn about the following elements of Music:

  • The different dynamics of music, including pitch, tempo and timbre by participating in Music Performance and Composition.
  • Learn to sing and to use their voices, to create and compose music on their own and with others.
  • Perform confidently in a range of solo and ensemble contexts using their voice.
  • Compose, extend and develop musical ideas by drawing on a range of musical structures, styles, genres and traditions.
  • Develop a deepening understanding of the music that they perform and to which they listen, and its history.
  • Perform, listen to, review and evaluate music across a range of historical periods, genres, styles and traditions.
  • Have the opportunity to learn a musical instrument.
  • Be inspired to develop a love of music and their talent as musicians to increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.

Pupils will learn about the following elements of Drama:

  • Explore the world around them and to ignite their creativity, passion and interest in Drama and Theatre.
  • The opportunity to develop their understanding of drama practitioners and a range of performance styles.
  • Evaluating and performing a diverse collection of dramatic texts, which span a range of genres.
  • Make independent decisions and be self-critical while taking into consideration the thoughts, feelings and ideas of others.
  • Develop character through body language, facial expression and gesture.
  • Grow and become supportive leaders while having a creative outlet for emotional wellbeing.
  • Be inspired to develop a love of Drama and Theatre as performers and to increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement.
Curriculum Overview
Year 7 Year 8 Year 9
  • Unit 1: Storytelling and Problem Solving: ‘The Apothecary’
  • Unit 2: People and Places: ‘Evacuees’
  • Unit 3: Music Exploration: ‘The Migration’
  • Unit 4: Devising and Presenting: ‘Dragons Den’
  • Unit 5: Set Narrative and Script Work: ‘James and the Giant Peach’
  • Unit 6: William Shakespeare’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’
  • Unit 1 – Style and Genre: ‘Melodrama’
  • Unit 2 – People and Places: ‘Anne Frank’
  • Unit 3 – Music Exploration: ‘Asmaa al-Husna’
  • Unit 4 – Issues: ‘Conflict’
  • Unit 5 – Social Response: Consequences ‘The Stones’
  • Unit 6 – Set Narrative and Script Work: ‘The Lion King’
  • Unit 1 – An Exploration of Music in Culture
  • Unit 2 – William Shakespeare’s Macbeth
  • Unit 3 – Willy Russell’s Blood Brothers
Option Choice: Drama

GCSE Drama offers you the opportunity to explore drama as a practical art form in which ideas and meaning are communicated to an audience through choices of form, style and convention. You will create, perform and respond to drama informed by your theoretical knowledge of drama and theatre.

You will develop knowledge and understanding of the characteristics of performance texts and dramatic works; social, cultural and historical contexts; how meaning is interpreted and communicated; and drama and theatre terminology and how to use it appropriately.

 

GCSE Year 1
Summer School – Drama and theatre terminology. Roles and responsibilities of theatre practitioners in contemporary theatre practice.
  • Unit 1 – Study of a set play: Blood Brothers
  • Unit 2 – Live Theatre Production Evaluation
  • Unit 3 – Devising Drama
  • Unit 4 – Texts in Practice
Assessment

There are 3 reporting points to parents each year which report on pupils’ progress and attitude to learning, attendance & punctuality

Enrichment Offer

The department offers subject-specific enrichment clubs and organises a range of educational visits and theatre trips throughout the year. Pupils who join our Nasheed Choir benefit from regular rehearsals and have the opportunity to perform during school and community events. Intervention sessions to consolidate prior learning and ensure maximum progress are at the heart of our delivery model.