Creating

Ø     Can you explore familiar themes, stories & characters?

Ø     Can you plan an imaginary play area with others?

Ø     Can you practice & develop ideas for acting out stories?

Ø     Can you use simple props & resources in creating drama?

Performing

Ø     Can you take part in small group dramas?

Ø     Can you adopt a role & answer questions in role?

Ø     Can you use space, sound & movement appropriate to the drama?

Ø     Can you present your own stories using more than one form? Eg, puppets & narration?

Responding

Ø     Can you use simple drama terms when taking part and as an audience?

Ø     Can you express & describe feeling after watching a drama?

Ø     Can you recognise key moments in a play?

Ø     Can you say why you used a particular voice/movement in interpreting a character?

Ø     Can you talk about dramas you have seen & make basic connections with situations in own life?

Creating

Ø     Can you respond to a range of stimulus eg, scripts, objects & images?

Ø     Can you structure simple scenes without the teacher always watching?

Ø     Can you use dialogue & improvisation?

Ø     Can you select & use props/resources to represent particular meanings?

Performing

Ø     Can you work sensitively with others in role in small group dramas & whole group dramas?

Ø     Can you use language appropriate to a role?

Ø     Can you use space sound & movement to communicate intended meaning?

Ø     Can you contribute to a range of performances using different forms/

Responding

Ø     Can you explain what you like about a scene or character?

Ø     Can you reflect upon your response to drama, saying what you want to achieve & how it might be improved?

Ø     Can you suggest alternative forms of action?

Ø     Can you recognise different styles of drama & make connections between some of them?

Creating

Ø     Can you work with others to research the content of your drama?

Ø     Can you respond to techniques to explore character & narrative?

Ø     Can you record ideas for devised drama?

Ø     Can you consider appropriate starting points, key moments & endings?

Ø     Can you experiment / talk about simple technical resources, eg, sound, light, costume?

Performing

Ø     Can you support others when in a drama for a formal audience/assembly?

Ø     Can you maintain your role throughout the scene being shared/performed?

Ø     Can you sustain mood & atmosphere effectively in a performance?

Ø     Can you engage confidently in a range of dramatic strategies?

Responding

Ø     Can you use simple drama terms to talk to others about the effectiveness of the drama?

Ø     Can you comment sensitively on how intended effects have been achieved, & suggesting ways work could be improved?

Ø     Can you reflect on themes & issues being explored?

Ø     Can you recognise & identify different genres?

Creating

Ø     Can you research factual content, record & share findings & use in a drama?

Ø     Can you develop dramas using novels, poems & plays?

Ø     Can you devise simple scripts through improvisation?

Ø     Can you understand the use of stage directions & conventions?

Ø     Can you experiment with elements of drama?

Ø     Can you give & receive direction?

Performing

Ø     Can you support others when in a drama for a public performance?

Ø     Can you communicate character through words, movement & gesture?

Ø     Can you show your understanding of theatrical effects, eg creating tension through silence, stillness?

Ø     Can you create dramatic form to demonstrate your understanding of the stimulus & begin to understand that form conveys content?

Responding

Ø     Can you use basic vocabulary to write a response to a drama performance?

Ø     Can you accept the comments of others following a performance & use this to develop your work?

Ø     Can you connect drama with other ways that the issue/theme/story could be explored in other art forms?

Ø     Can you recognise different forms of cultural expression such as carnival, ritual, street theatre/

Creating

Ø     Can you respond to a range of stimulus material, including scripts?

Ø     Can you plan, record, notate ideas imaginatively?

Ø     Can you work co-operatively, sensitively with others in a group creating drama?

Ø     Can you explore issues/themes?

Ø     Can you write plays using the conventions of script writing?

Ø     Can you consider how images make meaning?

Ø     Can you experiment with objects, physical imagery, gesture & space?

Performing

Ø     Can you work sensitively, supportively with others in a range of presentations and performances?

Ø     Can you use a range of skills to take part in short extracts from plays including Shakespeare?

Ø     Can you show awareness of audience?

Ø     Can you use space in original ways to communicate intended meaning?

Ø     Can you show basic understanding between content & form?

Responding

Ø     Can you recognise & use a range of theatre terms?

Ø     Can you connect these terms with the drama you see or take part in, in or out of school?

Ø     Can you, when creating/performing reflect on your own & each other’s work, providing constructive responses / ideas / improvements?

Ø     Can you reflect on different ways that the same content can be portrayed?

Ø     Can you make connections between your own drama & that of a wider culture, including TV drama?

Creating

Ø     Can you respond to a wide range of texts?

Ø     Can you experiment with original & different ways that feelings & responses can be presented?

Ø     Can you challenge the ideas of others sensitively?

Ø     Can you contribute appropriate ideas & extend those of others?

Ø     Can you make effective contribution to the writing of an imaginative short script?

Ø     Can you work in a variety of small groups?

Ø     Can you show an understanding of how dramatic signs/symbols can be used to communicate meaning?

Performing

Ø     Can you contribute to the performance of a unified piece of work?

Ø     Can you show commitment to role/character?

Ø     Can you communicate convincing character; effective use of spoken(signed) words, movement, gesture in a short scripted play by a professional playwright?

Ø     Can you apply different ideas, communicate mood, atmosphere in devised/scripted performances?

Ø     Can you communicate the intentions of the playwright through effective use & thinking, eg, timing, space, language?

Responding

Ø     Can you talk about ways in which drama did or did not engage the feelings and thinking of those watching?

Ø     Can you, during the devising process reflect on work & use responses to develop it further?

Ø     Can you reflect on whether the effects used were pertinent for the content of the drama?

Ø     Can you explain the characteristics of different types of drama?

Ø     Creating

Ø     Can you collaborate, modify, adapt ideas as a result of reflection, research & experiment?

Ø     Can you show an understanding of the rehearsal process?

Ø     Can you initiate & respond to ideas?

Ø     Can you participate in the organisation & direction of drama for a specific purpose & audience?

Ø     Can you interpret, shape & structure in imaginative ways?

Ø     Can you use a range of forms & styles?

Ø     Can you work in the abstract?

Ø     Can you employ different concepts, using language, space, sound, gesture, text form?

Performing

Ø     Can you work responsibly & sensitively with others?

Ø     Can you maintain roles/responsibilities in a short independently devised piece for another class?

Ø     Can you participate effectively in full length plays, showing clear, imaginative interpretation of character, situation & narrative?

Ø     Can you use a range of technical & other sound resources to enhance performances?

Ø     Can you perform drama which demonstrates understanding of relationship between form & content?

Responding

Ø     Can you analyse how plots & characters are portrayed in different  dramas using appropriate terminology?

Ø     Can you identify, analyse how effects were achieved, say how they were intended & whether they were successful?

Ø     Can you talk about & explain preferences making connections with different forms & cultural traditions?

Creating

Ø     Can you research & record the psychology & context of characters?

Ø     Can you experiment with how these can be realised/visualised in performance?

Ø     Can you solve problems in devising?

Ø     Can you offer solutions which demonstrate awareness of the skills of the group?

Ø     Can you independently make use of different techniques, skills, concepts & conventions when devising, interpreting, directing plays?

Ø     Can you explore, using a range of genres, forms, styles in shaping & recording ideas for producing devised work?

Performing

Ø     Can you work effectively with others, with increased independence in performing plays for different purposes/audiences?

Ø     Can you show insight into narrative, motivation & behaviour of characters through effective use of drama skills, techniques, concepts?

Ø     Can you perform drama which shows good understanding that form can be used in original ways?

Ø     Can you use a range of techniques, skills, conventions?

Ø     Can you apply dramatic concepts to communicate meaning in appropriate ways with insight?

Responding

Ø     Can you use language, conventions of theatre when evaluating professional/amateur productions?

Ø     Can you use appropriate language & identify why & how work could be improved?

Ø     Can you critically evaluate how organisation & structure contribute to dramatic effect?

Ø     Can you recognise the work of a range of playwrights / theatre artists?