A series of three videos offering guidance to non-specialist KS2 teachers on using simple classroom drama activities. The videos and accompanying notes and frameworks explore how drama activities can enrich a wide range of curriculum objectives. Watch the Introductory video.
The videos
1. Beginning a drama. collection
The first video aims to get teachers started with drama. The context explores bringing traditional stories alive through drama.
2. Continuing a drama. collection
The second video builds greater depth with the activities. The context is exploring Victorian childhoods, including working in service.
3. Concluding a drama. collection
The final video suggests strategies for bringing a drama to a close. The content is Ancient Egypt, including Tutankhamun.
Primary Drama Workshop
This series of three videos offers guidance on using simple classroom drama activities to non-specialist teachers at KS2. The videos and accompanying notes and frameworks aim to show how classroom drama can enrich a wide range of curriculum objectives and also how the drama activities included can be adapted and refined to explore any particular topic. The three videos are also accompanied by a short Introductory video, presented by drama workshop leader, Richard Sumitro, who also presents the three videos.
In the three videos you will see non-specialist teachers working with their classes to create dramas based on the three frameworks linked below. The three frameworks focus on the beginning, middle and end of a drama and develop in complexity across the three in terms of the strategies used to build the drama. In children aged 7 and 8 in Glasgow explore traditional stories and bring the story of Rumplestiltskin to life. In upper KS2 pupils in Leeds use drama to explore working as children during the Victorian era, including working as servants in a Manor House. In upper KS2 children in London explore the beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians, including taking on the roles of archaeologists to search for the tomb of a pharaoh in The Valley of the Kings. Each framework comprises three sections and each of the CPD videos focuses on the delivery of one of those sessions.
The aim is to provide teachers with the resources they need to build an effective drama with their class; so alongside the frameworks we have provided a variety of additional resources, including with further detail on the drama strategies included, which you can follow in as much - or as little - detail as you wish. Our frameworks are based on three specific topics; but the overall aim is to guide teachers towards using some of the strategies included to explore topics of their own choosing.
The Frameworks and Notes
The framework pdf documents include hyperlinks to the individual resources. For best performance it is strongly recommend that you download the framework pdf and then open it using a suitable program - such as Acrobat - rather than using the framework in your browser.
Drama activities exploring folk and fairy tales. Accompanies Film 1: Beginning a drama.
Exploring the KS2 history topic Victorian childhood. Accompanies Film 2: Continuing a drama.
Exploring the KS2 history topic Ancient Egypt. Accompanies Film 3: Concluding a drama.
Offers an overview of the content of the resources and more detail on the drama strategies included.
