Drama for the Terrified.

Cross-Curricular Active and Dramatic

Techniques.

Maths is terrifying for me.

If you have 6 pencils and I have 10 apples, how many pancakes will fit on the roof?

Purple. Because aliens don’t wear hats…

Drama: Process led…

FACTS

• Stimulus• Starting

point• Inspiration

APPLICATION

• Creative Thinking

• Discussion• Process

RESPONSE

• Result• Effects• LEARNING

Drama helps our pupils to not only apply their learning but also to consider human responses.

Drama: Perpetual Assessment

Peer Assessment

Class Discussion

Review & Awareness of

Success Criteria

Drama: The Universal Subject

MFL – Role Play, Hot – Seating.

English – Analysis of texts, Shakespeare etc.

History – What happened? HOW? WHY? EFFECT.

Geography – The Plight of the Amazonian Tribesmen – Hot Seating.

Drama: The Universal Subject

History – WWI

The immediate cause was the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, the archduke of Austria-Hungary. His death at the hands of Gavrilo Princip – a Serbian nationalist with ties to the secretive military group known as the Black Hand – propelled the major European military powers towards war.

FREEZE - FRAMES

Drama: The Universal Subject

Geography

The Awá are one of only two nomadic hunter-gathering tribes left in the Amazon. According to Survival, they are now the world's most threatened tribe, assailed by gunmen, loggers and hostile settler farmers.

HOT-SEATING

Drama: The Universal Subject

MFL

Interviewer: As-tu un petit boulot?

(Do you have a part-time job?)

Jean: Oui, je travaille le samedi dans un magasin de bricolage.

(Yes, on Saturdays I work in a DIY store.)

ROLE-PLAY

Drama: The Universal Subject

EAL

Jack and Jill went up the hill

To fetch a pail of waterJack fell down and broke

his crownAnd Jill came tumbling

after

Up Jack got and home did trot,

As fast as he could caper;And went to bed and bound

his headWith vinegar and brown

paper

MODELING &

NARRATION

Drama: The Universal Subject

ART

Creative Thinking

& Responses

ENGLISHImprovisation & Role Play

SCIENCEUse of movementICT

Practical

application – Role

Play

PHSCE & Well-Being

Whole School

MATHS?

Your turn…

In pairs or small groups – discuss how you could simply add some active & dramatic approaches to your subject

area.

…Maths

“When will I ever

need this?”

“What’s the point if

I’m not going to be

a Mathematician?”

“I’ve never used this since school…”

REAL LIFE MATHSRole-Play

FURTHER READING

Transforming Teaching and

Learning with Active and Dramatic Approaches:

Engaging Students Across the Curriculum

By Brian Edmiston

Drama for the Terrified.

Cross-Curricular Active and Dramatic

Techniques.