Putney High School

Drama

"What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out?" Alfred Hitchcock  (English Film Director, 1899-1980)

The Drama profile has increased steadily over the last few years and is now a featured attraction of school life. In a typical year there are a variety of productions catering for different year group combinations.

There are also special events: this year we have already seen the musical Pickwick, which was a great success, and Year 12 have now formed their own performing company and they took part in the Shakespeare Youth Festival at the Albany Theatre in Deptford with a production of Much Ado About Nothing. Our sixth formers are adept and enthusiastic in running a plethora of drama clubs, house drama competitions, fashion shows and staff pantos (yes really!).

Key Stage 3

Drama has been added to the Technology Carousel in Year 9 so that all pupils will receive a double lesson of Drama per week for about eight weeks. This is in the spirit of a 'taster' for GCSE Drama.

GCSE

We follow the Edexcel specification: edexcel.org.uk/quals/gcse/drama/gcse/1699

Assessment of practical work makes up a massive 80% of the total marks, and there is NO written paper!! This makes it a popular choice – demanding in lots of ways, but always creative and fun.

AS and A2 Level

Again we follow the Edexcel syllabus:

www.edexcel.org.uk/quals/gce/drama/as/8113

www.edexcel.org.uk/quals/gce/drama/adv/9113

Although there is, as you would expect, more written assessment than for GCSE, workshops and performances of one sort or another still count for 55%, both at AS and A2 level. There is an exciting variety of material and approaches, with a combination of mutually dependent group work and individual responsibility steadily increasing in importance throughout the course

"A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships." (Gore Vidal American novelist and essayist b.1925)

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