By the end of Foundation, students make and perform drama that communicates ideas and stories.
Students discuss characters and situations in drama they make, perform and view.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Foundation Level
In Foundation, students explore drama and learn about how they can make drama to communicate ideas and stories. They share their drama with peers and experience drama as audiences.
Students are introduced to processes that assist them to make drama about real and imagined situations. They learn...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
By the end of Level A, students participate in dramatic play. They react to aspects of drama they make, perform and view.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Level A
In Level A students are exposed to drama to assist them to attend to and explore the world around them with as much independence as possible. They experience how drama can represent the world and represent ideas about the world. They experience dance and are encouraged to use gestures and body...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
By the end Level B, students make and share drama through dramatic play and improvisation.
Students communicate likes and dislikes in response to elements of drama they make, perform and view.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Level B
In Level B, students experience and respond to drama. They explore how drama can represent the world and make drama to represent elements of the world. They share their drama with peers and experience drama as audiences.
Students experience different roles and situations related to real life and...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
By the end of Level C, students make and share simple drama that communicates an idea, feeling and/or experience.
Students communicate ideas about drama and reasons why people share drama by answering yes/no questions.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Level C
In Level C, students explore drama. They learn about how drama can represent the world and that they can make drama to represent their ideas about the world. They share their drama with peers and experience drama as audiences.
Students become aware of role and situation as they listen and respond...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
By the end of Level D, students make and share drama that communicates major elements of stories or experiences.
Students provide a simple explanation about the characteristics of drama they make, perform and view.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Level D
In Level D, students explore drama. They learn about how drama can represent the world and that they can make drama to represent their ideas about the world. They share their drama with peers and experience drama as audiences.
Students become aware of role and situation as they listen and respond...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
By the end of Level 2, students make and present drama using the elements of role, situation and focus in dramatic play and improvisation.
Students describe what happens in drama they make, perform and view. They identify some elements in drama and describe where and why there is drama.
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 1 and 2
By the end of Level 6, students use the elements of drama to shape character, voice and movement in improvisation, play-building and performances of devised and scripted drama for audiences.
Students explain how dramatic action and meaning is communicated in drama they make, perform and view. They...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 5 and 6
By the end of Level 8, students devise, interpret and perform drama. They manipulate the elements of drama, narrative and structure to control and communicate meaning. They apply different performance styles and conventions to convey status, relationships and intentions. They use performance skills...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 7 and 8
By the end of Level 4, students use relationships, tension, time and place and narrative structure when improvising and performing devised and scripted drama. They use performance skills to communicate ideas and create a sense of time and place in their drama.
Students describe and discuss similarities...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 3 and 4
By the end of Level 10, students develop and sustain different roles and characters to realise dramatic intentions and engage audiences. They perform devised and scripted drama in different forms, styles and performance spaces. They plan, direct, produce, rehearse and refine performances. They...
Level description | The Arts | Drama | Levels 9 and 10
In Levels 7 and 8, students make and respond to drama independently, and with their peers, teachers and communities.
Students build on their understanding of role, character and relationships. They use voice and movement to sustain character and situation. They use focus, tension, space and...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
In Levels 5 and 6, students continue to make, perform view devised and scripted drama, independently and collaboratively with their peers, teachers and communities.
Students develop character through voice and movement and extend their understanding and use of situation, focus, tension, space and...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
In Levels 9 and 10, students develop more sophisticated approaches to making and responding to drama independently, in small groups, and with their teachers and communities. They continue to explore drama as an art form through improvisation, scripted drama, rehearsal and performance.
Students...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
In Levels 1 and 2, students continue their exploration and learning about how ideas and stories can be imagined and communicated through drama. They improvise and create roles, characters and situations and learn about focus and identifying the main idea of the drama. They share their drama with...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
In Levels 3 and 4, students learn by making and responding to drama, independently and collaboratively, with their peers and teachers.
Through activities that focus on sharing and communicating, students extend their understanding of role and situation as they offer, accept and extend their ideas...
Level description | The Arts | Drama
