Drama

Joint Head of Department: Ms S Stow, sstow@abbotshill.herts.sch.uk Mrs V Mackay, vmackay@abbotshill.herts.sch.uk

Subject Title Examination Board Qualification Subject Code Assessment Drama OCR GCSE J316 Non-Examination Assessment (written 30% and practical 30%): 60% of total GCSE Examination Assessment (written paper 1 hour 30 mins) 40% of total GCSE

NB Assessed written aspects of the course make up 70% of the total GCSE course

Subject Overview

GCSE Drama has been designed to be a practical, engaging and creative specification for pupils to study. It will provide opportunities to understand and create drama as a practical art form in which ideas and meaning are communicated to an audience through informed artistic choices. The main purpose of this qualification is to allow pupils to study drama in an academic setting, interrogating this art form and applying their knowledge and understanding to the process of creating and developing drama and to their own performance work.

Course Content

Component 01/02: Pupils will research and explore a stimulus, work collaboratively and create their own devised drama. They will complete a portfolio of evidence during the devising process; will perform in a final performance and write an evaluation of their work.

Component 03: Pupils develop and apply theatrical skills in acting or design by presenting a showcase of two extracts from a performance text. They will complete a concept pro-forma describing their research on the text and their artistic intention for the performance.

Component 04: This component has two sections: The study of a performance text and the development of drama in performance in Section A and an evaluation of a live production in Section B. This component is assessed through a written exam at the end of the course.

Further Information

www.ocr.org.uk drama@ocr.org.uk