Staff article of special interest - Gail Knappett - Director of Drama Wow! What an exciting time to be promoted to Director of Whole School Drama. Just as the world is tentatively returning to some level of normal, we are finally being given the green light to allow our students to get up, out of their seats to be creative and to hopefully, start thinking about school performances. As a new department director in the school restructuring, I am really looking forward to building a whole school curriculum for Drama, to assist all our students to develop into creative and thoughtful students. However, as our students will still be in still be in classrooms for a few weeks, here are a few exercises that you can get the students stood up at their desks and doing: Actions – students can create an action for each section of a formula or for a key point to remind them of a particular fact. FACES : Students can explore facial expressions to depict characters/ key figures in certain situations. STANCE: Students can mime meeting a character, showing how they would stand/ posture etc in certain situations. Alphabet edit involves reading the letters of the alphabet aloud as a class or small group whilst completing the accompanying action- l left hand raise and r is a right hand raise and t is both arms together. A further variation (and complication) is to accompany the raise with an opposite leg raise! • Alphabet edit connects left and right brain, helps hand-eye co-ordination and will improve visual, auditory and kinesthetic ability. • ABCDEFGHIJKL • Ltrrttllrttr • MNOPQRSTUVWX • Llttlrtrrtll • YZ • Lr
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