For when a member of staff is off or you just need a one-off, straightforward lesson

Students to do their own research into the life and career of an author of their choice. This will involve doing an in-depth analysis of a novel and a new chapter of a novel. They will need to include evidence of research and sources as well as prepare a presentation to the class. There is also a booklet for them to fill in with all their findings. They will be assessed on all the four criteria of the MYP Language and Literacy curriculum and it is easilty adaptable for Language Acquisition. I have done the unit with grade 7, but it should be fine with other grades.

Specifically aimed at the IB Middle Year Programme (MYP), though accessible through other teaching programmes, this is a unit that looks at Silent Movies and encourages students to create their own horror films.

Students write their own Christmas stories, based around traditional Christmas books, tales and poems. There are tasks for all four criteria of the MYP LL programme.

A scheme of work for KS3 aimed at introducing students to Musical Theatre as a genre.

Scheme of four lessons, focusing on time travel. The students will use dramatic skills to make performances about travelling in time.

A fun scheme of work for Year 7/8, giving the students the chance to act as detectives and creators of whodunnits. Intended to improve both their thinking and acting skills. My students kept coming up to me out of class, desperate for information on who killed Billy Rainbow. Lots of potential to adapt it further.

A series of lessons about the theories and methods of the practitioner Joan Littlewood

7 lessons about A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with socially distanced activities, for Key Stage 3 Drama lessons. Each lesson has a different focus, for example comedy and Shakespearean language.

A series of lessons based around the styles of Kneehigh, Paper Birds and Frantic assembly. These lessons will give Key Stage 3 students an insight into these theatre companies ahead of their GCSE Drama studies,

An MYP unit, aiming to get students to create their own character and a Brand to accompany this, e.g. through merchandise or songs etc. I have used this for my Grade 10 class and they really liked it, and created some ace work!

A scheme for year 8/9 about symbolism and abstract drama/physical theatre.