Drama

DRAMA PRIMARY

Primary Drama has been a lot of fun this year, with students learning about everything from Greek Theatre to scripts about the Great Galveston Hurricane. I have seen students being creative, collaborative and enthusiastic in lessons, on a regular basis and a great deal of high quality work has been produced as a result! Outside of curriculum time, we have also seen a great many students joining enrichment activities.

We have had Drama clubs in FS and Key Stage 1, we have had thirteen Year 5 and 6 students pass their LAMDA Examinations, we have hosted an ISTA Festival, participated in Performing Arts Picnics and we have successfully performed our annual musical, Peter Pan Jr. Since online learning began, we have had to reimagine the way that we learn Drama and I have been so proud of the efforts and quality of work that has been submitted. Whether it was the Mime Artist Challenge, Performance Poetry, Musical Theatre Dance, Monologues, Stage Models or anything else, the performance videos that have been submitted have regularly entertained and impressed.

Peter Pan Jr

In November we shared our annual production with the school community. This year, students rehearsed and performed their version of Peter Pan Jr, the well known Disney musical. The 85 strong cast, was ably led by Gypsy Lonergan (Year 6) as Peter Pan, Naomi Mendonca (Year 5) as Wendy and Juan Sanchez (Year 6) as our very own Captain Hook. The audience thoroughly enjoyed the performance- almost as much as the students themselves enjoyed performing it!

DRAMA SECONDARY

Secondary students explored a range of genres at the beginning of the year, including Melodrama, Physical Theatre and Shakespearian Duologues. Students worked hard in lessons and collaborated well to produce excellent results! We also saw our wonderful production of Romeo and Juliet take place, which you will read about later, we have held Performing Arts Picnics and we began our next production, Snow Dragons, which we are looking forward to completing next academic year. Additionally, we had a number of students who successfully completed their LAMDA examinations in January and are now working towards their next grade. Since moving to online learning, and developing new ways to collaborate and engage in group projects, students have completed performances inspired by Wayang Kulit (Year 7), Children’s Theatre (Year 8) and Contemporary Theatre Scripts (Year 9).

Mrs L Ansell