Welcome to the Performing and Creative Arts faculty. Please use the tabs on the left to view what each subject has to offer.
Key stage 3 Curriculum
Year 7
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Title |
Description |
| Introduction to Drama | Students will learn all of the key skills needed to create a successful piece of drama |
| Script | Students will read and explore a script which is based around the theme of bullying and school |
| Script | Students will read and explore a script which is based around the theme of bullying and school |
| Roald Dahl | Students will have fun creating characters from some of Roald Dahl’s favourite books |
| Mime | Students will put their non-verbal communication skills to the test by creating mime sequences |
Year 8
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Title |
Description |
| Teenage issues | Students will explore the negative effects of smoking, drink driving, energy drinks and bullying |
| Mask | Students will get the opportunity to work with Professional Trestle Theatre Masks |
| Crime | Students will go into role as CSI officers and explore the reasons people commit crimes |
| Physical Theatre | Students will learn how to act through their bodies and movement |
| Hillsborough Disaster | Students will learn about the disaster and learn how to empathise with real life characters |
| Soap Opera | Students will get to act out their favourite television soaps |
Year 9
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Title |
Description |
| Silent Movies | Students will explore famous silent movie actors such as Laurel and Hardy and Charlie Chaplin |
| Genre | Students will be able to create performances from their favourite genre |
| Gun Crime | Students will learn the negative effects of guns and will use real-life stories as inspiration |
| Fame | Students can act out their favourite reality television shows |
| Racism | Students will learn about racial segregation and how this still affects Britain today |
| Superb, Spontaneous Scripts | Students will learn how to bring a script to life preparing them for Drama at key stage 4 |
Key Stage 4 Curriculum
Year 10
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Title |
Description |
| Devising | Students will be given some stimulus and they will devise their own performance ready to show to a live audience |
| Explorative Strategies and Theatre Practitioners | Students will learn about different theatre practitioners within the performing industry and create short performances within them styles |
| Terror Events | Students will look at different events that have changed the world |
| Script | Students will explore and act out scenes from a comedy play |
| Unit 2 – workshop preparation | Students will start to prepare for doing their first assessed units |
| Unit 2 – workshop | Students will take part in their first assessed unit which is a 6 hour drama workshop |
Year 11
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Title |
Description |
| Unit 2 – written | Students will complete written work linked to the 6 hour drama workshop |
| Woman in Black | Students will visit a theatre and see a production of Woman in Black |
| Unit 1 – Terror Events | Students will take part in their second assessed unit which is a 6 hour workshop |
| Unit 1 – written | Students will complete written work linked to the 6 hour drama workshop |
| Unit 3 | Students will work as a group to devise their own performance |
| Unit 3 | Students will perform their work to an examiner |
Key Stage 3 Curriculum
Year 7 Curriculum
- Formal elements and observed drawing
- How the formal elements line tone and texture can communicate feelings and ideas
- Use of found objects links to how objects can tell a story
- Building confidence in own work
- Literacy, poems, evaluating describing, use of subject terms and language
- Use of materials and techniques
- How artists use scale and viewpoints; looking through, in, above. Bugs eye view how things change as we grow
- Wet and dry materials
- Introduction to colour
- Natural and man-made forms
- Other cultures differences and similarities
- Aboriginal art, maps, routes link back to story telling
- Colour mixing choosing materials and techniques, team work skills
- Surrealist environments
- Independent research
- Landscape, seascape objects, dreams, composition, scale
- 3d landscapes
- Making links with prior learning
Year 8 Curriculum
- Local environment, community involvement
- Working to a brief, research and planning.
- Work of other artists from the locality , how artists make a living
- Self-portraits and masks
- A moment in time, expression
- Other artists work Munch, Picasso, Tracey Emin, Gabo
- Material exploration, taking risks
- Figurative and nonfigurative
- Drawing from memory and observation
- Taking 2 dimensional drawing in to 3 dimensional work
- Oriental Treasures celebration
- How artists are inspired by other cultures.
- Formal elements
- Developing own responses
- Celebration of an Artist
- Focus on research; selecting information, materials, techniques
- Making choices, sharing and presenting
Year 9 Curriculum
- Environments
- Trash and treasure, flotsam and jetsam
- Art from recycled materials
- Personal response
- Natural Form
- How natural form inspires Art and Design
- Looking at the work of others; Gaudi William Morris , Andy Goldsworthy
- Use of materials and techniques
- Formal elements
- Making comparisons
- Research for design
- Evaluation of design process
- Presentation techniques
- Design and making; 2D and 3D
- Sustaining an idea
- Justifying and creating
- Pop Art Youth culture
- Use of digital Art
- How artists sell to an audience
- Personal likes
- Using research to create a personal 2D response to Pop Art
- 3D design and making based on Pop Art and youth culture
- Exploring scale
- Other 3D artists e.g. Gormley, Claus Oldenburg
- Links to locality; Bottle of notes
Key stage 4 Curriculum
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BTEC ART FIRST AWARD |
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YEAR 1 |
YEAR 2 |
| UNIT 1 Introduction to specialist materialsPaint, batik, silk painting, felt making, ceramics, inks and moreTheme Vintage Travel.Links with Local businesses. | UNIT 4 3D Visual StudiesMod roc, fabric manipulation, clay and recycled materials.Theme Gaudi and natural formLooking further afield |
| UNIT3 2D visual StudiesPencil, paint, ink, charcoal, collage and print to name but a fewTheme Local environmentsLinks with Local Galleries | Unit 2 External set briefFinal project |
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Work of other Arts and crafts people and exhibiting work runs throughout |
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Key Concepts of Dance
- Choreography
- Performance
- Appreciation
Key stage 3
Year 7
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Title |
Description |
| Introduction to Dance | Students will learn all key skills needed in choreography and apply these to their own group dance. |
| Action Poems | Students will explore poetry as a stimulus for creating movement. |
| Machines | Students will look at how parts of a machine and how they move and will create movement to represent. |
| China | Students will explore Chinese culture and Tai Chi. |
| Secret Agents | Students will apply their choreographic skills to the theme of Secret Agents. |
Year 8
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Title |
Description |
| Rock ‘n’ Roll | Students will experience Rock ‘n’ Roll dance technique working predominately in pairs. |
| Introduction to Street Dance | Students will have a practical introduction to the different styles within street dance and the key concepts within. |
| Props | Students work with a variety of props in choreography. |
| Contact Improvisation | Students will begin to develop their understating of contact work and learn basic counter balances and lifts. |
| Stomp | Students will work with props to create rhythms and movement s and develop into group pieces. |
| Capoeira | Students will explore the Brazilian dance/martial art (non-contact) of Capoeira. |
Year 9
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Title |
Description |
| Street Dance | Students will develop their prior knowledge of street dance and learn more complex material and choreographic processes. |
| War | Students will use the idea of war as a stimulus to create and develop dances. |
| Olympics | Students will explore chance techniques using the Olympics as a stimulus. |
| Swansong | Students will look at the professional work ‘Swansong’ and use the key concepts as a stimulus to create a group piece. |
| Jazz | Students will experience Jazz technique and develop their performance skills. |
| Students will build on their prior experiences of contact work, look at a range of professional works and learn repertoire. |
Key stage 4
BTEC Dance
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Title |
Description |
| Unit 1 – Individual Showcase | Students will create solo choreographies for an audition scenario. |
| Unit 2 – Preparation, Performance, Production | Students will develop a performance piece as a member of a dance company. |
| Unit 4 – Dance Skills | Students will develop their performance skills in a variety of styles and contexts. |
Key stage 4 Curriculum
Year 10
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Title |
Description |
| Development of skills. | Students will be instructed in the basic use of digital cameras, equipment and Adobe Photoshop software. |
| Exploring a theme. | Students will learn how to explore a theme using lens based media and select and present their work in in the form of sketchbooks and portfolios of work. |
| History of photography. | Students will look at the history of photography from its beginnings to the present day. |
| Building a portfolio. | Students will explore a range of projects linking to different photographic techniques, styles and creative practitioners. Contextual research will be used to further develop knowledge and skills. |
Year 11
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Title |
Description |
| Developing a portfolio | Students will develop work around internally set projects developed from personal and/or given starting points. |
| Preparation for externally set assignment. | Students will prepare for, and develop ideas to create work for an externally set assignment. |
| Externally set assignment. | Students will be required to create work independently working to the requirements of the externally set assignment (10 hours). |
| Presentation/exhibition of work. | Students will present their portfolios and final work. |
Enrichment Timetable
Events
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Students from Drama Youth Theatre put on their most exciting production ever. There were oompa loompas, chocolate bars, sweets and the unforgettable Mr Wonka.
GCSE Drama Performances
Students invited their parents and teachers to come and see what they have to do for their GCSE Drama exam. The students worked hard to devise their own performances about real and sensitive issues. Some chose to focus on the 9/11 attacks, some on the stigma attached to mental health and some on the Winterbourne View Carehome scandal which saw the mistreatment of so many.
The Witches
Students put their bald caps and wigs on to bring us a performance of Roald Dahls the witches. There were mice, special potions and the Grand High Witch herself!
The Tempest
The drama youth theatre had the fantastic opportunity to be involved in the Shakespeare Schools Festival. They had to go to technical rehearsals and learn how to bring Shakespeare to the stage. They then had the fantastic opportunity of performing the Tempest at the Middlesbrough Little Theatre to a real paying audience.
Keep the Change
Students decided to set up a restaurant and invited the audience to be a part of that. They were flirty French waiters, crusty baguettes and an Heimlich manoeuvre!
Do you want a biscuit with that?
Freebrough’s first drama youth theatre production, based around our favourite drink; tea!
Upcoming Events
Year 8 Girls Immunisations
Year 8 girls HPV immunisations
5 May 2015
Year 10 Parents Evening
Year 10 Parents Evening
4 pm - 6 pm 20 May 2015
Early Transition Evening
Year 6 parents and students
4 pm - 6 pm 24 June 2015
Year 7 Uniform Collection Day
New Year 7 students can collect their uniform orders from the Academy
Friday 21 August from 10.00 am until 2.30 pm