Overview of our learning strands in line with the strand units of the official primary school curriculum of Ireland.
6-8 yrs
STRAND – Drama to explore feelings, knowledge and ideas leading to understanding.
STRAND UNITS-
- Exploring and making drama
- Reflecting on drama
- Cooperating and communicating in making drama
Prerequisites for making drama
Content
The fictional lens
Creating a safe environment
Elements of drama
- Belief
- Time
- Role and character
- Tension
- Action
- Significance
- Place
- Genre
Strand Unit 1: Exploring and Making Drama
The child should be enabled to-
- Develop the instinct for make-believe play into drama.
- Move from dressing-up play into making dramas about characters.
- Adopt a role and change a role
- Develop the ability to play a role as an integral part of the action
- Use the ability to play at make-believe to enter fully into participation in drama.
- Use his/her emerging awareness of the differences in people in order to begin to develop an understanding of the relationship between role and character.
- Experience how the use of space and objects can help to create the reality of the make believe world eg; a chair represents a king’s or queen’s throne.
- Experience how context is built and a drama reality created through the use of space and objects.
- Imagine what is happening in a certain space if chairs and objects are arranged in a certain way.
- Experience how the fictional past and the desired fictional future influence the present dramatic action.
- Develop awareness of how he/she, as part of a group, helps to maintain focus in the dramatic action.
- Develop awareness of tension in the drama
Strand Unit 2: Reflecting on Drama
The child should be enabled to:
- Develop the ability to reflect on the action as it progresses and speculate on behaviour and outcomes.
- Experience the relationship between story, theme and life experience.
- Share insights gained while experiencing the drama.
- Use reflection on a particular dramatic action to create possible alternative courses for the action.
Strand Unit 3: Cooperating and Communicating in Making Drama.
The child should be enabled to:
- Develop the ability, out of role, to co-operate and communicate with others in order to shape the drama.
- Develop the ability, in role, to co-operate and communicate with others in helping to shape the drama.
- Develop fictional relationships through interaction with the other characters in small group or whole class scenes as the drama text is being made.
- Re-enact for others in the group a scene that has been made in simultaneous small group work.