Class learning strand 6-8 yrs

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-

  1. Exploring and making drama 
  2. Reflecting on drama
  3. 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.