Level 1
Developing Practical Knowledge in Drama (PK)
Students will explore elements and techniques of drama.
Developing Ideas in Drama (DI)
Students will contribute ideas and participate in drama, using personal experiences and imagination.
Communicating and Interpreting in Drama (CI)
Students will share drama through informal presentation and respond to ways in which drama tells stories and conveys ideas.
Understanding Drama in Context (UC)
Students will identify drama as part of everyday life and recognise that it serves a variety of purposes.
Learning Examples
- Develop and share a scene about a personal celebration (e.g., a
hakari, birthday, family gathering). Use facial expression, sounds,
and body movement to express feelings in the scene. Talk about features
of the scene that convey the sense of celebration. (PK, DI, CI, UC)
- Sustain a simple role in drama where the teacher is also in role
(e.g., the teacher's role may be that of a person who has a problem
with a pet, and the students, in role as experts in pet behaviour,
may ask questions, share information, and suggest solutions). (PK,
DI, CI)
- Talk about characters from stories and then, in groups, develop
and share freeze-frame images to represent specific moments from the
stories. Talk about how the images convey feelings and information.
(PK, DI, CI)
- Respond to a live or recorded drama performance with questions or
comments. Express ideas and feelings about the drama through drawing,
waiata, movement, or writing. (CI)
- Make body shapes in pairs or groups to express contrasting moods,
ideas, or relationships in a competitive event (e.g., winning and
losing, excitement and nervousness). Share the results as part of
a class TV news show. (PK, DI, CI, UC)
- Add movement, voice, and sound effects to enhance the mood of a
poem or story. (PK, DI)
- Select a prop or costume and work with it to take on a role it suggests.
View others' roles and comment on their use of props and costumes.
(PK, DI, CI)
- Use movement and voice to explore the thoughts and feelings of a
familiar storybook character responding to a variety of situations.
(PK, DI)
- Collect, display, and label a selection of pictures that show drama
occurring in a variety of situations (e.g., a theatre, local festival,
puppet show, television programme). (UC)
- Using the sea as a theme, create an environment using body shape and movement. In groups, move as creatures through the environment. (PK, DI)
