Learning opportunities, curriculum links
When exploring role, students work across the four strands of The Arts in the New Zealand Curriculum:
- Developing Practical Knowledge in Drama (PK)
- Developing Ideas in Drama (DI)
- Communicating and Interpreting in Drama (CI)
- Understanding Drama in Context (UC).
As year 9–13 students progress, they will be able to:
- research and play a role with different characteristics from their own by building on a clear sense of the role’s past and future (level 4)
- research and portray rounded characters with rich histories (level 5)
- compare the way in which others have portrayed similar roles in past and present cultures (level 5).
The New Zealand Curriculum Exemplars: The Arts (the drama matrix)
Students at levels 6, 7, and 8 will prepare and perform roles that are increasingly significant in terms of the size of the role and the context and will show an increasing awareness of and engagement in the process of developing a role.
For more detail on the key aspects of learning that inform progression in drama, refer to the exemplars in The Arts: Drama matrix.