DRAMA
The Head of Drama teaches everyone in the school. Each child has Curriculum Drama once a week or once every other week, depending upon their year group. There are many different Drama clubs in the after school activity programme. These include a Pre-Prep Drama Club, Junior Drama Club, a Senior Scholarship Group and the Chill Out Drama Club.
We have two main Prep School Productions every year: the Year 3 and 4 show, which is directed by their Form Tutors, and the Senior Prep School Production, which the children have to audition for and is directed by the Head of Drama. This is open to all children from Years 5 – 8. The Pre-Prep Drama Club performs a show directed by the Head of Drama in the Summer Term. The whole Pre-Prep perform shows directed by their class teachers and the Head of Pre-Prep.
Follow these links to read reports on some of the shows for 2008-9:
- Year 3 and 4 - The Wizard of Oz
- Years 5 to 8 - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Pre-Prep Drama Club - Peter Pan
Private LAMDA Tuition if offered as an extra activity. The children pay for this individually and come out of lessons once a week on a rota. They are led through an exam once a year and given the chance to perform their work in the end of term shows that take place regularly.
AIMS
Throughout the course of a child’s time here at St Aubyns, we aim to:
- Establish the Drama Class as a safe, secure and enjoyable space for each child to develop their creative ideas.
- Give each child the opportunity to regularly perform in front of others.
- Support each child to be able to speak clearly, loudly and with confidence in front of others both in the classroom and on stage.
- Develop a certain level of self confidence in each child so that when they leave St Aubyns they feel able to express their opinions and ideas with clarity and confidence.
- Develop each child’s listening skills so that they listen to others’ opinions with understanding, awareness and sensitivity to the feelings of others.
- By year 8, give each child the opportunity to be able to use the Sound and Lighting desks in the studio and make sure each child has a broad understanding of how to read a text, interpret it and stage it.