PRIMARY DRAMA IDEAS
Here you can find a selection of articles, tips and techniques for teaching drama in primary classrooms.
5 Creative Drama Ideas For Your Classroom
Drama uses the greatest resource that teachers have available to them – children’s imagination. Creative play is a natural part
Bringing Fairy Tales to Life through Drama
Ways to develop fairy and folk tales into rehearsed performances, improvisations, tableaux and oral storytelling.
Bullying – Exploring Issues Through Drama
Using drama to explore bullying issues, giving pupils the opportunity to try out anti-bullying strategies.
Cinderella – Listen To Me – Restorative Justice (5-11 years)
Explore bullying issues through the story of Cinderella using drama, writing and restorative justice techniques
Drama Across the Curriculum
Drama strategies can be used as everyday teaching tools for a wide range of subjects. (Extract from 'Learning Through Drama
Drama For Writing
Drama provides children with a meaningful and immediate reason for writing.
Keeping Control in the Drama Lesson
Lead productive drama sessions where all pupils happily learn to express themselves.
Key Stage 1 Drama Lesson Ideas
A dozen fabulous ideas and helpful books for teaching drama at key stage one.
Key Stage 2 Drama Lesson Ideas
12 brilliant ideas, games, lesson ideas and practical books for teaching drama at key stage two (5-12 years).
Make your own frog and toad puppets
Norwich Puppet Theatre teach you to make a toad puppet
Teaching Literacy Through Drama
Drama is a close ally in the development of literacy, especially speaking and listening.
The King’s Sentence – a world without words
Lesson plan and original story for KS2 exploring non-verbal communication through gesture and sign language.
The Musicians of Bremen Script
Sparkling play script of the Brothers Grimm tale for performance in schools
The Tiger Child Drama Unit (4-7 years)
A range of drama and storytelling activities based on a traditional Indian folk-tale for KS1 and reception.
Why Teach Drama to Primary School Children?
Children's natural tendency towards make-believe play can be utilised at school through structured play and drama.