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

5 Creative Drama Ideas For Your Classroom

Five incredible ways to explode your lessons using drama across the primary curriculum in any school or drama club!
Bringing Fairy Tales to Life through Drama

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

Bullying – Exploring Issues Through Drama

Using drama to explore bullying issues, giving pupils the opportunity to try out anti-bullying strategies.
Cinderella - Bullying (5-11 years)

Cinderella – Bullying (5-11 years)

Explore bullying issues through the story of Cinderella using drama, writing and restorative justice techniques
Alan Marsh and David Farmer

Creativity in Language Education

Brand-new two-week course exploring creative approaches to language teaching through art, drama, literature, music and storytelling.
Drama Across the Curriculum

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 For Writing

Drama provides children with a meaningful and immediate reason for writing.
Keeping Control in the Drama Lesson

Keeping Control in the Drama Lesson

Learn how to lead productive drama sessions where all pupils happily learn to express themselves.
key-stage-1-books

Key Stage 1 Drama Lesson Ideas

A dozen fabulous ideas and helpful books for teaching drama at key stage one.
pirates drama freeze

Key Stage Two Drama Lesson Ideas

Fabulous ideas, plans and helpful books for teaching drama at key stage two.
Make your own frog and toad puppets

Make your own frog and toad puppets

Norwich Puppet Theatre teach you to make a toad puppet
Teaching Literacy Through Drama

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

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

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)

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?

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.