Subject:

DRAMA – Year 3

Teacher:

Week 1                                                1 hour

Work previously covered:

Learning Objective(s):

• To gain confidence in a new group setting
• To speak out in a confident and loud voice
• Choose a simple poem of their choice Appendix 1:

Introduction:

Warm up

10 mins

• Register: Replying in a loud voice – ‘Good morning Mr/Miss/Mrs….’
• Expectations of class and plan for term chat. Having fun, learning some poems to perform in front of everyone!! Practice our ‘articulation’ Appendix 2: (explain and demonstrate) working on our ‘voice projection’

Main part of the lesson:

35 mins

• What did you do over the summer – 2 minutes to think about .. The most scary, exciting, dangerous, adventurous, fun, most laugh, they have to start with “The most ‘Scary’/’exciting’ etc. thing I did in the summer holidays was …..
• Different sorts of ‘getting to know you’ circle games – ‘Pass the clap’ Clap passed around the circle 2 claps reverses the order. ‘Circle story’ … ‘and then’: Telling a story around the circle each child adding an extra line
• Give out and run through: practice 1 for next week – take home choice of initial poems – see Appendix 1:

Plenary: Warm down 10 mins