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TheSchoolRun.com closure date

As we informed you a few months ago, TheSchoolRun has had to make the difficult decision to close due to financial pressures and the company has now ceased trading. We had hoped to keep our content available through a partnership with another educational provider, but this provider has since withdrawn from the agreement.

As a result, we now have to permanently close TheSchoolRun.com. However, to give subscribers time to download any content they’d like to keep, we will keep the website open until 31st July 2025. After this date, the site will be taken down and there will be no further access to any resources. We strongly encourage you to download and save any resources you think you may want to use in the future.

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You should already have received 16 primary school eBooks (worth £108.84) to download and keep. If you haven’t received these, please contact us at [email protected] before 31st July 2025, and we will send them to you.

We are very sorry that there is no way to continue offering access to resources and sincerely apologise for the inconvenience caused.

What your child learns in Key Stage 3 drama

Girls in fancy dress
Do you have a bright young star in the family? Find out what your child will be taught in drama lessons and how you can extend this learning at home.

In Key Stage 3 drama, your child will be given opportunities to explore, evaluate and challenge ideas and assumptions constructively. They must demonstrate creative thinking by making fresh connections between ideas.

During drama lessons, team work is encouraged, especially as students are often asked to take on different roles in organising, planning and sustaining discussions in a range of formal and informal contexts. They will need to be able to work in groups and to evaluative their own learning.

Lesson examples

Here’s what drama lessons might involve:

  • In year 7, children explore techniques for role play and develop strategies for anticipating, visualising and problem solving in different contexts. They work collaboratively on scripted and unscripted pieces and evaluate their own presentations and those of others.
  • Year 7 pupils brainstorm ways to use their voices to represent pride, abomination, fools and angels following the reading of a story looking at these concepts. They use drama activities by practising walking into the room and saying a proverb in different tones of voice, such as in a stern, pleading, exasperated, cold, shy or friendly manner.
     
  • In year 8, children learn to develop the techniques that enable them to create and sustain a variety of roles. And they learn to collaborate in, and evaluate, the presentation of dramatic performances, scripted and unscripted, which explore character, relationships and issues.
     
  • In year 9, children learn to recognise, evaluate and extend their skills. They use a range of dramatic techniques, including working in role, to explore issues, ideas and meanings. They develop and compare different interpretations of scenes or plays by Shakespeare or other dramatists and they begin to write critical evaluations of performances. In their own scripts and performances, they learn to convey action, character, atmosphere and tension.
     
  • In year 9, pupils may have the opportunity to be the director for class performances, advising on how the text should be read and instructing the actors.

Help your child at home

  • Discuss themes, plots, characters and storylines in TV programmes.
     
  • Your child will be studying at least one Shakespeare play. Look out for books and other resources that present the story in more accessible language to help your child understand what is taking place.