Performing arts/drama

The drama department has one subject specialist who teaches in a large drama space.

Drama at Philips High School is a predominately practical subject. Students experience a curriculum that equips them with both knowledge and skills of creating and performing, but a curriculum that also aims to enhance students’ knowledge of history, literacy and culture.

As drama does not have its own National Curriculum, our drama curriculum is heavily influenced by other National Curriculum frameworks. Students social, moral and cultural understanding is further enriched by topics and stimuli we use to inspire. Students reading and inference skills will be enhanced via script texts we study and students’ knowledge of history is boosted via differing genres and styles of theatre explored and their appropriate context.

Drama is underpinned by a core sense of improving the vital life skills of all pupils such as; speaking and listening, team work and confidence.