“Theatre is a rehearsal for life.”
- Augusto Boal
Drama enables learners to explore, express, and understand the world through creativity, communication, and collaboration. It provides a powerful medium for developing empathy, confidence, and imagination whilst helping pupils to see multiple perspectives and to communicate ideas with clarity and conviction. Drama fosters not only performance skills but also critical thinking, emotional intelligence, and the ability to work purposefully with others.
Through subject-specific training sessions, trainees will develop secure knowledge of key dramatic concepts such as performance, characterisation, devising, and interpretation, while refining the pedagogical skills essential to high-quality drama teaching. You will also explore how to inspire creativity and confidence in all learners, using drama to deepen understanding across the curriculum and to nurture self-expression, teamwork, and resilience.
You will train within a dedicated Drama cohort throughout the year. This focused approach ensures that you develop the knowledge and skills necessary to teach across the full drama curriculum.
All secondary Drama trainees receive specialist subject training within their placement schools, supported by a dedicated and highly experienced subject mentor. Explicit links are made across teaching phases from KS2 to KS5, ensuring the content goes beyond the KS3 and KS4 National Curriculum to promote a deep understanding of dramatic form, creative process, and learner progression across all key stages.
My name is Heather Wragg, and I am delighted to be your Subject Lead for Drama. I am a Drama teacher at Hall Cross Academy in Doncaster, and I feel honoured to now give back and support the next generation of teachers to flourish. Alongside teaching, I have worked within an ITT Co-ordinator capacity and continue to develop my own practice through performing and directing at my local theatre. I am passionate about Drama and its place in education: the Drama classroom is a space where every student has a voice, where collaboration, creativity, and empathy thrive, and where young people gain the confidence and skills that extend far beyond the stage. I am really excited to work with you this year and to support you as you grow into confident, reflective Drama educators.
Our subject-focused sessions are designed to develop your confidence, deepen your subject knowledge, and strengthen your classroom practice, and together, we’ll explore the richness of the secondary Drama curriculum.