Year 10 Drama 2025

Drama expresses human experience through a focus on role, action and tension played out in time and space. In Drama, students learn to structure these elements and use dramatic conventions, techniques and technologies to create imaginary worlds. Through purposeful play, both individual and collaborative, they discover how to link imagination, thought and feelings.  

As students work with drama techniques, they learn to use spoken and written language with increasing control and confidence, to communicate effectively using body language, movement and space. Through drama, students gain a deeper appreciation of their rich cultural heritage and language, and develop new methods of examining attitudes, behaviour and values. 

As students create and perform their own dramas they reflect on, and enrich, the cultural life of their schools, whānau and communities. Topics covered in this process will include, but are not limited to, the history and development of theatre, Shakespeare, Greek drama, creating a character, and movement and voice.