London Drama News

National Drama also has developed Resources During Lockdown.

Like London Drama, National Drama has also developed support materials for Drama teachers during this lockdown period.
There is a page on their website at Resources and they have a Resources Folder for sahring resources at Resource Folder.
Take care at this difficult time!

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Drama Support

Drama Job Vacancies

Current Drama jobs here.
To advertise your Drama job please contact
londondrama1@gmail.com

Borough Drama

Is your borough organised for Drama? Does it provide INSET or CPD courses? London Drama can support the development of initiatives and programmes for drama in boroughs. Please contact us if you would like more information.
Find out more

School Support

If your school would like to develop drama training please contact us. We will advise on or provide active resourcing.

Youth Theatres

Get Into Theatre helps you find out about career opportunities, work experience, training and much more.

Publications

Order in the Chaos
by Danielle Mackenzie

This new practical resource book by Danielle Mackenzie published by London Drama provides teachers with seven exciting units of work and materials designed for the GCSE Edexcel Drama Examintion, New Specification, helping to organise "Order" in all that potential "Chaos".

Published as a downloadable E-Book.

More info and download here

London Drama Members!

Get 5% discount on all London Drama books at LD Books. (Log in required.) Applies also to members of National Drama and English Speaking Board. Find out more

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Edexcel Drama for GCSE Second Edition (Members) £18.99 £18.04

Endorsed by Edexcel, this new edition of the best-selling textbook by Jos Leeder retains its accessible appeal whilst being up to date and in line with the 2009 Edexcel GCSE Drama Specification.

Covering all aspects of the course, GCSE Drama for Edexcel (Second Edition) continues to provide a host of opportunities for students to develop a creative and imaginative approach to making and studying theatre. As well as providing students with a knowledge and understanding of Drama and theatre within a social, cultural and historical context, this new edition includes:

More activities
Exam practice materials
Guidance on practical tasks
Examiner tips
Practitioner pages
Material in full colour

The textbook is fully supported by a comprehensive Teacher Resource.

New edition of a best-selling textbook
Endorsed by Edexcel and fully revised in line with the 2009 specification
Contains a wealth of new features such as exam practice, guidance on practical tasks, practitioner pages and examiner hints and tips
Supported by a teacher resource containing teaching notes, links to the Specification, exemplar student responses, sample scripts, worksheets and performance check lists.

Table of Contents:

Drama Exploration
Exploring Play Texts
Missing Dan Nolan
Response to Live Performance
Drama Performance
Performance Support

About the Author(s):
Jos Leeder began his career as a teacher of drama in various high schools. He is currently the County Adviser for Drama and Dance in Suffolk. Jos has extensive examining experience. He was for a number of years a Senior Examiner for GCSE Drama. With Ken Taylor, Jos authored the textbook GCSE Drama for Edexcel (First Edition) in 2001. In addition to his work as an adviser and examiner, Jos is also an associate lecturer for Anglia Ruskin University.

Recommended products

GCSE Bitesize Drama (Members) (£9.99 £9.49)
by Andy Kempe
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ISBN: 978-1406654387
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Edexcel GCSE Drama Study Guide (Members) (£15.95 £15.15)
by Kelly McManus and Andrew Pullen
Rhinegold Education
ISBN: 978-1-906178-80-2
more info

The GCSE Drama Coursebook (Members) (£16.99 £16.14)
by Andy Kempe
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ISBN: 978-0-7487-6773-1
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Coming up

Our free CPD events are being organised in partnership with National Drama via Eventbrite - access them here.

In addition, we have some resources to support you via our e-news at Resources and our home page centre panel features our latest free online event

Surveys

Drama Networks Survey
Are you in an active local network for drama teachers? Would you like to be? Take the LD Drama Network Survey here

GCSE Drama Take Up Survey
Has EBacc undermined GCSE Drama take up? Take the survey here.

Courses Survey
We are always keen to hear what courses we can run for you. Please take our Courses survey here.

Mapping Drama Practice
Take the Survey of Drama Practice: it will only take a minute

Organisations

STEP is a borough-wide partnership linking the theatre community and education and youth sector in the London Borough of Southwark. STEP aims to equalise, extend and deepen the theatre and drama experience of all young people living in Southwark through the development of strategic partnerships between schools, youth and community groups and theatres and performing arts organisations. STEP's objective is to work closely with Southwark schools, youth and community groups and theatres and performing arts organisations to develop creative approaches to learning and provide innovative projects which stimulate children and young people's personal development and contribute to their educational attainment.
Find out more here.