GCSE Performing Arts offers pupils the opportunity to develop as individuals; exploring ideas and issues to gain a fuller understanding of their world. Please be aware of the written requirements – to achieve in Performing Arts you need to be competent in analytical, evaluative writing as well as feel confident to develop performance or technical skills for examination. It is a challenging, yet rewarding subject, where you will have to dedicate time, effort and energy to succeed.

Qualification aims and objectives:

The aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to:

• apply knowledge and understanding when making, performing and responding to drama

• explore performance texts, understanding their social, cultural and historical context including the theatrical conventions of the period in which they were created

• develop a range of theatrical skills and apply them to create performances

• work collaboratively to generate, develop and communicate ideas

• develop as creative, effective, independent and reflective students able to make informed choices  in process and performance

• contribute as an individual to a theatrical performance

• reflect on and evaluate their own work and that of others

• develop an awareness and understanding of the roles and processes undertaken in contemporary  professional theatre practice

• adopt safe working practices.

Further skills developed in this qualification are:

• the ability to recognise and understand the roles and responsibilities of performer, designer and director

• the study and exploration of texts and extracts must include the relevant social, historical and cultural contexts

• the ability to analyse and evaluate their own work and the work of others

• the ability to understand how performance texts can be interpreted and performed.