Performing Arts
Performing Arts Teaching Staff
- Mrs A Joy: Curriculum Leader
- Ms L Davis: Music Teacher
- Miss W Tweedle: Dance Teacher
- Miss H Jeffrey: Drama Teacher
Introduction
The Performing Arts team at Oak Academy ensure that the arts are inclusive for all students, with regular opportunities for acting, dancing and music as well as roles for those who prefer to be behind the scenes. At Oak Academy we thrive on helping students build confidence and express themselves creatively in a safe, friendly and supportive environment.
Throughout Key Stage 3, the Performing Arts are taught on a rotation basis. All students access one Performing Arts lesson each week of either Dance, Drama, or Music. These are changed each term so that all students study each subject for two terms of the academic year.
In addition to weekly lessons there are regular extra-curricular opportunities for Performing Arts at Oak Academy at lunchtimes and after school.
Dance
KS4
BTEC TECH Level 2 Award in Performing Arts (Dance)
Component 1: Exploring the Performing Arts
By studying 3 professional works, students will:
- Explore performance styles
- Explore creative intentions and purposes
- Investigate how choreographers create their work
- Understand the choreographic processes involved
Component 2: Developing Skills and Techniques in the Performing Arts
Through classes and workshops students will:
- Develop their dance skills
- Reproduce existing professional repertoire
- Learn the development of dance techniques
- Apply these skills learnt through a live performance
Component 3: Responding to a brief
Students will build knowledge, skills and understanding that they have acquired and developed in components 1 and 2. Using these skills they will:
- Respond to a performance brief
- Work collaboratively as part of a group
- Create a workshop performance
- Be assessed through a live performance
Extra- Curricular Clubs – Learn a variety of styles including; Contemporary, Jazz, Street, Lyrical, Commercial, Body Conditioning and Technique for dancers
Oak Dance Company – Students get to experience what it is like to work in a professional dance company at industry level. Both the teacher and students collaborate together to create new and exciting pieces of work. These pieces are then performed outside of school for different events.
Drama
Year 10/11 GCSE Drama
On the AQA GCSE Drama course students complete 3 components. The first is a written exam which is taken in the Summer term of year 11 that consists of three main sections: Multiple choice, Set text focused questions and Live theatre review – in preparation for this students will go and visit a live piece of theatre in London.
The second component is devised performance where students will be given a range of stimuli in which they need to choose one and create a short performance based on it and alongside this students will complete a written drama log showing how they have developed their ideas, met their targets and an evaluation of the piece as a whole.
The final component is ‘Texts in Practice’ where the students study a play chosen by the teacher (recent texts being Blood Brothers, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time and Noughts and Crosses) and rehearse and develop their theatrical skills in 2 contrasting extracts which are then watched and marked by an external examiner.
Throughout these two years students will develop their understanding of how Drama is created and also develop their skills and techniques to present onstage.
Music
KS4
BTEC Tech Award Music Practice Music Practice (2022) | BTEC Tech Awards | Pearson qualifications
Explore Musical Products and Styles
Learn about different genres and styles of music including the socio-economic context they appeared, the fashions they inspired, and how a message is communicated through music. Use your knowledge of Musical Elements, Lyrics, and music production to analyse music. Write, Perform and produce music of different genres.
Musical Skills Development
Spend time developing your instrumental skills on your chosen instrument. Attend instrumental lessons, set yourself goals and evidence your progress. Gain knowledge about how to maintain and fix your instrument. Assessed by producing a portfolio of your learning.
Live Music Performance
Plan, develop, rehearse and perform, and reflect on a set of music for a Live Performance. Develop your skills playing as a group as well as your individual live performance skills.
Learn an instrument at OAK Academy – 20-minute lessons once a week provided by Absolute Music. We currently have a piano teacher, guitar and bass guitar teacher, and a drum teacher.