Drama Hub

Department & Exam Board

• Key Department Contacts:
  
  

  • Head of Department: catherine.woodcock@moultonschool.co.uk

  • Drama Teacher:  hannah.fotheringham@moultonschool.co.uk
    
    

• Exam Board- GCSE Drama: AQA Board

The Journey

There are three components to GCSE Drama: 

Component 1- Understanding Drama- 40%

Component 2- Devising Drama- 40%

Component 3- Texts in Practise- 20%

Context- In year 10 the students completed component 3- Devising Drama. This included an exam performance with coursework alongside. This component is worth 40% of their GCSE. Students may need to make improvements to their coursework during year 11 if they have not met their target grade for this component. They will be informed by their teacher if this is the case and they will need to do this during lunchtime or after school sessions.

Year 11- In practical lessons between September to January the main focus will be Component 3- Texts in Practise. This is 20% of their GCSE and includes the performance of two extracts from the same play. 

In theory lessons we will be focussing on Component 1- Understanding Drama, learning how to answer examination questions for their written exam. Questions will be based on our set text "Noughts and Crosses" by Malorie Blackman adapted into a play Dominic Cooke. 

In February Students will go and see "Curious Incident of The Dog in The Night- time" which they will analyse and evaluate for the last section of their exam paper for component one.

Presentation/Toolkit & Resources

Pupil Google Classroom Code / Links: 

11A: wvk343wc

11C: uirewy3h 

11D: 3s4kkqw6 

Recommended Revision Guides: Noughts and Crosses Play Guide for AQA GCSE Drama and a copy of "Noughts and Crosses" by Dominic Cooke- available on Sco Pay. 

The students have been issued with a homework board and folder attached below.

You will also find below three past GCSE papers from previous years.

📄 Year 11 HOMEWORK BOARD

📄 AQA 2024 Written paper.PDF

📄 AQA 2025 written paper.PDF

📄 AQA 2026 GCSE paper.pdf