The teaching of Drama at New Charter Academy additionally promotes the following opportunities for its students:

• It encourages self-confidence
• It allows students to explore a range of emotions in a safe environment.
• Through drama, students can work out their own points of view and test them against others. This can help the learning of the essential transferable skill sets of effective group work skills and negotiation skills such as

• Sharing experience and knowledge;
• Negotiation;
• Organisation and problem solving;
• Selection and evaluation;
• Awareness of the self and role in society;
• Sensitivity and tolerance;

• An awareness of human relationships.
• To develop concentration and listening skills
• To develop oral communication skills:

• articulation;
• fluency;
• projection;
• focus and intention;
• clarity and presentation.
• To develop non-verbal communication skills:
  • movement and use of space;
  • facial / physical expression.

• It gives students confidence in solving problems.
• By participating in drama, students are learning actively. The learning experience is therefore more easily held in the memory.
• There are no special skills or difficult concepts that have to be learned to take an active part in drama. It is therefore accessible to all children, regardless of academic ability.
• An understanding of values.
• Physical and perceptual skills.
• Communication of ideas.
• Opportunities for leadership.
• Opportunities to work as part of a team.
• Drama as a learning tool and its transferable skill value.
• Critical appraisal skills of appreciation and evaluation.
• Opportunities to create performance.
• Appreciation of text in a working context.
• Lasting enjoyment of drama.

Overall, Drama enhances a pupil’s spiritual, moral, social and cultural development, as well as making a significant contribution to a students speaking and listening development.