Drama Curriculum
Expressive Arts Curriculum at Primary
At SBS, Drama, Music and Art are taught from FS1 through Year 6, providing children with rich opportunities to develop imagination, confidence, and skills that prepare them for future success. Throughout the year, students enhance their oracy, public speaking and performance abilities while deepening their understanding of class texts and thematic learning. Our cross-circular, theme-based approach allows students to apply their creative skills across all subjects, bringing learning to life in meaningful and engaging ways.
Drama encourages students to express themselves, collaborate with peers and develop confidence through performance, devising, and role play. They explore storytelling, character, and emotion, gaining skills that enhance both academic and personal growth.
Jessica Phillips
Drama Teacher and LAMDA Teacher
Music at SBS is delivered through an integrated, practical, and child-led approach. Students explore, create, and perform music while developing key musical skills. Lessons combine listening and appraising with activities such as playing melodies, accompaniments, composing, and performing, allowing musical understanding to grow progressively and creatively.
Claire Hammond
Primary Music Teacher
Linsey Rae
Secondary Music Teacher
Art provides children with the chance to experiment, invent, and create their own works using a variety of materials. Students develop skills in drawing, painting, sculpting, and other art, craft and design techniques. Through stimulating activities, pupils learn to appreciate colour, texture, tone, line, shape, form, and space, gaining a deep understanding of how these elements are used across all areas of visual art.
Our Drama, Music, and Art leaders play a key role in bringing school events to life. From Productions to Jingle Mingle and International Day, they lead, perform, and create. Developing leadership, teamwork, and creativity while making a real impact on the school community.
Caitlin Lynch
Primary Art Teacher
Amy Moore
Secondary Art Teacher
Charlotte Halsall
Secondary Art Teacher
Safa British School are an official LAMDA Exam Centre. LAMDA examinations are designed to develop life skills, such as clear communication, self-confidence and teamwork, through the creative platforms of Drama and Literature.
At SBS we offer Acting, Public Speaking and Verse and Prose from Years 7-13, these exams offer students the opportunity to improve self-expression, strengthen memory and have fun. Level Three Qualifications (Grades 6 and Up) are included in the UCAS Tariff. Meaning if students pass these exams they can claim points to help them with University entry in the UK.
KS3 Drama
At Safa British School, KS3 Drama offers an exciting and immersive experience that nurtures creativity, confidence and technical skill. Our students explore a wide range of units designed to develop their understanding of theatre in all its forms.
Curriculum Includes:
- Hands-on experience in Acting for Camera, creating, directing, filming and editing
- Stage Combat and Physical Theatre
- Set Design
At KS3 Drama, every student has the chance to perform, create and shine - developing skills and confidence that last a lifetime.
KS3: Music
The KS3 Music curriculum provides students with a broad, practical, and creative introduction to performing, composing and listening. Through a range of engaging projects, students develeop core musical skills and an understaning of how music functions across different styles, cultures and contexts.
Across all three years, students gain confience as performers, creativity as composers, and awareness as listeners. They also develop transferable skills such as teamwork, focus, problem-solving, and communication, forming a strong foundation for GCSE Music and lifelong musical engagement.
CMA Music Tuition – USE PICTURE OF CMA ATTACHED
At SBS, our students have the opportunity to learn from CMA, our specialist music tuition team. CMA tutors bring expertise and enthusiasm to teaching singing, keyboards, guitar, drums and strings. Helping students develop their musical skills and confidence.
Tune Up Tuesday
Tune Up Tuesdays give Primary and Secondary students a special opportunity to perform at the start of the school day. This fortnightly event is a wonderful way to celebrate creativity and talent across the school, allowing students to showcse their musical, dramatic and performance skills in front of their peers.
KS4 Drama
GCSE Drama is taught as a modular two-year course. During the course, you will have the opportunity to develop your performance skills under the guidance of your teachers. You will also study one set text and review a live piece of theatre.
The GCSE Drama Course is broken into three components:
- Two practical performance examinations
- One writing examination
KS4 Music
GCSE Music develops students practical and analytical musicianship through performing, composing and listening. The course builds on existing musical skills while encouraging creativity, confidence, and critical understanding.
GCSE Music provides a strong foundation in performance, composition, and musical analysis while fostering broader skills essential for success both within and beyond the classroom.
GCSE Handbook for more informationSchool Productions
Each year, all students from FS1 to Year 4 take part in a whole year-group performance, proudly presented to parents throughout the year. As they progress to Years 5 and 6, students have the opportunity to audition for larger-scale productions, taking on roles both on stage and behind the scenes.
Our Secondary school production gives students from Year 7 onwards the opportunity to collaborate with peers across the school, whether on stage or behind the scenes. Beyond rehearsing and performing, students develop a wide range of transferable skills that extend far beyond the stage.
Each year, our Performing Arts team stage a large-scale musical from Legally Blonde, School of Rock to High School Musical Jr.
ECA’s
- Primary Production
- Secondary Production
- LAMDA
- Year 7 Theatre Company
- School Choir
- Rock Band
- Prop and Design Making