Drama
Vocabulary-building recall for KS3 Drama — the practitioners, techniques and terminology that make GCSE Drama feel familiar when it arrives. Three minutes a day on the foundational language of the subject.
Y7 · Y8 · Y9 · No board filter
84
Cards in the bank
Theatre practitioners, staging forms, vocal and physical skills, devising vocabulary, production design and script-reading terms — all written at the right level for Y7–Y9.
10
Topic areas
Covers every major strand of KS3 Drama: practitioners, performance spaces, performance skills, devising, production design, script study and subject vocabulary.
3
Minutes a day
Spaced repetition surfaces the cards students are about to forget. Not a lecture — a loop. The vocabulary that takes ten minutes to teach can take ten seconds a day to keep.
What's covered
The language of Drama. Ready for GCSE.
KS3 Drama is where students build the vocabulary and conceptual framework they'll need at GCSE. Practitioner names, staging terms and technique vocabulary are the foundations.
Performance Skills
- ✓Vocal skills — pitch, pace, pause
- ✓Physical skills — movement, gesture
- ✓Facial expression
- ✓Applying skills to character
Devising
- ✓The devising process
- ✓Working from a stimulus
- ✓Rehearsal techniques — hot-seating
- ✓Improvisation
Theatre Practitioners
- ✓Stanislavski, Brecht and Artaud at KS3
- ✓Physical theatre
- ✓What practitioners believe
Performance Spaces
- ✓Proscenium, thrust, in-the-round, traverse
- ✓Promenade and site-specific theatre
- ✓The audience–performer relationship
Production Design
- ✓Staging and set — levels, proxemics
- ✓Lighting and sound
- ✓Atmosphere and effects
Script & Text
- ✓Reading a script — stage directions
- ✓Dialogue and subtext
- ✓Performing from a script
Drama Vocabulary
- ✓Key drama terms every student should own
- ✓Using vocabulary to evaluate
The same engine as GCSE Drama, tuned for KS3. Every card is written at the right level for Y7–Y9. When students reach GCSE the practitioners aren't strangers — Stanislavski, Brecht and Artaud are already familiar. Staging vocabulary, lighting terms and devising language all land faster when students have already practised them.
Try it for four weeks. Free.
One school. Unlimited classes. No card limit. No teacher limit. If your students aren't practising daily by the end of the trial, you owe us nothing.