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GCSE Drama

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Drama makes heavy literacy demands: close reading of a set text and unseen extracts, typed extended answers in a 2 hour on-screen examination, a written Reflective Log, precise drama terminology and sustained spoken performance of scripts. Numeracy is light and practical, mainly timing pieces to set lengths and working to scale on ground plans and model sets for designers. The single biggest thing Key Stage 3 should build is the ability to analyse how actors, designers and directors create meaning, and to write about it using accurate drama terminology.

Corff dyfarnu
CBAC
Lefel
Level 1 and Level 2
Addysgu gyntaf
Medi 2025
Faint o waith llythrennedd
Uchel
Faint o waith rhifedd
Isel
Manyleb
Agor y fanyleb
Sut mae'r cymhwyster hwn yn cael ei asesu
  • Unit 1: Devising Theatre: Practical non-examination assessment and Reflective Log, marked by centre and moderated by WJEC, 40%, 96 marks
  • Unit 2: Performance from a Text: Practical non-examination assessment, marked by a visiting examiner, 30%, 72 marks
  • Unit 3: Interpreting Theatre: On-screen examination 2 hours, 30%, 72 marks

Sgiliau sy'n defnyddio Strategaethau darllen

  1. Reading and interpreting a set play

    Asesu: Yn yr arholiad

    Learners study one set text and explain how the actor, designer and director communicate meaning, including character motivations and relationships. They must also know the social, historical and cultural context of its first performance.

    Llythrennedd: Strategaethau darllen, Deall, ymateb a dadansoddi

    Paratoi disgyblion

    Blwyddyn 7
    Pupils read a short scene in groups and highlight one line where a character means more than they say, then explain the subtext aloud.
    Blwyddyn 8
    Pupils annotate a page of script with a character's motivations and relationships, recording evidence from the lines on a role on the wall.
    Blwyddyn 9
    Pupils study a whole short play, research when and where it was first performed, and write how that context would shape one staging decision.
    Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd

    Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 3, content 3.1.2, pages 16 to 17

    “identify and describe, using drama terminology how the actor, designer and director communicate meaning to an audience through the study of their chosen set text”
    Cam cynnydd 3

    • Rwy’n gallu defnyddio sgiliau dehongli a dod i gasgliad er mwyn deall y testun, ac yn gallu ystyried dibynadwyedd yr hyn rwy'n ei ddarllen.

    • Rwy'n gallu dehongli syniadau nad ydyn nhw wedi'u mynegi'n benodol, e.e. safbwyntiau neu agweddau awdur.

    Cam cynnydd 4

    • Rwy'n gallu dangos dealltwriaeth lawn o destunau drwy ddefnyddio sgiliau dehongli, dod i gasgliad a dadansoddi.

    • Rwy'n gallu darllen yn fanwl, gwneud gwaith dilynol a defnyddio deunyddiau ychwanegol mewn testunau i ymestyn fy nealltwriaeth.

    Cam cynnydd 5

    • Rwy'n gallu deall testunau'n llawn drwy ddefnyddio sgiliau dehongli, dod i gasgliad a dadansoddi, gan ddeall cyd-destun y testunau sy'n dylanwadu ar y darllenydd.

    • Rwy'n gallu dadansoddi ac ymateb i destunau ac is-destunau, gan ddeall, dehongli a gwerthuso ystyr yn hyderus.

  2. Analysing unseen extracts and performances

    Asesu: Yn yr arholiad

    In the examination learners analyse and evaluate unprepared extracts, identifying performance styles and how actors, designers and directors communicate meaning. Unit 3 also expects critique of live or recorded theatre.

    Llythrennedd: Deall, ymateb a dadansoddi, Strategaethau darllen

    Paratoi disgyblion

    Blwyddyn 7
    Pupils read an unseen half page extract and name its style, such as naturalism or physical theatre, giving two clues from the stage directions.
    Blwyddyn 8
    Pupils watch a recorded theatre extract and note how one actor uses voice and movement, then write a short paragraph on the effect on the audience.
    Blwyddyn 9
    Pupils complete a timed 20 minute analysis of an unseen extract, explaining how a designer's lighting and sound choices would communicate meaning.
    Dangos geiriad y fanyleb a datganiadau'r Fframwaith Llythrennedd a Rhifedd

    Ble mae yn y fanyleb: Unit 3, content 3.1.3, page 17; Unit 3 overview, page 15

    “analyse and evaluate using drama terminology how the actor, designer and director communicate meaning to an audience through the study of unprepared extracts”
    Cam cynnydd 3

    • Rwy'n gallu darllen yn fanwl, gan adnabod a nodi nodweddion testunau, e.e. cyflwyniad, dilyniant, darluniau, ffurfioldeb, geirfa allweddol.

    • Rwy’n gallu defnyddio sgiliau dehongli a dod i gasgliad er mwyn deall y testun, ac yn gallu ystyried dibynadwyedd yr hyn rwy'n ei ddarllen.

    Cam cynnydd 4

    • Rwy'n gallu darllen a chanolbwyntio ar destunau a argraffwyd a thestunau digidol sy'n newydd i mi a diweddaru, ehangu a dyfnhau fy nealltwriaeth o wybodaeth, syniadau a materion.

    • Rwy’n gallu defnyddio sgiliau dehongli a dod i gasgliad i ddeall testunau mwy cymhleth, ac ystyried dibynadwyedd ac effaith yr hyn rwy'n ei ddarllen.

    Cam cynnydd 5

    • Rwy'n gallu darllen a dadansoddi ystod o destunau nas gwelais o'r blaen, testunau a argraffwyd a thestunau digidol, gan ganolbwyntio ac yn annibynnol.

    • Rwy'n gallu darllen yn fanwl, gan ddadansoddi cynnwys, iaith ac effaith testunau er mwyn dyfnhau fy nealltwriaeth.

Da gwybod

Cysylltiadau â chymwysterau eraill

Script reading and analytical writing overlap strongly with English, so agreeing a shared paragraph structure with the English department will help pupils.

Ffynhonnell: WJEC GCSE Drama specification, teaching from 2025, for award from 2027, Version 2, September 2026 (© WJEC CBAC Ltd 2024).