Drama for Key Stages 1 - 2

‘All pupils should be enabled to participate in and gain knowledge, skills and understanding associated with the artistic practice of drama. Pupils should be able to adopt, create and sustain a range of roles, responding appropriately to others in role. They should have opportunities to improvise, devise and script drama for one another and a range of audiences, as well as to rehearse, refine, share and respond thoughtfully to drama and theatre performances.’

National Curriculum.

There are two ways of interpreting this paragraph: 

1. It gives no guidance or instruction on how to incorporate drama in key stages 1-2, so can't be as important as STEM subjects. Let's offer it as an extra-curricular activity. 

2. It justifies the embedding of drama and artistic practice throughout the curriculum, both as a subject in it's own right, and as a teaching methodology. 

For the past year we have chaired an initiative with the Drama…