In this 10 week unit, students will select, rehearse and perform a production. This guide gives you all the steps to support you to show-stopping success.

Students dive into Māori perspectives on taonga by creating dramas inspired by Te Wheke and its treasures, developing sustained roles through improvisation, rehearsal, and performance.

Students explore online safety through drama, develop empathy, practice decision-making, and generate and communicate important messages about digital citizenship in their communities.

Oh No! Sticky Ricky is stealing everyone’s socks! In this drama students work collaboratively in role to generate ideas and bring fictional characters to life to help the neighbours get their socks back.

Drama can be magic and help develop our skills of detection too. In this drama students observe and respond, ask questions and create characters and imagine new worlds.

This fun filled introduction to the art of improvisation builds capacities and skills through a range of lively engaging improv games.

These high resolution A3 posters on Drama techniques can be used as teaching tools on physical classroom walls and in digital spaces.

We are pleased to share the highlights from our Wānanga focused on culturally-centred practice, held in July 2025 in Kirikiriroa Hamilton.

In this unit, students develop practical ways of moving using physical theatre techniques. They are introduced to a range of vocal, body and movement conventions, alongside developing the use of musical and textual stimuli to communicate and interpret meaning.

Drama games and learning activities to support English language learning in the classroom.

These high resolution A3 posters can be used as reference on physical classroom walls and in digital spaces.

This short unit of work will guide you through some exercises that focus on building the fundamentals of a safe and consensual performance environment for students.

An extract from Īhaka Martyn’s performance He Māori? followed by kōrero with the audience. 

Morag Carter demonstrates the application of her Aotearoa NZ Histories card deck resource in the classroom.

Īhaka Martyn is the Kairuruku Whakaari / Script Co-ordinator for Playmarket. Here, he shares the work of Playmarket alongside some recommendations of Māori playwrights and plays for use in schools.

A collection of kēmu suggestions to refresh your kete. Included are intros/explanations with examples of how to play, shared by kaiako and wānanga contributors.

Whakarongo Tauranga, on behalf of Dramatic Inquiry Network Trust, introduces her unit ‘Who owns the paihikara, who owns the whenua’ for upper primary ākonga. The unit uses Mantle of Expert (drama and inquiry) to support learners to see Te Tiriti from the perspective of tangata whenua. 

Annette Thomson shares her research into how space reflects our identity, with provocations on how we can shape our teaching spaces to reflect Aotearoa NZ and give effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi, referring to resources from WADNZ website.

Lisa Simpson shares her mahi with a Year 9 Drama class, grounding the intro work within her local area before launching into a process drama using The Huia Beak Brooch.

This resource supports ākonga to unpack a script and characters that they are exploring in class through a Drama Elements lens.