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.

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.

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. 

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