National Plan for Drama and Theatre Education
This document has been facilitated and coordinated by Dr Steve Ball and Dr Geoff Readman on behalf of the Drama and Theatre Education Alliance (DTEA).
You Matter
You Matter Now, more than ever teachers, should be asking young people the question “what would you like to do a drama about?” The question invites children to reflect on what is important to them. We live in an era where it appears that in schools, knowledge is all that matters; it’s certainly all that …
New blog post by Vita Nova
In this month’s ND Blog, Tom Williams and Libby Bellhouse, who performed at the National Drama Conference, tell us about their journey as members of Vita Nova, an arts charity for those in recovery from drug and alcohol abuse.
National Drama’s Response to the Government’s Proposed Cultural Education Plan
National Drama’s Executive were invited to meet two members of the DfE on July 13th 2023. Clive Fischer and Amajit Basi presented a position paper with a series of questions from the DfE. Zeena Rasheed, Vice Chair of National Drama presented ND’s response to the DfE via power point. This power point is highly relevant to current …
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House of Lords 11-16 Enquiry and Report
Early in 2023, National Drama was invited to make a presentation to this Enquiry. We needed to respond with considerable speed to the invitation, and many of the ND executive rallied to meet the urgent requests from our Chair for advice, figures and guidance to inform the presentation that he would make. His presentation, shared …
Read the latest issue of our Drama magazine
The new issue covers a wealth of feature and articles for drama teachers and theatre educators. ND members should have received your copy in your mailbox now.
Read the latest issue of our Drama magazine
The new issue covers a wealth of feature and articles for drama teachers and theatre educators. ND members should have received your copy in your mailbox now. Subscriptions are available for our wider community here: nationaldrama.org.uk/dramamagazine/
Drama Learning Journeys
In this previous pull-out resource from Drama magazine, practitioners Sharon Leftwich-Lloyd and Victoria Husband share their learning journeys for Secondary Drama.
ND lobbies at Labour Party Conference
National Drama, NATD, NAYT and Drama HE got together this week to lobby for the importance of Drama and Theatre Education at the Labour Party Conference.
Peter Brook – In Memorium
National Drama Chair, Dr Geoff Readman, speaks to the life and legacy of theatre director Peter Brook, who died aged 97 on 2nd July 2022.