Drama

Contact the Qualifications Manager for this subject area
Mary McDonald

For more information about the Access 1 and 2 levels, please refer to the Access 1 and 2 website.

New National Certificates - SCQF level 6

We recently launched two National Certificates: one in Acting and Theatre Performance and one in Technical Theatre. As a result of this work 28 new and revised Units have been developed.

• NQGA Development - Drama
• Unit provision - leaflet

New National Progression Awards - SCQF level 6

SQA has recently designed and developed a number of new National Progression Awards (NPAs) in Drama and Technical Theatre and these will be formally launched at a venue in Stirling on the afternoon of Friday 19 March 2010.

A copy of the invitation letter and reply slip is attached below. If you would like to attend the launch event, please return the reply slip by Friday 5 March.

• Music and Drama NPA Launch Invitation (40 KB)
• Reply Form (148 KB)

NPA Arrangement Documents

• Acting and Performance (238 KB)
• Technical Theatre in Practice (227 KB)
• Musical Theare - still in development

• Professional Theatre Preparation (292 KB)

  NPA frameworks

Subject-specific Information

Subject-specific information is available from the right-hand 'Subject-specific links' menu. 

Understanding Standards

To learn more about SQA standards and how they are applied to Higher Drama, you can visit the Understanding Standards website.

SQA Past Papers

Drama Past Papers are available to order from Bright Red Publishing covering the folloing levels:

 
• Standard Grade (Foundation/General/Credit) 

Past Papers for the 2009 diet can be downloaded free of charge from this site:

• Drama

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