Term One - Sword and Shield
This unit will introduce you to stage combat with a single rapier/ single-handed broadsword and a buckler. It will be the first course in which you will use a shield as well as a bladed weapon. In this second year of study, more will be expected in relation to connecting the skills and techniques of a weapons system and in-depth character work and performance.

Term One - Military Sabre
This unit will introduce students to military sabre play. This weapon is traditionally associated with cavalry and mounted troops and can have a straight or curved blade, usually single edged. Although already familiar with cutting and thrusting techniques you will encounter styles of use particular to this weapon, employed from the late eighteenth-century to the early twentieth.

Term Two - Group Fights
In this unit students will be introduced to the disciplines and focus required for group fights with multiple attackers. You will work in groups, under direction, to rehearse and perform scenes of group conflict using weapons, unarmed combat and found objects. Falling midway through Year 2, you should have gained appropriate skills to deal with multiple partners and maintain character simultaneously.

Term Two & Three - Smallsword
This unit will introduce you to a new form of stage combat; this weapon and style will require a greater delicacy of swordplay, pointwork, and footwork than you will have previously encountered. It will call on the footwork and pointwork covered in previous modules, but also introduce new manoeuvres specific to this 18th-century weapon.

Term Two & Three - Knife
This weapon skill introduces you to a new fighting distance - due to the length of the blade. The techniques for knife combine the skills acquired in both unarmed and armed combat. The rhythm, tempo and speed of a knife fight will be completely different to any other weapon system you will have previously explored.

Terms Two and Three - Fighting on Camera
This unit will introduce students to performing fights on camera. In term two you will be presented with the disciplines involved in creating a variety of styles of combat, both as foreground and background artists within the particular technical requirements often encountered in the filming of drama. You will create short fight scenes, which will be recorded on digital video and used for feedback discussion about how techniques need to be presented to be effective for the camera. This will call upon all the skills that you have been developing throughout your time at East 15 and prepare you for Year Three, where you will be able to work with and manipulate filmed sequences. This will overlap with other units of the term and culminates with a filmed project in Term Three.