C/1479/001/A - KS1/2 Dance – Improving Dance in Your School

MID TERM CURRICULUM PLAN – JohnPerryPrimary School

JOHNPERRYPRIMARY SCHOOL: MEDIUM TERM CURRICULUM PLAN

SUBJECT: PEYEAR 3

AREA OF
LEARNING / LEARNING INTENTIONS
Pupils should be able to:- / TEACHING STRATEGIES / VOCABULARY / REFERENCES
Dance /
  • Improvise freely, translating ideas from a stimulus into movement
  • Create dance phrases that communicate ideas
  • Share and create dance phrases with a partner and in a small group
  • Repeat, remember and perform these phrases in a dance
  • Use dynamic, rhythmic and expressive qualifies clearly and with control
  • Understand the importance of warming up and cooling down
  • Recognise and talk about the movements used and the expressive qualities of dance
  • Suggest improvements to their own and other people's dances
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  • Talk about a stimulus. Teach them to uselanguage to describe it. eg a machine might be: jerky, pushing, pulling
  • Encourage children to explore action wardsthrough different movements
  • Teach them to change speed, strength and flowof their movements, and the way they usespace. Encourage them to use their whole bodyand individual parts of their body.
  • Teach them to work with a partner and in smallgroups to explore different relationships, egpushing and pulling, actions going over, underand around each other; circling actions meetingand parting.
  • Teach them to explore movements with apartner, working in unison and in canon.
  • Ask the children to create phrases thatcombine different actions and qualities
  • Help them to remember dance phrases bytalking them through the sequence.
  • Encourageclear starting and finishing positions.
  • Teach dance activities that make them feelwarmer, mobilise the joints and stretch thebody.
  • Encourage them to suggest how danceswith apartner could be improved
  • Teach some stretches they could use to warmup and cool down.
/ Words to describe:
  • Actions
  • Dynamics
  • space and relationship
  • Group formations: e.g.: square, circle, line
  • Partner
  • Copy, follow, lead
  • Unison
  • canon,
  • repeat
  • Structure
  • Motif
  • Dance
  • phrase
  • Improvisation
  • Explore
/ QCA
Dance for Juniors
TOPS
Dudley
Dance in the Primary School
Music, poems, pictures, objects, videos
Percussion instruments