Year 6 Dance

Making the Grade

Phase / Objective / Activities / Resources
1 / to learn a set phrase from teacher
to create 4 gestures based on feelings before an exam / Warm Up – teacher led aerobic warm up.
Main Teaching
Teach pupils set phrase – using development task 1 from core tasks CD. Ideas of being handed a paper, asking questions, opening the paper etc.

  • Pupils practice in pairs
  • As a class, write all the emotions and feelings pupils feel before an exam.
  • Individually, pupils chose 4 of the emotions/feelings and create 4 different gestures around those feelings. Each emotion gesture to hold for 4 or 8 beats before the set phrase starts.
  • Rehearse both sections.
Plenary – evaluate performances / Music – leftfield – phat planet (use youtube for track and warm up track)
chairs
2 / To create a paired phrase modifying existing / Warm Up – teacher led aerobic warm up.
Main Teaching
  • Recap whole class phrase from week 1 and individual gestures
  • Split group into pairs who have to take ideas from the class phrase and create 2 x 8 beats of movement, changing/modifying the existing movements by using the Dance toolkit (changing speeds, levels, directions for example)
  • Link the phrase together with phrases from week 1
Plenary – evaluate performances
3 / To create a phrase in groups developing relationships choosing from canon, action/reaction, mirroring, matching and facing different directions. / Warm up – Teacher/pupil led aerobic warm up
Main Teaching
  • Recap phrases from previous weeks
  • Split pupils into groups and ask them to create a phrase of 4 x 8 beats
  • Encourage cannon, unison, matching/mirroring techniques to enhance the phrase
  • Link together with paired phrase and decide on performance – group members on adjacent chairs or group members on chairs spread out across the hall
Plenary – evaluate performances
4 / To develop a movement phrase as a whole class thinking about the compositional strategies taught earlier in the module / Warm up – pupil led aerobic warm up
Main Teaching
  • Individually, pupils spend time creating own 4 beat motif.
  • Select best from the class to put together a class phrase
  • Link with other sections to the dance
Plenary – evaluate performances
5 / To create the opening to the dance / Warm up – pupil led aerobic warm up
Main teaching
  • Brainstorm the feelings for pupils waiting outside the exam room and how they would enter the exam room
  • Ask pupils in groups to experiment with ideas of how to enter the exam and to rehearse their entrance for 4 x 8 beats
  • Link all phrases together
/ Chairs
Music
Flip video
computer
6 / To perform final dance piece and appreciate performance / Warm up – pupil led aerobic warm up
Main teaching
  • Rehearse the dance in sections and then altogether
  • Perform to other year 6 class
  • Video class performance using flip video and play back performance and pupils to assess their work against success criteria