Assessment - (use the core tasks) Year 1 DANCE Unit 1 • Copy simple movements; explore basic body actions demonstrated by the teacher and respond to stimuli with actions. • Perform, practice and refine chosen movements into their own phrases with beginnings, middle and end. • Know where their heart is and understand why it beats faster when exercising. • Use simple dance vocabulary and talk about linking movements to moods, ideas and feelings. Year 2 DANCE Unit 2 • Explore ideas, moods and feelings by improvising and experimenting with actions using stimuli. • Link movements to perform short dances, • Use simple dance vocabulary to comment on likes and dislikes. • Identify when their body is cool, warm and hot and know where there heart is. Know understand and describe how their body feels after dance and why they need to warm and cool down. Create own warm ups. Year 3 DANCE Unit 3 • response to stimuli explore and develop new actions working in groups. • perform short dances showing awareness of others and describe actions • Use expressive language to describe dance and suggest improvements. • perform a range of warm up activities • explain necessity of warm up/cool down • identify when we are warmed up • know how to be safe and efficient Year 4 DANCE Unit 4 • Respond to ideas, created by stimulus, through movement. • Use different compositional ideas and practice longer phrases. • Describe dance movements using appropriate vocabulary and suggest improvements. • Understand warming up/cooling down • Devise routines of stretching exercises • Know importance of fitness. Year 5 DANCE Unit 5 • Create/compose and develop motifs, performing different movement patterns with style and accuracy. Use appropriate vocabularies to describe different styles and suggest ways to develop their technique. • Know how to warm up and warm down and how muscles work during exercise. Year 6 DANCE Unit 6 • Select and use a range of ideas to create a performance using a range of controlled movements and patterns. Use appropriate language to identify and describe performance and know how to improve performance. • Understand why a warm up and cool down is important and why fitness is important in dance.
Primary Dance
Resources
 
 
Foundation
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3    Lesson plans (4) Machines
Year 4    Lesson Plans (6) Ancient Egypt
Year 5
Year 6 Link Unit    World War 2
 
How to improve dance
Key Stage 2 gymnastics help from Teachers TV
Warm up and cool down ideas
Dance Framework Cards  Body, Space, Dynamics, Relationships
Actions
 
Turning
Stillness
 
Hertford Grid for Learning
 
An excellent web site for dance resources
 
Link
20th Century Black American Dance Crazes
Cake walk, charleston, lindy hop, twist, disco, break, hip hop, street
 
Lindy Hop & Jitterbug
http://www.londonswingcats.com/
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
More links:
http://www.hellzapoppin.co.uk/links.html
 
Street Dance
bbc.co.uk/blast/dance/
Video
Dance Styles
KS1 and KS2 Dance Why teach Dance How Dance relates to the 4 core PE strands
Dance Performance Techniques
A video clip
demonstrating performance skills of facial awareness, spatial awareness and technique.
 
How to turn
A video clip
demonstrating how to turn and not get dizzy
Where to dance in Camden List of venues http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=109402538374773670943.00044ba4f4b5bfc5faac5&ll=51.54025,-0.14986&spn=0.095557,0.170803&z=13 English Folk Song & Dance Society http://efdss.org/this_wk.htm Run classes and exhibitions in lots of different styles. What’s on this month Latin Dance http://www.latindanceacademy.co.uk/ LDA classes are held at::
   Cecil Sharp House
   2 Regents Park Road
   LONDON, NW1 7AYhttp://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=109402538374773670943.00044ba4f4b5bfc5faac5&ll=51.54025,-0.14986&spn=0.095557,0.170803&z=13http://efdss.org/this_wk.htmhttp://efdss.org/this_wk.htmhttp://www.latindanceacademy.co.ukshapeimage_10_link_0shapeimage_10_link_1shapeimage_10_link_2shapeimage_10_link_3
Test link to U Tube Dance Festival March 09