KS1 Dance - Under the Sea SOL

UPDATED AND IMPROVED ON 03/10/2021

This resource is for KS1 teachers teaching dance through the Physical Education part of the national curriculum during the topic of Sea Creatures (or any topic connected to sea creatures, oceans, water etc.
This ‘Sea Creatures’ SOL allows pupils to discover the magic of the sea as well as developing their dance knowledge. Through play, games, activities and group work, pupils will learn how to use a stimulus (sea creatures) to create actions and dance phrases that will develop into a final dance performance piece.

This SOL comes with:

• 6 lesson plans, detailing the activities in each lesson along with coaching points to aid teaching.
• A 6 lesson PowerPoint including notes under each slide to help with the delivery of the lesson.
• A document with the pictures of each of the sea creatures to be explored. These can be printed and laminated to hand out to groups so that they know which animal they have been assigned to.
• A CPD document that should help with aspects of teaching dance that a none dance specialist might find helpful.

Notes:
The timings of the lesson and the activities within the lesson plans can of course be adapted. Activities can be changed, lengthened, shortened, taken out, differentiated etc.
Feel free to adapt this resource to suit your own needs as well as the needs of the children.
Feel free to use your own music. I used ‘Under the Sea’ from The Little Mermaid for the routine itself and instrumental music from the Finding Nemo soundtrack while pupils were taking part in creative group tasks.

I loved teaching this SOL and I hope you do too. If you find it helpful, I would massively appreciate it if you could leave me a review 