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I am a secondary school Dance teacher and have been teaching Dance since 2012. During my teaching career I have also had the pleasure of teaching Dance in primary schools and have trained both primary and secondary school teachers.
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I am a secondary school Dance teacher and have been teaching Dance since 2012. During my teaching career I have also had the pleasure of teaching Dance in primary schools and have trained both primary and secondary school teachers.
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This bundle is for teachers of KS3 Dance and includes all of the KS3 schemes from my TES shop.
Please see individual resources for more information.
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This ‘Intro to Dance’ 6 lesson SOL and delivery PowerPoint is for teachers teaching dance at the beginning of Year 7 (or whenever dance is first introduced in your school).
Purpose:
This SOL is to be taught right at the beginning of Year 7. Lesson 1 is designed to inform pupils of the dance studio rules and what to expect from their secondary school dance lessons. Throughout this SOL, pupils will gain and develop basic performance skills through working as a whole class to perform a teacher taught phrase that consists of the different dance body action. Working in small groups, students will gain and develop basic choreography skills through the creation of their own phrase using the knowledge gained through the performance task and will have the opportunity to view each other’s work and provide feedback to improve their own and other’s work. Throughout this SOL there is an emphasis on safety in the dance studio where pupils will develop knowledge and understanding of basic health and safety requirements for dance.
Includes:
6 lesson (60 min per lesson) delivery PowerPoint with: ‘Enquiry questions’, ‘Do Now’ activities, ‘TIF (Take It Further) challenges’, YouTube clips and level descriptors.
6 body actions dance tutorial
STAR marking grid
Mark sheet
Theory task
Cover work
Dance feedback toolkit
UPDATED AND IMPROVED ON 21/02/2022
This resource is for KS1 teachers teaching dance through the Physical Education part of the national curriculum during the topic of toys (or any topic connected to toys, gifts, celebration etc).
This ‘Toys’ scheme of work is great to teach after the holiday season. It allows pupils to share their holiday experience through emotion and movement games along with developing their creativity through choreography tasks.
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 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 ‘Epic Music – Toys Come Alive’ on YouTube
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
Updated: 11/08/22
This street dance resource is for teachers of KS3 dance (preferably in the third term of Y7 after teaching ‘intro to dance’ and ‘Rock and Roll’ .
This lively and upbeat SOL has been created to really engage pupils within their dance studies. As this SOL is taught in term 3 after ‘intro to dance’ and ‘Rock and Roll’ pupils are expected to use the performance, choreography and appreciation skills that they have previously learnt and apply them to a different style of dance.
This SOL encourages pupils to explore the shapes that their body can make through experimentation, improvisation and games; building up their confidence before stretching and challenging pupils to choreograph movement using the letters in their name as a stimulus.
Includes:
• 6 lesson (60 min per lesson) delivery PowerPoint with: ‘Enquiry questions’, ‘Do Now’ activities, ‘TIF (Take It Further) challenges’, YouTube clips and level descriptors.
• STAR marking grid
• Mark sheet
• Theory task
• Dance feedback toolkit
This Bundle is for teachers of Dance preparing their Year 9 pupils for GCSE.
The bundle contains:
Y9 GCSE Dance Taster: Performance Breathe (6 lessons)
Y9 GCSE Dance Taster: Performance Shift (6 lessons)
Y9 GCSE Dance Taster: Choreography (12 lessons)
Y9 GCSE Dance Taster: Anthology (14 lessons)
Please see each individual resource for more information.
KS3 Dance: Year 9 Bundle
All Around the World 17x60min lessons
-GCSE Taster: Anthology 14x60min lessons
GCSE Taster: Breathe - 6x60min lessons
GCSE Taster: Choreography - 12x60 min lessons
GCSE Taster: Shift - 6x60min lessons (alternative SOW)
Please see individual resources for more information.
This bundle includes all the Year 7 dance schemes of learning that I will be delivering from September 2022:
Introduction to Dance
Rock and Roll
Street Dance
Please see individual resources for more information.
KS4 AQA GCSE Dance Revision – Component 2: 12 mark questions
This resource has been designed for teachers of GCSE dance revising the dance anthology in preparation for the written exam.
This lesson has been created to provide a way for dance students to revise in a fun and interactive way.
There are many ways to use this resource:
Make it into a game: print out the 1st slide and cut the boxes out. Pupils can pick the boxes at random and have a go at answering the questions on the second slide.
Differentiation: You can pre pick the questions prior to the lesson based on your pupil’s strengths and areas of weakness to challenge your pupils appropriately. Print out the 2nd slide for them with their differentiated question on.
Whole class activity: As a class decide on a question to tackle and discuss the question together before allowing the pupils to have a go at writing their answers.
Homework revision: Print out the PowerPoint for your pupils to allow them to practice the 12 mark questions at home.
Enjoy!
Updated: 11/08/22
This ‘Gumboot Dance’ 6 lesson SOL is for teachers teaching KS3 dance.
This SOL explores the history and evolution of South African Gumboot dance. Pupils will gain and develop basic dance appreciation skills through watching clips of Gumboot dancing and '“Gumboots” Through the eyes of Michael Moloi which will lead into discussions about the history of the style in relation to actions, space, dynamics and relationships. Props are introduced from lesson 4 and inspiration on how to use them is drawn from Stomp the Musical. Pupils will gain and develop basic performance and choreography skills through working as a whole class to perform set Gumboot rhythms using unison, repetition and action and reaction. Working in small groups, pupils are encouraged to be creative and are allocated time to experiment and improvise choreographic ideas with their groups resulting in a group performance of their Gumboot choreographies that include a prop. Pupils will have the opportunity to view each other’s work and provide feedback to improve their own and other’s work. This SOL also provides pupils with research homework tasks to promote independence and research skills needed at KS4.
Includes:
6 lesson (60 min per lesson) delivery PowerPoint with: ‘Enquiry questions’, ‘Do Now’ activities, ‘TIF (Take It Further) challenges’, YouTube clips, level descriptors and YouTube links to my Gumboot tutorials.
STAR marking grid
Mark sheet
2 video tutorials
Remote learning task
Cover work
Dance feedback toolkit
This resource is for teachers of GCSE dance.
With the help of the online AQA glossary, I have created a excel document with 3 tabs: Choreography, Performance and Appreciation. I have printed and laminated each tab (A3) to use as posters in my dance studio. My dancers find these posters really helpful to refer to in class.
This KS4 GCSE Dance Component 2: Dance Appreciation Walking Talking Mock is for teachers of AQA GCSE Dance who are preparing their pupils for the actual GCSE written paper. The PowerPoint presentation set over 3 lessons (1 lesson per section) guides pupils though the specimen written paper that can be found on the AQA GCSE website. Each question is broken down so that pupils clearly understand what is being asked of them and know how to gain full marks for each question (using AQA’s specimen mark scheme).
Each lesson (each section) comes with its own starter activity (bell task) and lesson objectives.
Section B includes talking points to help pupils articulate their ideas before writing their answers down. Section B also comes with some example answers. PLEASE NOTE: the example answers I compiled from different recourses that I found online but not from TES resources.
Section C I created myself (Only using AQA’s specimen paper for guidance). I have included the answer booklet for section C within this resource (the specimen paper for sections A and B can be found on AQA’s website). Section C includes planning slides to help pupils plan for the 6 and 12 mark questions. Section C also comes with some example answers. PLEASE NOTE: the example answers I compiled from different recourses that I found online but not from TES resources.
Section C includes questions on Emancipation of expressionism, Artificial Things and Shadows so is ideal to be taught midway through Y10 (after teaching Emancipation of Expressionism, Artificial Things and Shadows) following the advice from AQA or at any point onwards as part of the revision process.
The creation of the PowerPoint was very time consuming. Feel free to create your own or save a lot of time by downloading mine.
This KS4 GCSE Dance Component 1: Set Phrase Breathe 3 week Delivery PP is for teachers of AQA GCSE Dance who are preparing their pupils for their Solo exam. The PowerPoint presentation set over approximately 3 weeks guides pupils though the set phrase: Breathe, using all the resources that the AQA website provides; including still images from the video links and copied text from the breakdown tables.
The PowerPoint is designed for ease of delivery and to answer pupils (and teachers) questions regarding the steps of each set phrase.
I delivered this SOW by firstly asking pupils to get into groups of 3 and labelling themselves A, B and C. As would firstly come to the front to learn the phrase on the board that I would demonstrate and break down before returning to their group to teach the phrase to their group. Bs would learn the next phrase and Cs the final phrase. All 3 pupils would then work together to practice the section that they had learnt before a whole class performance to the metronome or a piece of music of 105bpm. I decided to do it this way to promote independence and increase self-confidence as both are extremely important for the successful delivery of the set phrases in the solo exam.
I adapted the PowerPoint into a homework booklet so that pupils could take it home to practice. The homework booklet is included in this resource.
The creation of the PowerPoint was very time consuming. Feel free to create your own or save a lot of time by downloading mine.
This bundle includes 4 delivery PowerPoints to teach the GCSE Set dances.
Year 9 GCSE Dance Taster Set Dance Breathe
Year 9 GCSE Dance Taster Set Dance Shift
KS4 GCSE Dance Set Dance Breathe
KS4 GCSE Dance Set Dance Shift.
Please see the individual recourses for detailed information.
Updated: 11/08/22
This Rock and Roll 6 lesson SOL is for teachers teaching year KS3 dance (ideally year 7 after teaching ‘Intro to Dance’.
This is a fun and energetic SOL designed for pupils to have fun while learning performance, choreography and appreciation skills through the Rock and Roll dance style.
The PowerPoint is structured around my choreography of ‘Jail House Rock’ From the Blues Brothers musical and some of the terminology used e.g. ‘pancake roll’ is terminology that I use rather than being a technical term. This is not a PowerPoint that you will be able to use unedited. Feel free to edit for whichever Rock and Roll song you would like to use.
Includes:
• 6 lesson (60 min per lesson) delivery PowerPoint with: ‘Enquiry questions’, ‘Do Now’ activities, ‘TIF (Take It Further) challenges’, YouTube clips and level descriptors.
• STAR marking grid
• Mark sheet
• Dance feedback toolkit
This resource contains 4 lessons dedicated to developing pupils transferable skills (communication, time management, creative problem solving and team work) though Performing Arts games and activities.
Each lesson focuses on one of the 4 transferable skills (communication, time management, creative problem solving and team work). Each lesson is complete with starter activities (in the form of Bell tasks) and TIF tasks (take it further).
I am a Performing Arts teacher but strongly believe that you do not have to be a Performing Arts teacher to deliver these lessons as each game is explained on the PowerPoint.
I created these lessons after observing pupils in my class who didn’t appear to have the transferable skills that they needed to fully engage with the activities of my lessons. It dawned on me that we as teachers sometimes presume that pupils naturally have the transferable skills that we need them to have e.g. working in a group environment but we don’t tend to ‘teach’ them those transferable skills or dedicate lessons to help them develop such skills. So that’s exactly what I decided to to do.
I created these lessons with my Year 8 classes in mind but I am sure year 7 and even primary school aged children would enjoy these lessons. My year 8s really enjoyed these lessons and I feel made an impact. I now often refer to them when teaching my normal curriculum lessons. e.g. "you have 5 min to complete this task, remember our time management lesson…’
This resource would also be good for PSHCE and for teachers teaching pupils with additional needs.
This resource is for teachers of GCSE dance who want to forecast what levels their dancers will get in their GCSEs based on the 2018 grade boundaries.
Either use it to keep an up to date track of pupils scores from their assessments or use it to enter predicted scores, guide conversations with pupils or to answer questions such as ‘how many more marks would I need to get a level…”
Cells coloured in a peach colour are cells that contain formulas. I have coloured them to remind me to not touch them.
I recommend keeping a copy of the original file just in case something vital to making the spreadsheet run smoothly is accidently deleted.
UPDATED AND IMPROVED ON 11/10/2021
This resource is for KS1 teachers teaching dance through the Physical Education part of the national curriculum during the topic of the Caribbean (or any topic connected to the Caribbean, holidays or Zumba).
Calypso dance was formed in the islands of Trinidad and Tobago by African people enslaved in the Caribbean in the 1800s. They were treated very badly and had to work in horrific conditions. However, during their free time, they celebrated through singing and dancing and this is how the style began. Although then, the dance style was about telling stories through dance; today, Calypso dance moves are used in Zumba fitness routines as they are fun and energetic.
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 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 Luis Fonsi, Stefflon Don – Calypso on YouTube.
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
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 rainforests (or any topic connected to rainforests, Brazil, carnival or celebration).
This ‘Rainforest Animals/Carnival’ SOL allows pupils to discover Brazil in a fun, exciting and an imaginative way. During the first 3 lessons of this scheme of learning, pupils will learn about the animals that live in the Amazon Rainforest, which they will use as a stimulus for choreography. The following 3 lessons focuses on carnival, where pupils will be able to take part in their own carnival parade. At the end of this scheme of learning, pupils will have a performance piece that they can perform in an assembly or for parents.
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 rainforest animals 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 Rainforest sounds and ‘Beautiful Creatures’ from the Rio 2 soundtrack on YouTube.
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 :)
This KS3 Dance year plan shows what I deliver at Year 7 and Year 8.
All my SOW can be found on TES resources complete with 6 lesson delivery PowerPoints that include: starters, lesson objectives, homework tasks and assessment tasks.
I have also created a bundle that include all of the KS3 SOW that I currently deliver.
I hope they help and provide you with less time planning and more time enjoying teaching :)
This is a resource for teachers of Pearson BTEC Level 1/Level 2 Tech Award in Performing Arts Unit 1: Exploring the Performing Arts and are up to the presentation/promotional material task.
This resource in intended to be used at a point where pupils have a good knowledge of the practitioners and repertoire that they are studying (preferably after the research journal task). This resource is a very general guide though what is needed in their presentations/ promotional material which is broken up into 6 lessons to chunk it down in easy to manage tasks.
This resource references 3 performing arts practitioners: Kenrick Sandy (Dance), Mark Wheeller (Drama) and Frantic Assembly (Physical Theatre). However, this can be very easily adapted for your chosen practitioners.