I am a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities primary teacher, MLD, SLD and PMLD and autism.
I was a mainstream secondary school dancer teacher for over 5 years. I also taught dance a specialist SEN school for the deaf for 3 years. I have a degree in dance, teaching qualification and PGCE.
I am a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities primary teacher, MLD, SLD and PMLD and autism.
I was a mainstream secondary school dancer teacher for over 5 years. I also taught dance a specialist SEN school for the deaf for 3 years. I have a degree in dance, teaching qualification and PGCE.
ALL GCSE DANCE PERFORMANCE SKILLS WORDSEARCH GAME
Get your students looking for the correct terminology following the AQA GCSE Dance exam board for physical, expressive, mental and technical skills. Get them looking for the words in a fun way to embed the vocabulary.
Includes all the answers to the word searches and includes smaller word searches for differentiation. Supporting SEN, EAL and LA students. Stretch your most able students with getting them to find all of the performance skills!
#gcsedance #aqadance #gcsedancegames #gcsedancetheory #gcsedanceperformanceskills #physicalskills #mentalskills #technicalskills #expressiveskills #dancechallenge #sendance #aqagcse #aqagcsedance
SEN MATHS Addition Learning Intention: To add different numbers together and calculate the total.
A range of worksheets designed for SEN students to practice their addition skills through fun and visual worksheets.
Display this poster in your dance studio or classroom to engage your students in learning! This series of posters includes all of the MENTAL SKILLS, as part of the performance skills, with their AQA definition and examples. The posters includes graphics of dancers which show inclusive and diverse dance practice, showing equality. The graphics are designed to help aid the students understanding of key terminology and meaning.
This file includes all 10 MENTAL skills - during and process and comes as an A3 PDF printable file.
#GCSEDance #AQADance #Performanceskills #expressiveskills #diversity #inclusive #inclusivedance #diversedance #poster #display #keyterminology #definitions #commitment #concentration #confidence #movememntmemory #systematicrepetition
#mentalrehearsal
#rehearsaldiscipline
#planningofrehearsal
#responsetofeedback
#capacitytoimprove.
#dance #choreography #dancetheory
This infographic details the AQA GCSE Dance space elements with definitions and images. There are some examples of the use of the spatial designs. Use this poster to display in your classroom/dance studio and or print out to give students to use, learn and revise from. The graphics are inclusive, diverse and represent a range of people dancing. #inclusivedance #dancespace #spatialdesign #KS3Dance #GCSEDance #AQADance
This infographic details the AQA GCSE Dance DYNAMICS elements with definitions and images. It categorises the types of dynamics, and what comes under them. Use this poster to display in your classroom/dance studio and or print out to give students to use, learn and revise from. This will help them for both component 1 and component 2. The graphics are inclusive, diverse and represent a range of people dancing. #inclusivedance #dancespace #spatialdesign #KS3Dance #GCSEDance #AQADance
This infographic details the AQA GCSE Dance relationships with definitions and images. There are some examples of the use of the relationships. Use this poster to display in your classroom/dance studio and or print out to give students to use, learn and revise from. The graphics are inclusive, diverse and represent a range of people dancing, showing equality. #inclusivedance #dancerelationships
Performance skills (Physical, Expressive & Technical) definitions game. Using the style and rules of the dominoes game; the aim to match up the cards to the next card. You will see each card has a key word and then a different definition. The definition on one card will match up with another dominoes card that has the corresponding key word. Which will then have another definition on it which will need to link to another key word on another. The performance skills are one document that all link up so should make a complete circle or square etc.
#GCSEDance #performanceskills #physicalskills #expressiveskills #technicalskills
2023-2024 Choreography Task PowerPoint to use as you wish with your current year 11 GCSE Dancers . This powerpoint will hopefully save you time and give you and your students lots of ideas, inspiration and pracitcal tasks in lessons as homework for this year’s choreography paper task.
This PowerPoint includes research on each set stimuli. It gives examples of different ways to interpret the stimuli as a visual, auditory, tactile and kinesthetic type of stimulus. It also includes choreographies, looking at limited to exceptionally creative. It includes the mark scheme and also includes guidance on writing the choreographic programme note.
PLEASE NOTE - YOU NEED TO DOUBLE CLICK THE VIDEOS ON SLIDES 13 AND 28 FOR THEM TO WORK:
but here are the links just in case:
Links for PowerPoint
Slide 13
https://youtu.be/B9XYtPqWLB4?si=--8bZRXSM1sJWM7B
Slide 13
https://youtu.be/r-XF7WhYCS0?si=7Z7ebaOmjLAVExjq
Slide 28
https://youtu.be/2kVf_qNfblQ?si=NS0-AmU8xoYVVQ7Y
Slide 28
https://youtu.be/vPybcmMcUyA?si=iPZldrfw-rYrs82N
PLEASE NOTE: This is all my own work and not from the AQA Exam Board themselves.
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#gcsedance #aqadance #aqagcsedance #aqagcse #danceresources #danceineducation #gcsedancechoreography #choreographygcsedance #choreography #2022gcsedance #2023gcsedance #20222023gcsedance #2022choreographytask #2023choreographytask #gcsedancechoreographytask #aqachoreographytask #freeresource #danceteacherresource
Sensory Circuits resource: a toolkit designed to enhance classroom learning through three distinct circuits. Sensory Circuits Resource with examples, planned circuits and images
Alerting Activities: Energise students with jumping jacks, running, and skipping to stimulate their senses and prepare for learning.
Organising Activities: Promote coordination and spatial awareness with balance beam walking, animal walks, and obstacle courses.
Calming Activities: Guide students to relaxation with deep breathing, gentle rocking, and sensory bottles to reduce stress and anxiety.
Clear instructions and colorful images make implementation easy. Perfect for teachers, therapists, and caregivers supporting students with diverse sensory needs. Elevate your classroom experience and empower your students to thrive with Sensory Circuits.
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Work designed through research and understanding of Jane Horwood’s book on Sensory Circuits**
ALL GCSE DANCE PERFORMANCE SKILLS CROSSWORD GAME 6 puzzles in total.
Get your students thinking and applying their knowledge of their performance skills in a fun and engaging way. Use these as a starter, homework, plenary, none participants or finished work activity to challenge your students. Can they use the definitions to work out the correct name of the skill?
This puzzle uses the correct terminology following the AQA GCSE Dance exam board for physical, expressive, mental and technical skills. Get them looking for the words in a fun way to embed the vocabulary.
Includes all the answers to the crosswords and includes smaller crosswords for differentiation. Supporting SEN, EAL and LA students. Stretch your most able students with getting them to find all of the performance skills!
#gcsedance #aqadance #gcsedancegames #gcsedancetheory #gcsedanceperformanceskills #physicalskills #mentalskills #technicalskills #expressiveskills #dancechallenge #sendance #aqagcse #aqagcsedance #dancegames #dancepuzzle #gcsedancepuzzle
Guide your students through the Bronze Arts Award with this colourful and engaging log booklet. This booklet can be used for students to plan, reflect and write up sections A, B, C and D. Print this as a booklet to be their portfolio or use it to print individual sheets to stick into their portfolios. This log provides guidance for you and your students with examples and sentence starters. #ArtsAward #Bronzelevel #artsaward #bronzeartsaward #artscouncilengland #ArtsCouncilEngland #TrinityCollegeLondon
**Pupils need brain and movement breaks to help re-energise and refocus!!!
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Transform your teaching with our innovative Movement Break Flashcards! Designed to re-energize and refocus students, these flashcards are the perfect tool for integrating short, fun, and effective physical activities into your lessons.
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Boost Energy Levels: Quick, engaging exercises to keep students alert and active.
Improve Focus: Short breaks that help students regain concentration and enhance learning.
Promote Well-being: Encourages a healthy, active lifestyle in a fun and interactive way.
Easy to Use: Ready-to-go activities that fit seamlessly into any lesson plan.
Perfect for all age groups, my Movement Break Flashcards are your go-to resource for a dynamic and productive classroom. Say goodbye to sluggish afternoons and hello to energised, focused, and happy students!
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Get your students learning about the costume design for the professional set works through games and kinesthetic learning - **PAPER DOLLS DRESS ME UP
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This resource includes all of the costumes and clothing props from all of the set works. The Artificial Things costumes have been designed to reflect the unique dripping paint effect on the costumes and there is even personal jewellery for the Emancipation of Expressionism dancers!
Download this resource and get your students to help you cut out each image. Laminate them to make them last longer!
You will also receive a free resource in PDF file formats of human body outlines for you to print and cut on card if you cannot/do not want to buy the wooden people from HobbyCraft that I used.
Get the students to play dress me up and see if they can correctly dress up dancers from the Anthology set works!
I buy wooden people from Hobbycraft - £3 for a pack of 8 people and use blue tac to allow the students to stick the costumes onto it.
EXAM BOARD: AQA
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Get your students learning about the costume design for the professional set works through games and kinesthetic learning - **PAPER DOLLS DRESS ME UP
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This resource includes all of the costumes and clothing props from all of the set works. The Artificial Things costumes have been designed to reflect the unique dripping paint effect on the costumes and there is even personal jewellery for the Emancipation of Expressionism dancers!
Download this resource and get your students to help you cut out each image. Laminate them to make them last longer!
You will also receive a free resource in PDF and PNG file formats of human body outlines for you to print and cut on card if you cannot/do not want to buy the wooden people from HobbyCraft that I used.
Get the students to play dress me up and see if they can correctly dress up dancers from the Anthology set works!
I buy wooden people from Hobbycraft - £3 for a pack of 8 people and use blue tac to allow the students to stick the costumes onto it.
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Display this poster in your dance studio or classroom to engage your students in learning! This series of posters includes all of the TECHNICAL SKILLS, as part of the performance skills, with their AQA definition and examples. The posters includes graphics of dancers which show inclusive and diverse dance practice, showing equality. The graphics are designed to help aid the students understanding of key terminology and meaning.
This file includes all 7 TECHNICAL skills and comes as an A3 PDF printable file AND PNG IMAGE FILE.
#GCSEDance #AQADance #Performanceskills #technicalskills #diversity #inclusive #inclusivedance #diversedance #poster #display #keyterminology #definitions #actioncontent #dynamiccontent #relationshipcontent #spatialcontent #movementstyle #timingcontent #timing #rhythm #rhythmiccontent #dance #choreography #dancetheory
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If your students struggle to access the mark schemes for all of the practical components in a table format, use these images to break it down for them.
Visual analogies have been used for each component to support student understanding and to make it accessible (especially for SEN, EAL and LA) students who struggle with pure text and numbers.
I have developed simple, yet effective ideas to support them in what they need to do to achieve a higher grade with examples.
This bundle includes both performance (Set phrases + Performance in a duet) and a NEW and UPDATED Choreography mark scheme categories of the mark scheme and what content they need to use, apply and demonstrate to be successful. It includes key information and how many marks each category it is out of. Print these off and get them to organise it in a way that suits them, as individual images, or a booklet etc.
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This game is my KS1 CHRISTIAN CHRISTMAS Edition of the popular card game D.O.B.B.L.E
Get your children or class playing with these festive cards and identifying features of the Christmas Season! Support their understanding of this religious holiday with key icons, symbols and figures that represent this Christian holiday.
A fun way of getting into the merry season and it keeps them off their screens!
It’s a playful way of learning and could even be used for cover lessons or a reward at the end of a lesson!
I think learning through games is so beneficial and who doesn’t love a card game?!
This pack includes 31 cards with 6 images on each card. Print this as many times as you like to create a few packs!
PRINT, CUT AND PLAY!
(Instructions provided for print settings)
How does it work? It is a snap style game. Every card has one matching icon on it and there are a few ways of playing it, whether that be trying to collect as many cards as possible or getting rid of your cards in hand. Students call out the matching icon on their top card and the card everyone is looking at. The game comes with instructions, for example: PLAY THIS WAY: Deal out all, but 1, of the cards to all players leaving one in the center of the playing area, with the pictures face up. Each player must then find the identical symbol between their card and the card in the center of the table (on the draw pile). If a player finds an identical symbol, they shout out the matching symbol and then they put down that card in the center, revealing a new card to be matched up. The player who gets rid of their cards first, wins!
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This game is my KS1 HALLOWEEN Edition of the popular card game D.O.B.B.L.E Get your children or class playing with these spook-tacular cards and identifying objects and creepy things!
A fun way of getting into the scary season and keeps them off their screens!
It’s a playful way of learning and could even be used for cover lessons or a reward at the end of a lesson!
I think learning through games is so beneficial and who doesn’t love a card game?!
This pack includes 31 cards with 6 images on each card. Print this as many times as you like to create a few packs!
PRINT, CUT AND PLAY!
(Instructions provided for print settings)
How does it work? It is a snap style game. Every card has one matching icon on it and there are a few ways of playing it, whether that be trying to collect as many cards as possible or getting rid of your cards in hand. Students call out the matching icon on their top card and the card everyone is looking at. The game comes with instructions, for example: PLAY THIS WAY: Deal out all, but 1, of the cards to all players leaving one in the center of the playing area, with the pictures face up. Each player must then find the identical symbol between their card and the card in the center of the table (on the draw pile). If a player finds an identical symbol, they shout out the matching symbol and then they put down that card in the center, revealing a new card to be matched up. The player who gets rid of their cards first, wins!
Display this poster in your dance studio or classroom to engage your students in learning! This series of posters includes all of the EXPRESSIVE SKILLS, as part of the performance skills, with their AQA definition and examples. The posters includes graphics of dancers which show inclusive and diverse dance practice, showing equality. The graphics are designed to help aid the students understanding of key terminology and meaning.
This file includes all 8 EXPRESSIVE skills and comes as an A3 PDF printable file.
#GCSEDance #AQADance #Performanceskills #expressiveskills #diversity #inclusive #inclusivedance #diversedance #poster #display #keyterminology #definitions #musicality #projection #focus #phrasing #sensitivitytootherdancers #spatialawareness #communicationofchoreographicintent #dance #choreography #dancetheory
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This game is my KS3/KS4 MUSIC Edition of the popular card game D.O.B.B.L.E Get your children or class learning and identifying a range of instruments and music symbols!
It’s a fun way of learning and could even be used for cover lessons or a reward at the end of a lesson!
I think learning through games is so beneficial!
This pack includes 31 cards with 6 images on each card. Print this as many times as you like to create a few packs!
PRINT, CUT AND PLAY! (Printing setting instructions provided).
How does it work? It is a snap style game. Every card has one matching icon on it and there are a few ways of playing it, whether that be trying to collect as many cards as possible or getting rid of your cards in hand. Students call out the matching icon on their top card and the card everyone is looking at. The game comes with instructions, for example: PLAY THIS WAY: Deal out all, but 1, of the cards to all players leaving one in the center of the playing area, with the pictures face up. Each player must then find the identical symbol between their card and the card in the center of the table (on the draw pile). If a player finds an identical symbol, they shout out the matching symbol and then they put down that card in the center, revealing a new card to be matched up. The player who gets rid of their cards first, wins!