SUBJECT: Dance KS2 or 3 Suitable for PE lessons on Dance This single lesson is a great way to explore the concept of “kinesphere” in dance Suitable for year 6 and 7 students will explore space to create their own motifs. Teacher must create for themself an 8 count phrases to teach as part of the lesson making use of a range of small and large actions for students to develop. It should be simple enough to pick up quickly

Created for: BTEC Level 3 unit 13 - The Healthy Dancer Suitable for: GCSE PE (Dance specialism) This is a 70 page ppt covering several topics to enable students to create their own fitness program . Topics include: Structure of human body: Skeletal System, Muscular System, Circulatory System, Nervous System, Respiratory System Functions of the human body Factors that affect training The effects of training on each system covered above Injury prevention and care Aspects of fitness Safe Dance Practice

SUBJECT: Dance KS2/ 3 In this pack you will find 3 resources: SOW suitable for KS2 and 3 dance (year 6/7) based on the idea of Heroes and Villains. This is a great scheme for keeping boys engages and easily adapted to suit in person and online teaching. Two full lesson PPT: Describing a dance idea from a stimulus (all theory/ written) and then creating a solo motif and developing it. If you are using flipgrid or google classroom these can be filmed by the students and sent to you.

Attached is two full lessons for online learning KS3 Dance. Lesson 1: using a stimulus to describe a dance idea and 3 motif ideas Lesson 2: Creating these motifs and developing Actions, Space and Dynamics At the end of the ppt are suggestions to take this into a full 6 week lesson SOW

Subject: Dance A Level Area: Writing essays One area that students struggle with in A Level dance is essay writing. In this pack you will find a few hand outs that have helped my students understand the structure of their essays. It includes a resource on: The “isms” meaning romanticism, classicism , modernism, post modernism. This will allow your students to connect context to content when writing about key works. Structuring your dance analysis: focus on the literary skills required for good essay writing Analysis reminder sheet (simple version) Peer marking assessment sheet: this is great for students as it allows them to mark each others essays by breaking them down into component parts.

Subject: A Level Dance Area: Essay style questions In this bundle you will find 12 essay style questions mark sheets for your students. I asked my students to always attach the sheet to the front of their work. It allows you to mark essays consistently and provided feedback linked to the criteria.

This is single lesson on improving your jumping in dance. It can be used for both BTEC Performing arts dance and GCSE Dance I created this because my students were struggling to really “get off the floor” so we spent one lesson really focused on it.

Subject: A level Dance (AQA) Also suitable for: BTEC level 2 and 3 with adaptations This lesson can be used to teach either in person or online. It is double lesson and can be extended to 3 lessons if you need more time. Students are guided to explore the style and create their own Robbins motif and then evaluate another persons. This is an easy to follow lesson and can be included in your A Level SOW on the optional area of study - Jazz I have also included a resource on major jazz contributors in for reference.

Subject: Dance Curriculum: Suitable for A Level Dance and BTEC level 2 and 3 Performing Arts Two resources to help your students studying West Side Story Overview of “The Sharks” describing who is who Overview of all characters in West Side Story I found this helped my students understand the story better and later make connections between the dance elements and how they communicate character and relationships.

Subject: A Level Dance AQA Area of Study: Jazz Dance The resource provides an overview of 4 of his works (videos available on youtube) and resouce for students to complete as you deliver the information provided and watch excerpts of each piece. The works discussed are: Fancy Free Call Me Madam Shall We Dance The Cage

This PPT is a sequence of 10 lesson (2 hours lessons) for A Level Dance It has a both information and activities for your students It includes information on the following practitioners and there influences on the development of this style: African Roots European Influences Mistral shows Buddy Bradley and Fred Astaire Busby Berkley Jack Cole Katherine Dunham Gene Kelly (Singing in the Rain) Jerome Robbins (West Side Story) Bob Fosse Matt Mattox, Luigi and Gus Giodorno DANNY BURACZESKI Twyla Tharp

With the run up to the Olympics this was a a really fun session. It is for a double period and the resources I have added are based specificaly around Australia. This could easily be adapted to also suit KS2. I have provided the task briefs that I used but again these could be adapted to suit your students. Have fun, we did and we also created some excellent work for display!