Dance
National curriculum content
- Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance.
- Perform dances using a range of movement patterns.
Lesson objectives
- To perform dances using a range of movement patterns.
- To link movement patterns together.
- To work on your own, with a partner and in a group.
- To create, practise and perform more complex dances.
- To perform as various characters when moving to music.
- To communicate feelings through dance.
What we want children to know
- Street Dance is a term that originally described dances made up on the street or in parks for fun. Today it is a mainstream style of dance and is often used in pop videos.
- How to be creative with dance moves.
- Tutting is using the body to create geometric shapes and positions, such as boxes, and movements that predominantly use right angles.
- How to perform in time to the beat.
- Unison is performing the same action at the same time.
- How to choreograph their own phrase for the dance as part of a group.
- A dance ‘phrase’ is a series of movements that are linked together to form part of the overall dance.
- Choreography is planning and arranging the movements and actions that form a dance or part of a dance (a phrase).
- How to move in time with the music.
- Mirroring is one person moving, whilst the others copy the actions as if they were a mirror.
- How to evaluate within the lesson.
- How to work well as a group.
- Performance is where we see the ‘final performance’.
What skills we want children to develop
- Explore and create characters and narratives in response to a range of stimuli.
- Perform dances using a range of movement patterns – accurately, fluently, consistently and with control on your own and with a partner.
- Develop dance phrases using canon, unison, repetition, action/reaction, and question/answer.
- Combine actions and maintain the quality of performance, when performing at the same time as a partner.
- Experiment with a wide range of actions, varying and combining spatial patterns, speed, tension, and continuity, when working with a partner and in a group.
Vocabulary
Dance, routine, music, movements, co-ordination, tutting, beat of 8, canon, unison, count, fluency, choreography, performance
Volleyball
National curriculum content
- Play competitive games, modified where appropriate and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
- Compare their performance with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.
Lesson objectives
- To watch the ball as it travels to help with catching/hitting
- To get in line with the ball as it’s travelling
- To perform a ‘dig’ shot
- To react quickly
- To send the ball accurately
- Compete against others
What we want children to know
- Ball flight is the period of time the ball travels through the air after being hit or thrown.
- How to judge the flight ball and get into position to hit/receive it.
- How to get into the ‘ready position’.
- How to throw successfully: aiming, accuracy and power.
- How to vary the type of shot and throw at different heights and speeds.
- How to make use of the space on the court.
- How to play fair and use the skills they have learned.
- To work together as a team and cooperate with each other.
- How to use all the skills learned to play a game of volleyball.
What skills we want children to develop
- Choose and perform the basic skills needed for the games with control and accuracy.
- Throw/send the ball using a variety of techniques.
- Send a ball into space at different speeds and heights to make it difficult for the opponent.
- Take up space or positions that make it difficult for the opponents. Intercept and stop the ball consistently.
- Employ simple tactics in game situations and explain why they have used the tactics.
- Apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
- Adapt a good ‘ready position’ to move and catch a ball.
Vocabulary
Ball flight, ready position, watch the ball, catch, control, throw, ready, watch, hands, aiming, accuracy, power, speed, direction, space, wide, tactics, successful