Dance

National curriculum content.

• Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance.
• Perform dances using a range of movement patterns.

Lesson objectives

1. Perform dances using a range of movement patterns.
2. Link movement patterns together.
3. Work on your own, with a partner or in a group.
4. Create, practise and perform more complex dances.
5. Perform as various characters when moving to music.
6. Communicate feelings through dance.

What we want children to know

• Counting the beat helps them stay in time with the music, enables them to time their moves correctly and to move with rhythm.
• Unison is performing the same movement at the same time.
• What a beat of 8 is – count 8 beats and then restart the count after 8.
• Canon is performing a movement one after another.
• The purpose of a cool down is to decrease the heart rate to its resting rate.
• Rhythm is the timing of dance movements / actions to the music.
• Dance phrase is a series of movements that are linked together to form part of the overall choreography of the dance.
• You should always look at the audience when performing (unless stated).
• Choreography is the sequence of steps and movements in a dance.
• The three different levels in dance are high, medium or low.

What skills we want children to develop

• Respond imaginatively to a range of stimuli.
• Move confidently and safely in your own and general space, using changes of speed, level and direction.
• Perform movement phrases using a range of different body actions and body part- with control and accuracy.
• Create linked movement, combing different ways of travelling with beginnings, middles and ends.
• Compose short dances that express and communicate mood, ideas and feelings, varying simple compositional ideas.
• Explore, remember and repeat short dance phrases, showing greater control and spatial awareness.

Vocabulary

Dance, routine, music, co-ordination, tutting, beat of 8, canon, unison, count, fluency, choreography, performance

Badminton

National curriculum content

• Use running, jumping, throwing and catching in isolation and in combination. 
• Play competitive games, modified where appropriate, and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.
• Compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.

Lesson objectives

1. Can watch, track and catch a shuttle successfully.
2. To perform a basic forehand action with increasing accuracy.
3. To perform a basic backhand shot with increasing control.
4. To keep a rally going using a range of shots. To hit a shuttle into space (at different speeds and heights) to try beat an opponent.
5. To compete with others.

What we want children to know

• Throwing the shuttle high and far is a positive and beneficial shot in badminton.

• When throwing the shuttle the weakest arm should be pointing towards target, the throwing arm should be pulled behind the head and pushed forward when ready to throw.
• Using a racket safely and sensibly involves:

- Only use/swing the racket in designated areas.

-Taking care with when moving around others.

-Behaving sensibly with a badminton racket in your control.

• Coordination and movement is an important element in all games.

What skills we want children to develop

• Continue to improve control of the shuttle, with and without the racket, developing different movements and skills to play varied types of shot including a forehand and a lift.
• Can hit the shuttle, when in the air, varying height, speed, and direction into space to beat an opponent.
• Use different skills to try and win games.
• Work together to keep a rally going, returning the shuttle to a partner.
• With increasing accuracy, perform a forehand and backhand shuttle serve, hitting the shuttle with confidence and control.
• Can move around the court with purpose, demonstrating a fast-paced chasse movement in isolation and in games.
• Show a good stance and structure when throwing and hitting the shuttle.

Vocabulary

Badminton, court, shuttle, movement, serve, racket, net, rally, coordination, grip