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Dance
- Members of Staff and Roles/Responsibilities
- Subject Overview
- KS3 Structure
- KS3 Content
- KS4 Structure
- KS4 Content
- Additional Information
Members of Staff and Roles/Responsibilities
| Miss V Astwood | Teacher in Charge of Dance and Teacher of Drama |
| Ms L Douglas | Teacher of Dance and Drama |
| Miss C Matthew | Teacher of Dance and Drama |
Dance Overview
Dance is taught in tutor groups at Key Stage 3 for 1/2 year, and in mixed ability option groups at Key Stage 4. Performance, Choreography and Appreciation are the three key components upon which the schemes of work are based.
KS3 Structure
1x hour lesson per week, 1/2 year only.
All students will have an individual exercise book in which to record their written work.
Dance staff will keep videoed examples of sampled student performance and choreography work.
KS3 Content
Year 7 |
Year 8 |
Year 9 |
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| Students Grouped | Mixed ability tutor Groups | Mixed ability tutor Groups | Mixed ability tutor Groups |
| Topics Studied | What is dance.
5 Body Actions. What is a stimulus. |
Choreographic Devices.
Why warm up and cool down. Decades in Dance. Developing choreography. |
Styles of Dance.
Nutrition. Set technical study. Choreography based on Hunder Wasser. |
| Activities | Looking at the 4 key areas of Dance. Actions, Space, Dynamics and Relationships.
Learn the five body actions and how to develop a motif. Create dances based on a variety of stimuli such as poems, recycling and shapes.
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Focus on how to choreograph a piece of Dance and devices to use.
Learn the importance of safe practise in Dance. Looking back at various styles and eras of dance. Cross curricula work with Textiles and Science creating a dance using the stimulus Solid, Liquid and Gas. |
Learn the development of Dance styles focus on Ballet, Contemporary and Jazz. Learn about what makes a balanced diet. Learn a technical study taken form the GCSE syllabyus in preparation for year 10 options. Cross Curricular work with Textiles and Art creating a piece of dance using skills acquired in years 7-9 based on the artist Hunder Wasser. |
KS4 Structure
Year 10x 2 hours a week
Year 11x 3 hours a week
The AQA Syllabus 3231 for GCSE Dance is followed, with set areas of study and performance / choreography components.
The course is 70% practical, the students prepare performances and choreography which are internally marked and externally moderated. They also write a programme note about their choreography worth 10% and sit a 2 hour-long written paper at the end of Year 11 which is externally marked and worth 20%
During Year 10 the course is more practically based, and in Year 11 the introduction of written analysis and evaluation work is introduced.
KS4 Content
Year 10 |
Year 11 |
Option groups (mixed ability)
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Option groups (mixed ability)
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Craft of choreography Appreciation of professional dances Technique and Performance |
Craft of choreography Appreciation of professional dances Technique and Performance |
Composition: Composing solo, duo and group dances to develop understanding of relationship between content and form in the expression of the dance idea Appreciation: A critical and contextual study of the meaning and significance of students own dances and those of others, through description, interpretation and evaluation Performance: A study of the technical and expressive nature of dance skills through the performance of studies and dances |
Composition: Composing solo, duo and group dances to develop understanding of relationship between content and form in the expression of the dance idea Appreciation: A critical and contextual study of the meaning and significance of students own dances and those of others, through description, interpretation and evaluation Performance: A study of the technical and expressive nature of dance skills through the performance of studies and dances |
Additional Information
Dance and Drama in Expressive Arts are popular subjects at Sir Jonathan North Community College. We have regular Dance and Drama clubs at lunchtimes and after school, culminating in performances for the Whole College Production which is usually at December and then a large work share from across the key stages and year which happens towards the end of the summer term. There are aslo opprotunites in Dance to be part of the fashion shows, wearing the garments that they design and create in their Textiles classes.
