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BackKey Stage Three
Contact: Miss H Sargeant
| Term | Year 7 | Year 8 | Year 9 (Performing Arts) |
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Term One: Autumn Term |
Mission Impossible Developing performance skills |
Parkour Exploring performance skills and contact work |
Developing technique through learning and developing technical dance phrases |
Term Two: Christmas Term |
Ghost Dances Exploring choreography from a professional works |
Hunger Games Exploring choreography through creating movements that link to the main themes to the narrative of Hunger Games |
Creating an ensemble dance piece based on professional work exploring themes of social, political or historical context |
Term Three: Winter Term |
Aladdin Developing performance skills and exploring contact work with characters |
Thriller Developing performance skills through learning direct choreography from famous choreography and building our characteristics |
Dance for camera, exploring how to choreograph and sell a product resulting in creating a dance advert. |
Term Four: Easter Term |
Shadows Poem Stimuli Exploring accuracy with taught movement from a specific stimuli/theme |
Fear Contemporary Solo Learning a technical phrase of movement linked to a theme of how humans physically react to fears/phobias |
Contact work focusing on learning and developing a duet choreography based on the theme of 'Don't Let Go' |
Term Five: Spring Term |
Earth Trilogy Exploring cross curricular subjects in dance Geography topics explored through choreographing and creating own movement |
Bugsy Malone Learning how to apply specific characterisation to partner work choreography |
Stimuli exploration and developing understanding of devising and choreography and the devices and processes involved in the development of original performance pieces |
Term Six: Summer Term |
The Junglebook Exploring cross curricular subjects in dance English topics explored through choreographing and creating own movement |
Dance Styles Learning different dance styles from around the world such as street dance, Irish, Bollywood, Break dance, Jive, Lindyhop and more |
Collaborative project with Drama students: All students create their own work to perform in The Sinden using all skills they have learnt throughout the course |
Key Stage Four
Contact: Miss H Sargeant (Principal Teacher Dance)
| Term | Year 10 | Year 11 |
|---|---|---|
Autumn Term |
Component 1: Choreography and Performance Exploration of professional work 1 Component 2: Dance Appreciation |
Component 1: Performance Duet/Trio |
Christmas Term |
Component 1: Choreography and Performance Exploration of professional work 2 Exploration of professional work 2 Component 2: Dance Appreciation |
Component 1: |
Winter Term |
Component 1: Choreography and Performance Exploration of professional work 3 Component 2: Dance Appreciation |
Component 1: Choreography |
Easter Term |
Component 1: Choreography and Performance Exploration of professional work 4 Component 2: Dance Appreciation |
Component 1: Choreography |
Spring Term |
Component 1: Choreography and Performance Exploration of professional work 5 Component 2: Dance Appreciation |
Component 1: Choreography |
Summer Term |
Component 1: Choreography and Performance Exploration of professional work 6 Component 2: Dance Appreciation |
Key Stage Five
Dance RSL
Contact: Miss H Sargeant (Principal Teacher)
| Term | Year 12 | Year 13 |
|---|---|---|
Autumn Term |
Ensemble Dance and Planning A Career Unit |
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Christmas Term |
Ensemble Dance and Planning A Career Unit |
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Winter Term |
Safe Dance Practice and Dance Technique and Performance Unit |
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Easter Term |
Safe Dance Practice and Dance Technique and Performance Unit |
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Spring Term |
Dance Technique and Performance Unit |
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Summer Term |
Dance Technique and Performance Unit |