Year 1 - Physical education
Dance: can you create actions to tell the story of a real life hero?
Remote learning: an introduction to dance
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Unit Summary
The unit of work will challenge pupils to respond to the changing stimuli using a range of different and controlled actions, showing character, expression, control and accuracy. Pupils will learn how to co-ordinate their bodies to create short sequences.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to use your actions to tell the story of a real life superhero.
Key Notes
- Move: control and accuracy help us to perform actions to accurately tell a story.
- Think: linking actions to tell a story requires concentration and focus.
- Feel: performing a quality sequence requires self-belief.
- Connect: sharing ideas with others requires performing our sequence accurately.
Vocabulary To Learn
- story: a description of events, real or imaginary, told in a structured way with a beginning, middle and an end
- linking: successfully adding two movements together so that they flow one after the other
- hero: a person admired for their courage, noble qualities or outstanding achievements and can also be a character with superpowers who uses them to help or protect others
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Dance has to be to music.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: control and accuracy help us to perform actions to accurately tell a story. Think: linking actions to tell a story requires concentration and focus.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'story'
a description of events, real or imaginary, told in a structured way with a beginning, middle and an end.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Dance has to be to music. Correction: Dance can tell stories and actions can be linked to words not just music.
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