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Year 4 - Physical education

Changing formations: Wales

Dance: traditional dances of the British Isles

Unit Summary

A stylistic approach develops Action-Space-Dynamics-Relationships to study dances from other times and places reviewing how and why motifs are repeated and developed. Pupils develop an understanding of the impact of accompaniment, landscape and other design features on action content.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to use a variety of formations when performing a dance.

Key Notes

  • Move: performing actions to correspond to the music demonstrates musicality.
  • Move: performing in time as a group can be helped by one person counting aloud.
  • Think: organising group formations uses decision making skills.
  • Feel: resilience enables us to act on any feedback we are given in order to develop our ideas further.
  • Connect: performing as a group and taking turns requires cooperation.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • formation: how dancers are arranged
  • pathways: the track of a journey
  • location: a position or place

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils think that all dance formations involve facing forwards, side by side.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: performing actions to correspond to the music demonstrates musicality. Move: performing in time as a group can be helped by one person counting aloud.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'formation'

how dancers are arranged.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils think that all dance formations involve facing forwards, side by side. Correction: In traditional dances, the performers typically look straight ahead, but the formations may involve people being side by side, one behind the other, in a circle or sometimes something different such as a star, a square or a double circle.

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