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Year 4 - Physical education

Irish Dancing: Ireland

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 choreograph using the style of a traditional Irish Jig.

Key Notes

  • Move: listening and responding to music using different time signatures requires control and accuracy.
  • Move: pupils can perform the Jig steps using the correct posture with control, balance and accurate timings.
  • Think: learning new actions involves deciding what, where, when and how to move our body.
  • Feel: consistently applying the posture used in Irish dancing requires resilience.
  • Connect: cooperating with others when giving feedback is important when suggesting ideas for improvement.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • Jig: a type of traditional dance that involves jumping
  • posture: the position the body is held in
  • hop: to jump on one foot

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • In dance, you count all music in 8's.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: listening and responding to music using different time signatures requires control and accuracy. Move: pupils can perform the Jig steps using the correct posture with control, balance and accurate timings.

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

a type of traditional dance that involves jumping.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: In dance, you count all music in 8's. Correction: In dance, counting corresponds to the musical time signature which varies enormously. Many are 4/4 timing and can be counted in patterns of 4's or 8's, others may be in contrasting patterns such as 3/4 or 6/8, so would need to be counted accordingly.

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