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Year 4 - Physical education

Strathspey: Scotland

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 create an original dance using a precise set of actions.

Key Notes

  • Move: responding and performing actions in time with the music while maintaining precise formations requires musicality.
  • Move: performing a precise set of actions requires control, balance and accuracy.
  • Think: finding different ways to perform an action involves problem solving.
  • Connect: successfully arranging actions with a partner requires cooperation skills.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • Strathspey setting step: a combination of three travelling steps and a small hop
  • formation: how a group of dancers are arranged
  • travel: to move from one location to another

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • Pupils rely on copying others to get the steps right rather than learning the steps themselves.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: responding and performing actions in time with the music while maintaining precise formations requires musicality. Move: performing a precise set of actions requires control, balance and accuracy.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'Strathspey setting step'

a combination of three travelling steps and a small hop.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: Pupils rely on copying others to get the steps right rather than learning the steps themselves. Correction: Exaplain to pupils the importance of showing resilience and rehearsing to become more familiar with the actions, directions and patterns.

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