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This KS4 GCSE Dance Component 2: Dance Appreciation Walking Talking Mock is for teachers of AQA GCSE Dance who are preparing their pupils for the actual GCSE written paper. The PowerPoint presentation set over 3 lessons (1 lesson per section) guides pupils though the specimen written paper that can be found on the AQA GCSE website. Each question is broken down so that pupils clearly understand what is being asked of them and know how to gain full marks for each question (using AQA’s specimen mark scheme). Each lesson (each section) comes with its own starter activity (bell task) and lesson objectives. Section B includes talking points to help pupils articulate their ideas before writing their answers down. Section B also comes with some example answers. PLEASE NOTE: the example answers I compiled from different recourses that I found online but not from TES resources. Section C I created myself (Only using AQA’s specimen paper for guidance). I have included the answer booklet for section C within this resource (the specimen paper for sections A and B can be found on AQA’s website). Section C includes planning slides to help pupils plan for the 6 and 12 mark questions. Section C also comes with some example answers. PLEASE NOTE: the example answers I compiled from different recourses that I found online but not from TES resources. Section C includes questions on Emancipation of expressionism, Artificial Things and Shadows so is ideal to be taught midway through Y10 (after teaching Emancipation of Expressionism, Artificial Things and Shadows) following the advice from AQA or at any point onwards as part of the revision process. The creation of the PowerPoint was very time consuming. Feel free to create your own or save a lot of time by downloading mine.

This ‘Intro to Dance’ 6 lesson SOL and delivery PowerPoint is for teachers teaching dance at the beginning of Year 7 (or whenever dance is first introduced in your school). Purpose: This SOL is to be taught right at the beginning of Year 7. Lesson 1 is designed to inform pupils of the dance studio rules and what to expect from their secondary school dance lessons. Throughout this SOL, pupils will gain and develop basic performance skills through working as a whole class to perform a teacher taught phrase that consists of the different dance body action. Working in small groups, students will gain and develop basic choreography skills through the creation of their own phrase using the knowledge gained through the performance task and will have the opportunity to view each other’s work and provide feedback to improve their own and other’s work. Throughout this SOL there is an emphasis on safety in the dance studio where pupils will develop knowledge and understanding of basic health and safety requirements for dance. Includes: 6 lesson (60 min per lesson) delivery PowerPoint with: ‘Enquiry questions’, ‘Do Now’ activities, ‘TIF (Take It Further) challenges’, YouTube clips and level descriptors. 6 body actions dance tutorial STAR marking grid Mark sheet Theory task Cover work Dance feedback toolkit

This resource is for teachers teaching dance at KS3. This SOL was created with my Year 9 class in mind. However can be adapted to suit your own class/year group. My ‘All Around The World’ SOL was created to explore known and lesser known dance styles from around the world. The SOL begins with 5x2 hours worth of workshops exploring different dance styles/countries/continents . Pupils then choose which country/continent/dance style they will represent in the showcase that features at the end of the SOL. This resource comes with: 2 hour Britain dance workshop PowerPoint 2 hour Africa dance workshop PowerPoint 2 hour Asia dance workshop PowerPoint 2 hour South America workshop PowerPoint (which includes my own YouTube tutorial) 2 hour USA workshop PowerPoint 7 hour/week ‘Create, Perform and Evaluate’ delivery PowerPoint Create laminated handout resource (intended to be printed back to back so that the TIF is on 1 side and the normal task is on the other). SOL overview I created this SOL before I started my maternity leave. Therefore, there are lots of YouTube links to help a non dance specialist deliver the dance content. Some teachers played the YouTube clips directly to the pupils, others chose to lean the content from the clip but teach the pupils themselves. Feel free to use this SOL as you wish and edit and change it until your heart is content. All YouTube clips worked at the time of creating this SOL. Enjoy! :)

This resource is for teachers of Level 3 BTEC Performing Arts, teaching Unit 12 Unit 12: Contemporary Dance Technique The practitioners that I choose to focus on are: Early pioneers - Isadora Duncan and Rudolf Laban Later developments - Merce Cunningham Jose Limon and Martha Graham Current developments - Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Hofesh Schechter and Stephanie Lake This resource takes around 12x2hour lessons to teach. Alot of the resource has been created using the online specification and YouTube clips which all had active links at the time of publishing this resource. In the event of YouTube clips being taken down, I have added notes under some of the slides with advice. Feel free to use/adapt this resource to suit your own needs. Under the ‘log’ slides it says " Provide pupils with log guidance resource" I have not included this as what I use in class exists as a hard copy only. I hope you like this resource and it saves you time planning.

UPDATED AND IMPROVED ON 21/02/2022 This resource is for KS1 teachers teaching dance through the Physical Education part of the national curriculum during the topic of toys (or any topic connected to toys, gifts, celebration etc). This ‘Toys’ scheme of work is great to teach after the holiday season. It allows pupils to share their holiday experience through emotion and movement games along with developing their creativity through choreography tasks. This SOL comes with: 6 lesson plans, detailing the activities in each lesson along with coaching points to aid teaching. A 6 lesson PowerPoint including notes under each slide to help with the delivery of the lesson. A CPD document that should help with aspects of teaching dance that a none dance specialist might find helpful. Notes: The timings of the lesson and the activities within the lesson plans can of course be adapted. Activities can be changed, lengthened, shortened, taken out, differentiated etc. Feel free to adapt this resource to suit your own needs as well as the needs of the children. Feel free to use your own music. I used ‘Epic Music – Toys Come Alive’ on YouTube I loved teaching this SOL and I hope you do too. If you find it helpful, I would massively appreciate it if you could leave me a review 

We have our Year 6 open evening coming up and the whole school theme is ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’. The creative Arts department has decided to split up into the different Harry Potter houses to provide an interactive experience for the y6 pupils to get involved in. For dance I chose Ravenclaw House (As Ravenclaw is the best!) and in the dance studio a charms class will be taking place. A selection of Y10 and Y12 pupils will be working in pairs. One pupil having the wand and the other being controlled by the wand as if under a spell. As the wand moves around, the pupil ‘under the spell’ will move around mimicking the actions, dynamic and space that relates to the wands movements. After the Y6s have watched a demonstration, they will be able to take part either as the person controlling the wand or the one ‘under the spell’. The aim of the Charms lesson will be for pupils to learn how to control the movements of others with their wands. If they can learn to control the movements of others, they will be able to control the movements of fantastic beasts. In the background, a mixture of music featured in the Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts films will be played and a mixture of blue and silver gel lights will be lit in the dance studio (for Ravenclaw) to create a magical ambiance. The Art department kindly made me 6 wands that I could use. In this resource there is a PowerPoint slide that you can project throughout the lesson. Feel free try this yourself, and let me know how it goes for you in the reviews. :)

I have created this 6 week ‘All Around the World’ home learning project with the intention of setting my Year 9 dance class one task a week (while working from home due to COVID19), starting on the 1st June. Each week investigates dance related to a particular country/continent and throughout the project, pupils who engage with the task will develop skills and knowledge needed at KS4, whether pupils are planning to study BTEC or GCSE dance. If you think you will find it useful too, feel free to use it yourself :) (Note: TIF means Take It Further and is a challenge task)

Updated: 11/08/22 This Rock and Roll 6 lesson SOL is for teachers teaching year KS3 dance (ideally year 7 after teaching ‘Intro to Dance’. This is a fun and energetic SOL designed for pupils to have fun while learning performance, choreography and appreciation skills through the Rock and Roll dance style. The PowerPoint is structured around my choreography of ‘Jail House Rock’ From the Blues Brothers musical and some of the terminology used e.g. ‘pancake roll’ is terminology that I use rather than being a technical term. This is not a PowerPoint that you will be able to use unedited. Feel free to edit for whichever Rock and Roll song you would like to use. Includes: • 6 lesson (60 min per lesson) delivery PowerPoint with: ‘Enquiry questions’, ‘Do Now’ activities, ‘TIF (Take It Further) challenges’, YouTube clips and level descriptors. • STAR marking grid • Mark sheet • Dance feedback toolkit

This resource is for teachers of Level 3 BTEC Performing Arts, teaching Unit 2 Developing skills and techniques for live performance. I share a class with my colleague who focuses on Learning Aim A and Learning Aim B-D from a drama point of view. This resource is what I teach in my lessons, focusing on Learning Aims B-D from a dance point of view. The dance styles that I cover are Ballet, Jazz and Contemporary and then use sections of Alvin Ailey’s Revelations for the performance piece. This resource takes around 12x2hour lessons to teach. Alot of the resource has been created using the online specification and YouTube clips which all had active links at the time of publishing this resource. In the event of YouTube clips being taken down, I have added notes under some of the slides with advice. Feel free to use/adapt this resource to suit your own needs. Under the ‘log’ slides it says " Provide pupils with log guidance resource" I have not included this as what I use in class exists as a hard copy only. I hope you like this resource and it saves you time planning.

KS4 AQA GCSE Dance Revision – Component 2: Section C This resource has been designed for teachers of GCSE dance revising the dance anthology in preparation for the written exam. This lesson has been created to provide a way for dance students to revise in a fun and interactive way. Prior to the lesson, decide how you are going to divide your class into 6 groups (ideally a mixture of high and low ability in each group). Each group should be given a large piece of paper with one of the 6 dance anthology pieces written in the middle, then use the PowerPoint. I spent approximately 5 min per slide and got the pupils to rotate around the room rather than the paper. You will need the six anthology fact files found on the AQA GCSE Dance website for the latter part of the lesson. Once the lesson is complete you will have revision display posters created by the dance pupils themselves.

A bit different to the usual dance resources I upload. However, I have created a 1 hour lesson delivery PowerPoint on the theme of social media and how people on social media don’t always show their true selves. Please note, this PowerPoint does not cover cyber crimes, grooming etc. It is much more about how young people may feel about themselves and how they might compare themselves to others based on what they see online. In this PowerPoint you will find lesson objectives, a bell activity (starter), discussion tasks, talking points, TIF tasks and links to YouTube clips (one clip is also embedded). I have also included a marking sheet that can be stuck into pupils books to aid quick marking. My Y10 tutor group loved it and really got stuck in. I hope yours do too.

UPDATED AND IMPROVED ON 03/10/2021 This resource is for KS1 teachers teaching dance through the Physical Education part of the national curriculum during the topic of Sea Creatures (or any topic connected to sea creatures, oceans, water etc. This ‘Sea Creatures’ SOL allows pupils to discover the magic of the sea as well as developing their dance knowledge. Through play, games, activities and group work, pupils will learn how to use a stimulus (sea creatures) to create actions and dance phrases that will develop into a final dance performance piece. This SOL comes with: 6 lesson plans, detailing the activities in each lesson along with coaching points to aid teaching. A 6 lesson PowerPoint including notes under each slide to help with the delivery of the lesson. A document with the pictures of each of the sea creatures to be explored. These can be printed and laminated to hand out to groups so that they know which animal they have been assigned to. A CPD document that should help with aspects of teaching dance that a none dance specialist might find helpful. Notes: The timings of the lesson and the activities within the lesson plans can of course be adapted. Activities can be changed, lengthened, shortened, taken out, differentiated etc. Feel free to adapt this resource to suit your own needs as well as the needs of the children. Feel free to use your own music. I used ‘Under the Sea’ from The Little Mermaid for the routine itself and instrumental music from the Finding Nemo soundtrack while pupils were taking part in creative group tasks. I loved teaching this SOL and I hope you do too. If you find it helpful, I would massively appreciate it if you could leave me a review 

This resource is for teachers of AQA GCSE dance. This is my years worth of Year 10 planning/PowerPoints/resources. Each half term focuses on one of the professional works from the GCSE Dance anthology; exploring the professional work through choreography, performance and appreciation tasks (following the advice from AQA). This resource is tried and tested and I am proud to say that my pupils have enjoyed the variety of tasks included and have felt confident completing year 10 in preparation for Year 11. The Year’s worth of resources should be followed in the following order: 1st Half term – Emancipation of Expressionism 2nd Half term – Artificial Things 3rd Half Term – Shadows 4th Half Term – A Linha Curva 5th Half term – Infra 6th Half Term – Within Her Eyes Note: I am not currently teaching GCSE dance (currently teaching BTEC Performing Arts instead) and therefore not currently using this resource. The last time I checked, all links and QR codes worked. Links to the anthology performances are from EAQA. If any links stop working, please find the updated ones on EAQA. I hope you enjoy this resource and it saves you time planning :)

This resource is for teachers of GCSE dance. With the help of the online AQA glossary, I have created a excel document with 3 tabs: Choreography, Performance and Appreciation. I have printed and laminated each tab (A3) to use as posters in my dance studio. My dancers find these posters really helpful to refer to in class.

This resource has been designed for teachers of GCSE dance revising choreographic devices and choreographic intent within the anthology, in preparation for the written exam. This lesson has been created to provide a way for dance students to revise in a fun and interactive way. Prior to the lesson, decide how you are going to divide your class into 6 groups (ideally a mixture of high and low ability in each group). After the starter activity on the PowerPoint sit pupils in their groups and give them access to one of the GCSE dance anthology dances each, either on their phones or iPads. Links to GCSE dance anthology dances can be found on EAQA but you will need a log in to access them. While watching their given dance piece, pupils should write notes about the choreographic devices that they see. Discuss with each group how the choreographic devices relates to the choreographic intent of the piece. After the discussion, give each group their exam question handout and allow pupils to answer the 2 questions (using their notes to help them).

This ‘A Linha Curva’ 6 lesson SOW and delivery PowerPoint is for teachers teaching dance at KS3. Using the professional work taught at GCSE level, it will allow pupils to explore the professional work through performance, choreography and appreciation activities suitable for their age range. The delivery PowerPoint includes starters in the form of ‘bell activities’/‘talking points’ for each lesson, homework and assessment activities at week 3 and week 6 to record progress. ‘A Linha Curva’ is an upbeat fun SOW that my year 7 pupils have loved. It really beings out their creativity and love for dance.

This 'Artificial Things’ 6 lesson SOW and delivery PowerPoint is for teachers teaching dance at KS3. Using the professional work taught at GCSE level, it will allow pupils to explore the professional work through performance, choreography and appreciation activities suitable for their age range. The delivery PowerPoint includes starters in the form of ‘bell activities’/‘talking points’ for each lesson, homework and assessment activities at week 3 and week 6 to record progress.