Key Stage 3
Curriculum Overview
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GCSE Skills
- Physical skills
- Technical skills
- Mental skills
- Expressive skills
- Safe practice
- Choreographic processes
- Motif development through devices
- Production features
- Write coherent short and long mark answers
By the end of year 9, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate physical skills with confidence and consistency
- Use technical skills in choreography and evaluate their success
- Perform in dances using a range of mental skills in a sound manner
- Perform in dances using a range of expressive skills in a sound manner
- Understand the effects of safe practice and implement them
- Choreograph dances using some processes to produce a sound outcome
- Choreograph dances using some devices and have a sound understanding of these
- Identify and discuss all production features, forming own opinions
- Use dance vocabulary to produce a sound spoken/written response
By the end of year 8, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate physical skills with some confidence
- Use some technical skills in choreography
- Perform in dances using some mental skills
- Perform in dances using some expressive skills
- Understand the effects of safe practice and apply these most of the time
- Choreograph dances using some processes including research
- Choreograph dances using some devices to produce a sound outcome
- Identify and appreciate choreography and production features
- Use dance vocabulary to produce a sound response
By the end of year 7, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate 5 physical skills with some confidence
- Use R.A.D.S in choreography
- Perform in dances using a few of these skills
- Perform in dances using a few expressive skills
- Have some understanding of safe practice and can apply these
- Choreograph dances using a few of these processes
- Choreograph dances using a few devices
- Identify some production features in choreography
- Use some dance vocabulary to produce a limited response