What’s included in this resource

Duration: 4 – 6 weeks
Key Stage/Grade/Level/Year: Year 10, Age 15-16, Key Stage 4 (Originally designed for Year 10)
Title: Unleash Your Inner Dancer – AQA GCSE Dance Performance Skills Scheme of Work

Introduction: Welcome to “Unleash Your Inner Dancer,” an engaging and comprehensive scheme of work designed to help AQA GCSE Dance students develop their performance skills while understanding their significance and the ways to enhance them. This scheme teaches the physical, technical, mental, and expressive skills, all while prioritising safety and injury prevention. We have created a unit where theory merges with practice.

Unit Overview: In this scheme of work, students will delve into performance skills, gaining an appreciation for their role in creating captivating audiences. Through a series of carefully planned lessons, assessments, and resources, they will enhance their physical abilities, artistic expression, and understanding of the theoretical underpinnings that make dance performances memorable.

Key Features:

1. Detailed Lesson Plans: Each lesson is meticulously crafted to provide step-by-step guidance on teaching performance skills. These plans include adjustments for different learning abilities, extensions for advanced students, challenges to push boundaries, and assessment ideas to monitor progress effectively.
2. Lesson Presentations: Access professionally designed lesson presentations that make learning engaging and interactive, ensuring students grasp the importance of performance skills effectively.
3. Student Practical Journal: Our comprehensive journal covers theory in an enjoyable manner and provides space for self-reflection. This resource encourages students to track their progress, set goals, and develop a deeper understanding of performance skills.
4. Video Resources: Gain access to six videos with detailed movement breakdowns of exercises, accompanied by a music playlist.
5. Homework Booklet with Answers: Provide students with a homework booklet that emphasises safe execution, warm-up routines, and cool-down exercises. The booklet includes answers for easy self-assessment and understanding.
6. End-of-Unit Written Test: Evaluate student comprehension with a thorough end-of-unit written test, complete with answers. This test ensures students have grasped the core concepts and principles of performance skills.
7. Assessment Booklet: This invaluable resource offers a year’s worth of assessments. The first assessment for this unit student-friendly criteria, tick boxes for easy grading, and handy tips on reflection. It serves as a valuable tool for tracking student progress and improvement over time.

Benefits:

• Provides a comprehensive foundation in performance skills for AQA GCSE Dance students.
• Fosters a deeper appreciation for the importance of performance skills in dance.
• Enhances physical abilities, technical, mental skills, and artistic expression.
• Prioritises safety and injury prevention throughout .
• Offers flexibility and adaptability to meet the needs of diverse learners.
• Encourages self-reflection and goal-setting.

Download formats

Our files come in 2 different sets of formats.

You will receive a zip file for Microsoft Office files (MS Word and MS Powerpoint). Please note that the Google Form quizzes are incompatible with Microsoft related products.

You will also receive a link to a shared google drive folder which will allow you to copy files to your own google drive folder allowing you to assign these using the Google Classroom. Full instructions on these are included within the download links.