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