Homewood School 14

Dance

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Key Stage Three

Term Year 7 Year 8

Term One: Autumn Term

Mission Impossible

Developing performance skills

Parkour

Exploring performance skills and contact work

Term Two: Christmas Term

Ghost Dances

Exploring choreography from a professional works

Hunger Games

Exploring choreography through creating movements that link to the main themes to the narrative of Hunger Games

Term Three: Winter Term

Aladdin

Developing performance skills and exploring contact work with characters

Thriller

Developing performance skills through learning direct choreography from famous choreography and building our characteristics

Term Four: Easter Term

Shadows Poem Stimuli

Exploring accuracy with taught movement from a specific stimuli/theme

Fear Contemporary Solo

Learning a technical phrase of movement linked to a theme of how humans physically react to fears/phobias

Term Five: Spring Term

Earth Trilogy

Exploring cross curricular subjects in dance

Geography topics explored through choreographing and creating own movement

Bugsy Malone

Learning how to apply specific characterisation to partner work choreography

Term Six: Summer Term

The Junglebook

Exploring cross curricular subjects in dance

English topics explored through choreographing and creating own movement

Dance Styles

Learning different dance styles from around the world such as street dance, Irish, Bollywood, Break dance, Jive, Lindyhop and more

 

Key Stage Four

AQA GCSE Dance

 

Year 10

Year 11

Term One: Autumn

Anthology Work One: Choreographic Devices

Performance Trio Examination

Group Choreography Stimulus Exploration

Revision for PPE

Term Two: Christmas

Anthology Work Two: Group Performance Piece

Group Choreography 1

Set Phrases Exam

Term Three: Winter

Anthology Work Three: Structuring Devices

Group Choreography 2

 

Term Four: Spring

Anthology Work Four: Choreography from a Stimuli (mock)

Anthology Work Five: Set Phrases

Choreography Exams

Theory Revision

Term Five: Summer

Anthology Work Six: Performance Trio/ Set Phrases

Theory Revision

Written Exam

Key Stage Five

RSL Level 3 Diploma in Performing and Creative Arts

 

Year 12

Year 13

Term One: Autumn

Ensemble Dance

Dance Technique and Performance

Planning a Career

 

Repertory Dance

Choreography

 

Term Two: Christmas

Ensemble Dance

Dance Technique and Performance

Leading Dance

Planning a Career

Repertory Dance 

Choreography 

 

Term Three: Winter

Dance Technique and Performance

Leading Dance

Planning a Career

Performance Preparation 

 

Term Four: Spring

Dance Technique and Performance

Leading Dance

Planning a Career

Dance in the Community

Performance Preparation

Choreography

 

Term Five: Summer

Dance Technique and Performance

Leading Dance

Planning a Career

Dance in the Community

Performance Preparation Resit

Resubmission opportunities