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Over 60 curriculum-themed schemes of work for Key Stage 1 and 2 dance, planned for you and complete with integrated music. All movement derives from pupils’ own ideas and the lessons follow a clear and simple progression. So, you can deliver lessons confidently, with no prior experience of dance.
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All the music you need is included. You can trigger this directly from a lesson’s bespoke player or using links provided within the text. Alternatively, download mp3 files and play them from your own device. The choice is yours.
Pupil Assessment
Assessment guidelines and printable attainment records are included. So, you can easily guide your class’s development and keep a record of individual pupils’ progress.
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As an essential part of the PE curriculum, each class should carry out a term of dance each year. An all-access licence spreads the cost across your school or academy and, therefore, maximises resources… we’ll leave you to do the maths.
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What different types of bullying can you name? Do you know about cyber, physical, mental & social bullying? How do these make you feel? What can we do to stop them?
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How do you feel right now? What makes you happy? What would be your chosen superpower? Let’s describe it through movement, finding words to describe the feelings this brings. And then share that with a partner.
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‘Wellbeing’ comprises a single-lesson unit that exemplifies the layout and style of the full 6-week Dance Notes schemes. Each complete teaching pack includes a course outline (with aims & objectives and links to preview the music); your 6-week lesson plan; supplementary teaching notes and fully integrated audio tracks.
You can stream music directly from the web and choose whether to download tracks as mp3s or have them delivered on a CD. To browse the full range of teaching packs, preview lessons, audition music or place an order, please visit the Lessons pages.
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Let’s take to the slopes and ice-rinks: gliding, swerving, spinning and jumping. The Winter Olympics is packed with movement and excitement to chase away the cold!
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‘The Winter Olympics’ comprises a single-lesson unit that exemplifies the layout and style of the full 6-week Dance Notes schemes. Each complete teaching pack includes a course outline (with aims & objectives and links to preview the music); your 6-week lesson plan; supplementary teaching notes and fully integrated audio tracks.
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Feel the anticipation when you know your Christmas presents are waiting. Sneak a peep at all the other parcels, then unwrap yours. Nobody can deny the excitement as Christmas nears!
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‘Christmas Presents’ comprises a single-lesson unit that exemplifies the layout and style of the full 6-week Dance Notes schemes. Each complete teaching pack includes a course outline (with aims & objectives and links to preview the music); your 6-week lesson plan; supplementary teaching notes and fully integrated audio tracks.
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India’s Festival of Lights, ‘Diwali’, celebrates the triumph of good over evil. Children become celebratory fireworks, then move to represent the bad and the good!
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‘Diwali – Festival of Lights’ comprises a single-lesson unit that exemplifies the layout and style of the full 6-week Dance Notes schemes. Each complete teaching pack includes a course outline (with aims & objectives and links to preview the music); your 6-week lesson plan; supplementary teaching notes and fully integrated audio tracks.
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Create moves based on traditional dances from these beautiful islands. Find out who the real pirates of the Caribbean were. Then, set sail in your very own pirate ship.
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‘Bubbles’ comprises a single-lesson unit that exemplifies the layout and style of the full 6-week Dance Notes schemes. Each complete teaching pack includes a course outline (with aims & objectives and links to preview the music); your 6-week lesson plan; supplementary teaching notes and fully integrated audio tracks.
You can stream music directly from the web and choose whether to download tracks as mp3s or have them delivered on a CD. To browse the full range of teaching packs, preview lessons, audition music or place an order, please visit the Lessons pages.
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Spring flowers delicately open, then burst with colour. Summer brings fun on the beach. Crops grow tall, swaying in the Autumn breeze. And who can resist playing in the snow? Which is your favourite season?
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‘Apart but Together’ comprises a single-lesson unit that exemplifies the layout and style of the full 6-week Dance Notes schemes. Each complete teaching pack includes a course outline (with aims & objectives and links to preview the music); your 6-week lesson plan; supplementary teaching notes and fully integrated audio tracks.
You can stream music directly from the web and choose whether to download tracks as mp3s or have them delivered on a CD. To browse the full range of teaching packs, preview lessons, audition music or place an order, please visit the Lessons pages.
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Baghdad has a rich and exciting history. Children first represent the Tigris and nearby Euphrates. They then explore how the city grew here and subsequently came under attack.
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Castles are formidably physical. They are also home to lots of action: attacking, defending, tournaments and the bustle of daily life. Explore these through solos, duets and group work.
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‘Going on a Bear Hunt’ gives rise to all sorts of movement ideas: moving like a bear, negotiating obstacles, confronting a scary animal, running away and – of course – hiding. A breathless journey is assured…
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How do light & dark places make us feel? What do we see in the night? And in the day? Working in pairs, become shadows and reflections. Together in groups, can you block-out the light?…
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Fairy Tales provide a rich seam for movement ideas. From beans to beasts; treachery to treasure; ridicule to revelation. And – Once Upon a Time – good always won out in the end!
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Grace Darling lived in a cramped lighthouse with her siblings and their father, the lighthouse keeper. We recreate her daily routine and famous rescue of stricken sailors in a heavy storm.
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In Rebecca Elliott’s ‘The Last Tiger’, Luca befriends a lone animal. The tiger brings colour and magic into her dreary life. Using these ideas and images, children create their own imaginary world…
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Join India’s Festival of Colours – the ‘Holi Festival’. Fizz and pop as you burn your worries on a bonfire. Create a celebratory dance. And throw colours to signify fire, mischief, light and calm.
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‘Spring is in The Air’ comprises a single-lesson unit that exemplifies the layout and style of the full 6-week Dance Notes schemes. Each complete teaching pack includes a course outline (with aims & objectives and links to preview the music); your 6-week lesson plan; supplementary teaching notes and fully integrated audio tracks.
You can stream music directly from the web and choose whether to download tracks as mp3s or have them delivered on a CD. To browse the full range of teaching packs, preview lessons, audition music or place an order, please visit the Lessons pages.
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‘Snow is Here’ comprises a single-lesson unit that exemplifies the layout and style of the full 6-week Dance Notes schemes. Each complete teaching pack includes a course outline (with aims & objectives and links to preview the music); your 6-week lesson plan; supplementary teaching notes and fully integrated audio tracks.
You can stream music directly from the web and choose whether to download tracks as mp3s or have them delivered on a CD. To browse the full range of teaching packs, preview lessons, audition music or place an order, please visit the Lessons pages.
Alternatively, a Dance Notes Licence will equip your entire school with:
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Let’s read Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler’s hit children’s book ‘Monkey Puzzle’. Then use the story’s animals to stimulate movement ideas. We’ll work solo, in pairs & groups, then finally as a whole class in one giant caterpillar!
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To celebrate the Chinese New Year, here’s a lesson for you to try for free. Warm up with some improvised Tai Chi moves. Then, in groups, create your own Chinese dragon.
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‘Chinese New Year’ comprises a single-lesson unit that exemplifies the layout and style of the full 6-week Dance Notes schemes. Each complete teaching pack includes a course outline (with aims & objectives and links to preview the music); your 6-week lesson plan; supplementary teaching notes and fully integrated audio tracks.
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‘Monsters’ is a fun way to learn about interacting, spatial awareness, performance and choreography – for this monstrous dance, pupils can also make their own masks!
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Explore the chocolate-making process. Then search for a coin to buy a ‘Wonka’ bar. This wins the golden ticket and you meet the Umpa Loompas. Which leads you into a wonderful mouth-watering landscape.
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Individually explore Florence Nightingale’s daily activities, before creating group sequences to depict her travel, nursing and caring for wounded soldiers.
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Discover Britain before the Romans came: Iron-Age Celts farming the land, building settlements, making garments, fighting fiercely and worshiping strange gods.
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Taking inspiration from the modern mythical children’s book ‘Zog’, enter the world of dragons and knights. Create a castle and hide from the dragon. Then breathe – and become – fire!…
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What are photos for? How do we frame them? Where do we put them? How do celebrities pose for selfies? Are we photographs? This snappy topic develops into solo, duet & group work…
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Meet and become the colourful characters from the classic tale ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Have a tea party with the Mad Hatter, then play cards with the Queen of Hearts!
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Investigate and recreate the Mayans’ structures, their agriculture, gods and writings. Then imagine what happened to this amazing civilisation. What caused it to disappear?…
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A fun look at traditional dances from around the world. Starting with styles from Mexico, Argentina, India, China & Russia, use these to create improvisations – solo and in groups…
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Explore suspension, fall & release. Embody the flow and movement of the river and the resistance of a dam. Then, using poetry as a stimulus, work together to create a group improvisation…
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Use famous landmarks to generate ideas, then focus on the South of this amazing continent –America. Colourful traditions, rich landscape and varied wildlife inspire all kinds of movement…
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Learn how the Anglo Saxons lived. Imagine what their dwellings, work and pastimes were like. Then become warriors, defending your King and paying tribute to your many gods…
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Experience the world of animals and trees in the tropical rainforest, working in pairs, groups and together as a class. But why are the trees being felled and why do we need them?
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Gain understanding of the environment through movement. What is recycling? If we know how water moves and how plants are effected by the sun, can we stop pollution & save energy?
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From pirates, to fishing boats, shark attacks to storms, it all happens at sea. Work individually, in pairs and in larger groups to immerse yourselves in this watery theme….
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Derive ideas from science using text, images and poetry as stimuli. Children personify the characteristics of rocks & soil through movement. Then explode in a volcanic eruption!…
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From tearful goodbyes, to working in the fields and factories, how was life at home during World War I? And what was it like in the front-line trenches? Through movement, relive this iconic period in world history…
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Arriving on these shores in longships, the Vikings raided villages & worshiped many gods. Sure to evoke dramatic, dynamic and contrasting ideas, this topic will really get your pupils moving!
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