Can’t engage boys in dance? Think again! Let’s face it; all children like to Rough & Tumble. This scheme appeals to & harnesses boys’ (and, of course, girls’) innate spirit of adventure, mischief and cunning.

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Your ‘Rough & Tumble’ Teaching Pack for Key Stage 2 Dance

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6-week lesson plan
integrated music tracks
pupil assessment charts
curriculum objectives
learning outcomes
comprehensive teaching notes

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Name: Rough & Tumble (KS2)
Brand: dance notes
SKU: 625
Price: 32.99 GBP
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Outline

Curriculum Objectives:

Apply & develop a broad range of movement skills
Learn how to use these in different ways
Link them to make actions & sequences of movement
Enjoy communicating and collaborating with each other
Develop an understanding of how to improve
Learn how to evaluate and recognise own success

Learning Outcomes:

Use a variety of movements in isolation and combination
Develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance
Perform dances using a range of movement patterns
Compare and evaluate performances against previous ones
Demonstrate improvement to achieve personal targets

Unit Contents:

Week 1: Travelling Safely Together

Week 2: Solo and Duets

Week 3: Group work

Week 4: Re-capping

Week 5: Unison

Week 6: Evaluation, Rehearse & Perform

Week 1: Travelling Safely Together

Starter

Discuss safety.

The first exercise will be a test and something that can be built on when all have proven they can respect each other’s space and safety.

Warm up

The Fugitive

Begin by jogging around the Hall. Look for space and jog to it, repeat and repeat.

Your mission! Now faster – Emphasize the look before you run to the next space. You are desperate to find the space and capture it as your own. See how many spaces you can find within a specified time.

Still running around the hall – When you meet another person dodge from side to side (3 times), just like a boxer, before moving on.

Develop this movement by adding extended arms or a shadow punch. Remember NO contact.

Main

The One That Got Away

Discuss how a punch or a dodge can be made into a very big dance movement using jumps, turns or rolls. Use control, accuracy, tension and changes or speed for dramatisation:

e.g. A punch can begin at the floor and finish at the end of a jump.

A dodge can be from standing and finish after a roll.

Discuss ideas and encourage pupils to demonstrate examples

Self evaluate before a final rehearsal

Half class to show; rest to evaluate – then swap over.

Which moves do we like and why? Which moves demonstrated control, tension, speed or accuracy?

Cool Down

I Know

Consolidate Solo dance by all performing as slowly and controlled as possible

NB. Listen to the music.

Key Vocabulary:

spatial awareness, rehearsal, control, tension, accuracy

Week 2: Solo and Duets

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Trish

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Kelly

Easy to follow instructions with the music. Good pair and group work. Fits well with my Ancient Greece topic. Thanks so much! It’s a great unit – it worked so well I’m doing it again this year.

Anna