We are immensely proud of the rich and varied schemes of work that the Dance department provide for our students. We have a thriving, inclusive and innovative department. As experienced practitioners we pride ourselves on creating thinking dancers for the future, enabling young people to gain experience in performance, composition and appreciation.
We believe that Dance is a valuable and necessary part of any learner’s journey at secondary school. This subject builds confidence, communication skills, determination, organisation skills and physical fitness.
We strive to provide opportunities that harness these skills in all of our Dance lessons. Every learner in our care should have the equality to access and achieve within our subject and through our varied extra-curricular programme.
Schemes of work have been carefully crafted to support learner’s understanding of dance practitioners, choreographic approaches and performance skills. We are keen to ensure that each scheme builds on prior learning and supports learners to develop a growing social and cultural awareness of the world around them, ownership and pride in their work and embed social skills that can be utilised across the whole curriculum.
The Key Stage 3 Dance Curriculum aims to engage and support students, creating a welcoming and kind environment where all students are able to reach their full potential.
Students are introduced to Rehearsal, Performance and Evaluation in year 7 and this is embedded throughout all KS3 lessons. We aim to ensure that there is continuity and progression as students travel through the Key Stage. Throughout each scheme we provide opportunities to broaden the horizons of our students by exposing them to a range of cultural, social and historical stimuli.
We build have built in GCSE Dance terminology throughout KS3, developing confidence in students analytical and evaluative skills. We aim to ensure that by the end of year 9 students can articulate confidently performance analysis using the dance toolkit in line with our assessment criteria.
Our KS3 Dance schemes include:
Course Code: GCSE Dance AQA 8236
Exam Board Specification: http://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/dance/gcse/dance-8236
The GCSE is split into two Components:
What's assessed
How it's assessed
Internally marked and externally moderated based on Physical, technical and expressive skills and choreography skills.
Performance
30% of GCSE
40 marks
Choreography
30% of GCSE
40 marks
Total component 60% Non-exam assessment (NEA) marked by the centre and moderated by AQA.
What's assessed
How it's assessed
40% of GCSE Written exam: 1 hour 30 minutes
80 marks
Questions Based on students' own practice in performance and choreography and the GCSE Dance anthology.