Large Apparatus

Key Skills

• Safe lifting and transportation of apparatus

• Safe assembly and dismantling of apparatus.

• Use of apparatus to show balances and jumps.

• Understanding of safe landings

• Discipline when using apparatus

• Creating movement sequences on apparatus

• Encouraged to create movement out of comfort zone, climb higher, balance longer etc

• Set challenges

Gymnastics

Key Skills

• Learn a variety of different ways to travel across a small area using different levels and body parts.

• Explore and link different shapes to create a small sequence.

• Learn how to jump effectively and safely and apply this in a sequence.

• Learn point and patch balances and how to link them together within their sequences.

• Learn fundamental of rolling and link them together within a controlled way.

• Perform a full routine that involves shapes, travelling, balances, jumping, rolling and small apparatus

Dance

Key Skills

• Recap basic movements and learn how to create and develop basic movement patterns in a small group.

• Repond to a variety of stimuli - words, poetry, pictures, sounds, videos and objects. Explore different ways to use movement to reflect the stimulus and link movements in small groups.

• Learn different stage directions using a dance.

• Attempt these directions in the dance that has been created up to now.

• Use formation in dances to make compositions more creative; dance in formation flow in a smooth and controlled way.

• Learn to create a clear, middle and an end to their routines by using stillness and symmetrical shapes.

• Competition week: recap performance skills and use in final dance.