This is a unique and exciting opportunity for young people to explore and imaginatively learn dance and achieve awards as they progress their choreographic skills. Awards are given at different stages of understanding: BRONZE, SILVER and GOLD. This syllabus provides the information needed to explore and assess creative dance with students. It is designed to be used by both classroom teachers and other companies or individuals delivering dance as an extra curricular activity, workshop or youth dance company. It is aimed at dancers aged 11-16 years (KS3/KS4).
The tasks and easy to understand as the dancers will show evidence that they have been creative with the choreographic principles. Designed to inspire creative movement responses in young dancers allowing them to achieve Graded awards which are assessed at the end of each of three set tasks. Creative dancers can achieve a Bronze, Silver and Gold Creative Dance Awards. Teachers will assess this from the grading criteria given in the syllabus pack then complete, print and present the given certificate.
This syllabus also comes with a 6 lesson creative dance scheme of work to introduce choreography to dancers in KS3/KS4.
The syllabuscontains:
An overview SOW for five lessons and lesson extensions with a glossary, choeographic diary and more.Each lesson contains an easy to follow lesson plan, an engaging powerpoint, three activity sheets, improvistaion task sheets, other useful hands and links
The Creative Dance Medals Syllabus - that can be run alongside the Scheme of work
Links to creative tasks on video
Separate Grading Criteria and Assessment Sheets for Bronze, Silver and Gold
