Michael Jones explains the importance of mark making in learning to write and describes a project involving four year olds in six Luton schools that also provides pointers towards helping older children with additional learning needs.

A labour of love, this guide has taken me a few years to create, fitting it around other commitments. The guide includes AQA specification content, retrieval tasks, revision activities, exam technique tips and exemplars relating to all 3 sections of the written paper. Over 100 pages - please see images for content pages.

A powerpoint activity including music, symbols and engaging visuals designed to get learners with PMLD/SEND needs moving! This supports the theme of fireworks. You work your way through each action/activity on each slide using your chosen resources to complete the action. Actions included: warming up twist & spin push and pull relaxation Fully adaptable for wheelchair users.

This resource is a single lesson plan for Dance (rhythmic movement) for pupils with Profound and Multiple Learning Difficulties (PMLD). The lesson focuses on pupils co-ordinating their movements to music. This includes linking audio stimuli (e.g. music) with: general movement, holding an object, shaking an object releasing an object. The lesson plan has been constructed for Pupils working at Phase 1 in the Victoria Curriculum.

a sketchbook template for a scheme of work on movement figures and dance. With sections for pupils to complete their own activities

Participants will get to dive right into their own themed story adventure whilst moving their bodies. Aimed to spark imagination and improve control of movement, these dance stories will get children thoroughly engaged. the two themes are “Passing Through the Jungle” and “Journey to Space.”

Brilliant interactive downloadable resource from the School of Fish website.In this lesson pupils will be creative with movement and work with others. Lesson 2 of 2.

This is a 4 page dance worksheet that could be adapted for drama students. The worksheet comprises of key dance vocabulary, dance actions, staging and wordsearch. An ideal worksheet for cover lesson at KS3 or a revision tool for KS4 students.

This can be used as a visual to show pupils and remind them of the 5 basic dance movements throughout the lesson introducing each one each lesson. This is more beneficial to a year 7 group just starting dance or with year 8’s to reinforce these.

Colourful Knowledge Organiser for GCSE Dance (AQA Current Spec) Includes all the information from the AQA website, put into a more eye-catching and clear format. Comes in PDF format ready for print.

I have pulled together a range of my resources to create a 69page work booklet for your GCSE dance students. Also suitable in some parts for PE: healthy diet, warm up and cool down This could be used during your online learning, as a homework booklet or as a booklet of activities you pull out for cover lessons! However you use it , there are bank of activities along with a tracking page at the start and the level descriptors 1-9 at the end

Explore our practical “Dance Movement Component Displays” – designed with students in mind. These four displays spotlight key elements: actions, space, dynamics, and relationships. We print them for our dance studio in size 150 x 113 dimensions using ‘Adverset,’ printing. Perfect for both lesson revision and sparking movement ideas, these displays make learning interactive and enjoyable.

Single PDF of ‘Movements’ poster which is optimised for A1 and A2 printing. The poster gives examples of some ‘actions’ including Turns, Elevation, Travels and Balances. Also available as part of a full pack of 5!

Street Dance PowerPoint and SOW for use with Key Stage 3 (4 lessons included)

This is a single ppt introducing shadows and encouraging initial thoughts and interpretations from the students. It could be extended to cover 2 one hour lessons simply by encouraging longer discussion and sharing of ideas It also provides an overview of the unit and a long term homework task. This would also be usable for your online learners. I do not have permission to share the videos from the AQA website but you will need two of them for this lesson: the whole work video and the interview with Christopher Bruce

This detailed worksheet supports and guides students through all of the choreographic elements when creating their own choreography for their GCSE. The worksheet allows students to record their progress and decisions, which will later support them when writing their programme notes. This will also allow students to work through all the areas covered within the choreography task.

This 17 slide powerpoint includes: Matching task for definitions of Physical skills Slides that ask learners to explain what Physical skills are being used by dancers in a given image Slides that ask learners to explain HOW they could improve their strength, stamina and flexibility. Matching task for definitions of Expressive skills Slides that ask learners to explain HOW they could improve their Focus/eyeline + Musicality Matching task for definitions of Technical skills Matching task for definitions of Mental skills A self-assessment task, asking learners to highlight their strengths. areas for improvements and target set in terms of the different skills they have covered in the previous slides.

This pack includes 4 easy to follow dance lessons that cover cave paintings hunter gatherers moving from caves to simple houses into the Iron Age with the creation of weapons (battles). Each lesson comes with a link to suitable music as well as hints and tips along the way to help you to keep the children on task and challenged. There is also a side column indicates the key skill for each section of the lesson. The lessons are in step-by-step form that require the teacher to simply ask questions & set tasks - this allows the children to be very creative & it is also a very inclusive way of working. If you require any further support please feel free to contact me at cpring@live.co.uk

UPDATED AND IMPROVED ON 21/02/2022 This resource is for KS1 teachers teaching dance through the Physical Education part of the national curriculum during the topic of toys (or any topic connected to toys, gifts, celebration etc). This ‘Toys’ scheme of work is great to teach after the holiday season. It allows pupils to share their holiday experience through emotion and movement games along with developing their creativity through choreography tasks. This SOL comes with: 6 lesson plans, detailing the activities in each lesson along with coaching points to aid teaching. A 6 lesson PowerPoint including notes under each slide to help with the delivery of the lesson. A CPD document that should help with aspects of teaching dance that a none dance specialist might find helpful. Notes: The timings of the lesson and the activities within the lesson plans can of course be adapted. Activities can be changed, lengthened, shortened, taken out, differentiated etc. Feel free to adapt this resource to suit your own needs as well as the needs of the children. Feel free to use your own music. I used ‘Epic Music – Toys Come Alive’ on YouTube I loved teaching this SOL and I hope you do too. If you find it helpful, I would massively appreciate it if you could leave me a review 

6 Lesson plans on a power point format SOW. This Sow can cover Year 7/8 or 9. Lesson includes; what parkour is, contact work, key movements in the style of parkour, links between dance and parkour and the principles behind parkour. All lessons have; lesson objectives, starters, lesson tasks, pictures , videos and plenaries.