30 Dance Lesson Plans with hints and tips to enable successful, creative dance lessons with careful consideration towards physical distancing. The lesson plans in this e-book are largely aimed at primary school aged children but you may well find they are easily applied to many other situations or age groups. They have been devised to allow the participants to engage in creative and expressive activities whilst due consideration has been given to the constraints of physical distancing as a result of the Covid-19 virus. The plans have been written as stand-alone ideas, each is time framed, though they do contain ideas for ‘adding challenge’ to meet the needs of different age groups or to extend the activity past the initial lesson. The plans have different coloured banners, this indicates whether it is a relaxed (red), moderate (orange) or high energy (green) activity as well as a suggestion for suitable music (with links). Written by dance specialists Jo Cone, Louise Jaggard and Claire Pring

A dance class aimed at Foundation Stage pupils. This session focuses on emotions - create a happy, sad and angry dance in response to prompts, ideas and suggested music (easy to find on YouTube) Movement Objectives: Dynamics: Happy - energetic, expressive, big Angry - Heavy, sudden, loud Sad - small, slumped, closed Body parts: facial expression Action: A range of actions to express inward emotion Includes warm up relevant to the topic main activities - creative tasks, improvisation and basic choreography in response to stimuli (different music) cool down Listings of all music that can be downloaded or found online

Check out this video for some inspiration for your dance warm up for Key Stage 2 children. I have included lots of general ideas suitable for boys (as well as girls!). Please take any actions that you like and add them into your own warm up. Warm ups should last for 3-5 minutes, mobilise major joints and muscles and raise the heartbeat. They should also be appropriate to the main activity you are delivering, so include movements / concepts from your lesson plan into your warm up.

Check out the video below for fresh ideas on leading a key stage 1 dance warm up – fun, accessible and full of beans! Warm ups should last for 3-5 minutes, mobilise major joints and muscles and raise the heartbeat. They should also be appropriate to the main activity you are delivering, so include movements / concepts from your lesson plan into your warm up.