Year 7 Learning
Performing Arts lessons in Year 7 are divided equally between Dance and Drama. Students have one lesson a fortnight. Students rotate between subjects at three points during the year: (approximately) after the first month of the autumn term, Christmas and Easter.
| Topic | Key Content | |
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| Autumn Term | Dance Graffiti Dance |
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| Drama Physical skills |
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| Dance & Drama Performing Arts Performance Project |
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| Spring/Summer Term | Dance Bollywood Dance |
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| Silent Movies |
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| Dance Billy Elliot The Musical |
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| Drama Physical Theatre |
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Autumn Term
What you will be able to do at the end of this term:
- Work as a team to create and develop material
- Perform in front of others
- Show respect during others’ performances
Spring/Summer Term
What you will be able to do at the end of this term:
- Apply some accuracy, control and energy to a short performance
- Develop content using simple dance relationships
- Describe where Bollywood dance is from and detail basic information about the style
- Show some concentration, staying in role for at least 20 seconds of a performance.
- Develop 2 physical skills to show the changes in characters emotions.
- Try out multiple ideas for performance, adding some developments.
- Apply accuracy, control and energy to a performance
- Create and develop movements in response to a stimulus
- Apply expression through physical skills to a performance.
- Create and develop movement in performance to show a storyline
- Reliably contribute ideas to the group when sharing ideas for performance
- Show some concentration, staying in role for at least 30 seconds of a performance.
- Describe what physical theatre is, giving examples of objects to create.