Dance at Wheatley 

Early Years Outcomes

The main Early Years Outcomes covered in the Dance units are:

• Moves freely and with pleasure and confidence in a range of ways, such as slithering, shuffling, rolling, crawling, walking, running, jumping, skipping, sliding and hopping. 
• Children show good control and coordination in large and small movements. They move confidently in a range of ways, safely negotiating space.
• Enjoys joining in with dancing and ring games.
• Beginning to move rhythmically.
• Begins to build a repertoire of songs and dances.
• Children sing songs, make music and dance, and experiment with ways of changing them.
• Developing preferences for forms of expression.
• Uses movement to express feelings.
• Creates movement in response to music.
• Initiates new combinations of movement and gesture in order to express and respond to feelings, ideas and experiences.

KS1 National Curriculum Aims

Pupils should be taught to:

• master basic movements including running, jumping, throwing and catching, as well as developing balance, agility and coordination, and begin to apply these in a range of activities;
• perform dances using simple movement patterns.

KS2 National Curriculum Aims

Pupils should be taught to:

• develop flexibility, strength, technique, control and balance
• perform dances using a range of movement patterns;
• compare their performances with previous ones and demonstrate improvement to achieve their personal best.