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 Dance is acknowledged as an important part of a child's education in the National Curriculum and the Expressive Arts Guidelines in Scotland and Northern Ireland encourage teachers to develop dance throughout the school as part of the Arts and PE curriculum.
School Radio offers three co-ordinated series that provide a comprehensive dance resource across the primary years. Each of the series provides opportunities to respond to a range of stimuli including specially-composed music, stories and poetry and the latest chart tracks. The series develop from simple movements based on children's own experience through to enabling children to create their own dances as individuals, groups and as a whole class. |
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Age 5 - 7
An introduction to dance and creative movement which begins with movements based on the children's own experiences and develops through exploring spaces, levels, pathways, body shapes and direction. All the basic dance actions are covered during each term - travel, jump, turn, pause, gesture.
 Download or subscribe to Let's Move
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Age 6 - 8
Develops the skills introduced by Let's Move (although many schools chose to use the series independently). Introduces increased opportunities for pair and group work and for independent creation and evaluation.
 Download or subscribe to Time to Move |
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Age 9 - 11
The series aims to be accessible to juniors making it easy and enjoyable for them to get up and dance. The series takes a cross-curricular approach allowing dance to explore other areas of the curriculum as well as folk dance and traditional dance from around the world. |
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Age 7 - 11
Provides a resource bank of carefully chosen music relevant to the curriculum for groups to interpret and inspire their own dance sequences. |
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