KS2 · Physical education · Year 4
Changing formations: Wales
Dance: traditional dances of the British Isles
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Your learning goal
I can use a variety of formations when performing a dance.
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Changing formations: Wales: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can use a variety of formations when performing a dance.
Key learning points
- Move: performing actions to correspond to the music demonstrates musicality.
- Move: performing in time as a group can be helped by one person counting aloud.
- Think: organising group formations uses decision making skills.
- Feel: resilience enables us to act on any feedback we are given in order to develop our ideas further.
- Connect: performing as a group and taking turns requires cooperation.
Words to know
- formation
- how dancers are arranged
- pathways
- the track of a journey
- location
- a position or place
Common mistakes
Pupils think that all dance formations involve facing forwards, side by side.
In traditional dances, the performers typically look straight ahead, but the formations may involve people being side by side, one behind the other, in a circle or sometimes something different such as a star, a square or a double circle.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Organise the groups so that the 'lead' pair are all at the same side of the room and that all groups are instructed to circle in the same direction (either clockwise or anticlockwise) to minimise risk of collision.