KS2 · Physical education · Year 4
Maypole dancing: England
Dance: traditional dances of the British Isles
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Your learning goal
I can travel in different directions in time with the music.
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Maypole dancing: England: 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 travel in different directions in time with the music.
Key learning points
- Move: responding to the rhythm, tempo and mood demonstrates musicality.
- Move: skipping in time to the music and in different directions requires control.
- Think: moving in time to the music requires concentration.
- Feel: practising a skill requires resilience.
- Connect: working with a partner or in a group involves cooperation.
Words to know
- skip
- a light, bouncy stepping action moving from foot to foot
- direction
- the way a performer is facing or the course they are travelling along
- musicality
- interpreting or expressing the music, responding to the rhythm, tempo or mood
Common mistakes
When you skip, you always travel forwards.
Skipping often involves travelling forwards, but it can also be performed on the spot or even travelling backwards.
For parents, carers and teachers
- Use equipment such as coloured bibs to help the pupils to identify whether they are dancer A or B.