KS2 · Physical education · Year 4
Strathspey: Scotland
Dance: traditional dances of the British Isles
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Your learning goal
I can create an original dance using a precise set of actions.
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Strathspey: Scotland: 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 create an original dance using a precise set of actions.
Key learning points
- Move: responding and performing actions in time with the music while maintaining precise formations requires musicality.
- Move: performing a precise set of actions requires control, balance and accuracy.
- Think: finding different ways to perform an action involves problem solving.
- Connect: successfully arranging actions with a partner requires cooperation skills.
Words to know
- Strathspey setting step
- a combination of three travelling steps and a small hop
- formation
- how a group of dancers are arranged
- travel
- to move from one location to another
Common mistakes
Pupils rely on copying others to get the steps right rather than learning the steps themselves.
Exaplain to pupils the importance of showing resilience and rehearsing to become more familiar with the actions, directions and patterns.
For parents, carers and teachers
- The hop at the end of the Setting Step is usually a small action and can be adapted into a balance or a brief pause to prepare the pupils to travel in the opposite direction.