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Core Program 1 - Dance & Movement

Dance for Foundation to Year 2 students

Our Dance & Movement program uses modern dance styles for children and is created to allow optimal expression and successful confidence building. Builds responsiveness to stimuli and allows for self-expression.

Through teamwork, focus, and improvisational skills, our Dance & Movement program takes into account movement sequencing and allow students the opportunity to move freely and in a fun and supportive environment.

Proactivity Dance & Movement Programs align with the Victorian Curriculum.

Dance & Movement Program Overview

Skill development and movement challenges is a key pillar of this Dance & Movement program using dance fundamentals from children-friendly street, hip-hop and cultural dance styles.

Providing students, the opportunity to link movements together, in a safe and inclusive environment. Allows for numerous fundamental motor skills to be built, refined and developed.

Key Focus Points:

  • Moving Your Body
  • Understanding Dance and Movement
  • Learning through Dance and Movement

Benefits:

  • Great for coordination
  • Boost self-esteem
  • Increase physical fitness
  • Make friends/healthy interactions
  • Team development skills
  • Reduce stress
  • Stimulates mind development

Curriculum Outcomes

Ensure your curriculum program meets achievement outcomes by including a progressive and engaging dance and movement program.

Curriculum Standards met:

  • Coorperate with others when participating in physical activities (VCHPEM068)
  • Practise fundamental movement skills and movement sequences using different body parts and in response to stimuli in indoor, outdoor and aquatic settings (VCHPEM064)
  • Participate in games with and without equipment (VCHPEM065)

Major Category = Rhythmic and Expressive

Program Inclusions

With our Dance & Movement program, your students will have the opportunity to develop their coordination, balance, and spatial awareness while having fun and expressing themselves through dance.

Foundation

Curriculum Links

HPE

Moving the body
Participate in games with and without equipment.

Learning through movement
Use trial and error to test solutions to movement challenges.

Understanding movement
Identify and describe how their body moves in relation to effort, space, time, objects and people.

The Arts: Dance

Use fundamental locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body parts, bases and zones to explore safe movement possibilities and dance ideas.

Use choreographic devices to organise movement ideas and create dance sequences.

Use simple technical and expressive skills when presenting dance that communicates ideas to an audience.

Respond to dance, expressing what they enjoy and why.

Learning Objectives
  • Students will be able to follow along and create an exciting atmosphere.
  • Students will learn a basic and engaging dance routine to boost confidence through participation.
Learning Activities
  • Fun & Engaging group activity to start the session
  • Follow along dance activity
  • Learn basic / fundamental routine
  • Games and Q&A
  • Cool-down activity
Learning Objectives
  • Students will be able to test mental and muscle memory through recapping/remembering week one dance routine.
  • Students will foster a positive and supportive dance environment through the use of rhythmic games and challenges.
Learning Activities
  • Fun & Engaging group activity to start the session
  • Follow along dance activity
  • Learn basic / fundamental routine
  • Games and Q&A
  • Cool-down activity
Learning Objectives
  • Students will be able to remember names of basic dance moves.
  • Students will begin to learn part one of a beginner dance routine.
Learning Activities
  • Fun & Engaging group activity to start the session
  • Follow along dance activity
  • Learn beginner routine
  • Games and Q&A
  • Cool-down activity.
Learning Objectives
  • Students will recap part one from previous sessions, and learn final part two of a dance routine.
  • Students will perform a small group activity focused on working effectively in teams.
Learning Activities
  • Fun & Engaging group activity to start the session
  • Follow along dance activity
  • Learn beginner routine
  • Games and Q&A
  • Cool-down activity.

Years 1 and 2

Curriculum Links

HPE

Moving the body
Construct and perform imaginative and original movement sequences in response to stimuli. Create and participate in games.

Understanding movement
Incorporate elements of effort, space, time, objects and people in performing simple movement sequences.

Learning through movement
Use strategies to work in group situations when participating in physical activities.

The Arts: Dance

Use safe dance practice, fundamental locomotor and non-locomotor movements, body parts, bases and zones to explore, improvise and structure movement ideas for dance.

Use choreographic devices to select and organise movement ideas and create and practise dance sequences.

Use simple technical and expressive skills when presenting dance that communicates ideas about themselves and their world to an audience.

Respond to dance, expressing what they enjoy, and where and why people in their local area dance.

Learning Objectives
  • Students will be able to follow along and create an exciting atmosphere.
  • Students will learn a basic and engaging dance routine to boost confidence through participation.
Learning Activities
  • Fun & Engaging group activity to start the session
  • Follow along dance activity
  • Learn basic / fundamental routine
  • Games and Q&A
  • Cool-down activity
Learning Objectives
  • Students will be able to remember names of basic dance moves.
  • Students will learn a beginner dance routine.
Learning Activities
  • Fun & Engaging group activity to start the session
  • Follow along dance activity
  • Learn basic / fundamental routine
  • Games and Q&A
  • Cool-down activity
Learning Objectives
  • Students will be able to remember names of basic dance moves.
  • Students will learn a beginner dance routine.
Learning Activities
  • Fun & Engaging group activity to start the session
  • Follow along dance activity
  • Learn beginner routine
  • Games and Q&A
  • Cool-down activity
Learning Objectives
  • Students will demonstrate two parts to a dance routine and collaborate in small groups.
Learning Activities
  • Fun & Engaging group activity to start the session
  • Follow along dance activity
  • Learn beginner routine
  • Games and Q&A
  • Cool-down activity

Compliance Ready

  • Risk Assessments, Insurance and WWCC’s
  • Qualified instructors and equipment provided
  • Flexible delivery model
  • Proactivity is committed to keeping students safe, please see our COVID-19 Policies for more information.

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