Dance / Year 3 and 4

Curriculum content descriptions

Practise technical skills safely in fundamental movements (ACADAM006)

Elaborations
  • practising combinations of fundamental locomotor and non-locomotor movements to a range of musical accompaniment, for example, running and sliding; bending and stretching; running, swinging, walking and stretching
  • developing body awareness and refining technical skills of body control, accuracy, alignment, strength, balance and coordination in fundamental movements in response to teacher’s feedback and observation of other dancers’ technical skills
  • demonstrating safe dance practices, for example, warming up their bodies before executing more complex movement patterns in dance sequences and cooling/calming down afterwards; removing socks if the floor surface is slippery (and clean)
  • building confidence and resilience through practising technical skills
ScOT terms

Movement sequences,  Locomotor skills

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