Dance
Dance develops the ability of students to communicate and express themselves through movement. Through dance, students develop awareness of the ways their bodies move, the space in which they move, the time and quality of their movements and their relationship to each other and objects. Students participate in composing, moving and appreciating a range of dance styles.
The resource package Quantum Leaps, distributed to all primary schools in 2002, is a comprehensive resource package that provides support for teachers in the implementation of dance in the primary curriculum.
This section of the PDHPE web site is designed to assist primary school teachers develop learning programs that incorporate dance as part of PDHPE and Creative Arts.
It provides helpful information about:
- safe dance practices
- preventing injury
- warming up
- sample-warm-ups.
- assessment of student achievement
- points to consider
- examples of collecting and recording evidence.
- Early Stage 1
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3.
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