KS3 Dance

We are very proud to offer every KS3 student the opportunity to participate in Dance. The vision for the LRS Dance department is to enable students to develop a wide variety of essential skills and knowledge which can be applied to everyday life, such as, co-operation, collaboration, and communication. Our curriculum aims to promote creativity through physical expressions, confidence, and imagination. There is a strong emphasis on encouraging and promoting student-lead choreography to further enhance artistic expression to prepare for GCSE Dance. We expect students to approach physical and creative tasks with an open mind and come well-prepared for every lesson. They should support one another, working efficiently both independently and as part of a team.

At the end of each unit, students are assessed in three key areas: ‘Performing’, ‘Creating’ and ‘Responding’.

Performing: Students are assessed on their ability to replicate a taught routine embodying the dance style, their demonstration of physical skills, choreographic devices and rhythmic patterns with the music and group.

Creating: Students are assessed on their ability to rehearse co-operatively with a group and their contribution of ideas to the task. 

Responding: Students are assessed on the reflective process to identify strengths and areas of improvement, their use of dance vocabulary and ability to create targets for further development.

 

KS4 Dance

The GCSE Dance course provides students with the opportunity to develop sector-specific knowledge and skills through a variety of vocational contexts. The course is designed to broaden experiences, and performance opportunities through analysing and reproducing repertoire in a variety of styles to develop core dance skills and techniques. Across two years, students will complete three components of work, developing their knowledge and understanding of professional works both practically and theoretically. LRS follows the BTEC Tech Award exam board for GCSE Dance.

Component 1: Exploring the Performing Arts (30%), involves exploring the roles and responsibilities in dance and a variety of performance styles through investigating practitioners/companies in dance.

Component 2: Developing skills and Techniques in the Performing Arts (30%), requires developing and reflecting on the use of dance skills and techniques in workshops working towards a reproduction of a choreographed performance.

Component 3: Responding to a Brief (40%), is the ability to apply knowledge and understanding of dance skills and techniques through creating performances in response to a stimulus set by the exam board as a group.

Students can also make the most of dance workshops and trips that happen during the two years, encouraging them to learn from dance industry professionals in various genres.

 

Where you and your child can access support and help in KS4:

Performing Arts (2022) | BTEC Tech Awards | Pearson qualifications

b0746k-btec-tech-awards-performing-arts-mini-guide-a4p-prf2.pdf

BTEC Tech Award Performing Arts Revision Guide: Search Pearson UK Schools Shop