Dance

This unit develops students' expressive dance skills by exploring wild animal movements and characteristics as creative stimuli. Through imaginative exploration and structured choreography, students learn to communicate stories and relationships using whole-body movement. The progression from individual character work to collaborative storytelling builds both technical dance skills and creative confidence in Year 3 students.

This unit uses the inspiring narrative of the Space Race to develop students' creative expression through dance. By connecting movement to a captivating historical theme, students explore how their bodies can communicate stories, emotions, and ideas while building confidence in dance composition. The progression from solo exploration to collaborative group performance develops both artistic and cooperative skills essential for Year 3.

This unit uses the engaging theme of Vikings to develop Year 3 students' creative dance composition skills, progressing from individual motif creation to sophisticated group choreography. Through a carefully scaffolded journey, students explore storytelling through movement whilst developing technical understanding of levels, pathways, canon, and formation. The Viking context provides rich creative stimulus whilst maintaining clear dance pedagogy focused on compositional skills.

This unit uses the engaging context of Ancient Romans to develop Year 3 students' creative dance composition skills, progressing from individual motif creation to polished group performances. Through exploring historical themes, visual stimuli, and poetry, students learn to transform ideas into movement whilst developing technical vocabulary and choreographic devices. The Romans context provides rich opportunities for dramatic expression whilst teaching essential dance elements like levels, pathways, canon, and formation.

This unit uses weather as a powerful creative stimulus to develop students' expressive dance skills and imaginative storytelling through movement. The focus shifts from initial solo exploration of weather phenomena to collaborative partner work, culminating in a structured performance that demonstrates both technical dance skills and creative interpretation. Through the engaging theme of weather and beach experiences, students develop confidence in creative expression whilst building fundamental dance vocabulary and performance skills.

This unit empowers Year 3 students to explore dance as a universal language for cultural storytelling. Through progressive development of individual, partner, and group choreography skills, students discover how movement can communicate meaning across cultures. The unit uniquely combines technical dance elements (levels, pathways, canon) with creative expression rooted in global cultural awareness, building both physical literacy and cultural understanding.

This unit uses dance as a powerful vehicle for exploring Year 3 curriculum topics, from mechanical movements to seasonal changes, Roman history, and scientific forces. Students develop choreographic techniques whilst deepening understanding of cross-curricular concepts through embodied learning. The thematic variety maintains engagement whilst building transferable dance skills including synchronization, canon, formation work, and expressive dynamics.

This unit develops Year 3 students' ability to transform ideas, images and words into expressive dance sequences through progressive creative challenges. Beginning with an engaging Egyptian theme, students build choreographic skills from individual exploration to sophisticated group performances using canon and formation changes. The unit uniquely bridges literacy and physical expression, enabling students to 'read' visual and poetic stimuli and translate them into meaningful movement narratives.

This unit immerses Year 3 students in the energetic world of barn dance, blending traditional partner work with creative movement expression. Through a carefully structured journey from learning authentic steps to choreographing their own sequences, students develop performance confidence whilst exploring how dance communicates stories and emotions. The barn dance context provides an accessible, joyful framework for developing timing, coordination, and collaborative skills.

This unit transforms students into dance storytellers, using character exploration and technical skills to bring narratives to life through movement. By anchoring learning in familiar character archetypes, students develop both expressive dance vocabulary and performance confidence. The journey from solo character work to collaborative direction builds creative independence whilst maintaining strong technical foundations through structured technique like the jazz square.