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This unit empowers Year 2 students to discover their creative voice through dance, moving from individual exploration to collaborative storytelling. The focus is on building confidence in expressive movement whilst developing vocabulary for describing and creating dance. Through poetry, pictures and imagination, students learn that dance is a powerful language for communicating ideas and emotions.

Lessons in This Unit

6 lessons in this unit

Lesson 1

Creative Movement Exploration
45 min

Big Question:

How can we use our bodies to tell stories and express ideas through movement?

Key Objectives:

  • • To move safely and creatively in different spaces and directions
  • • To translate theme-related words and ideas into expressive movements and shapes

Lesson 2

Creative Movement and Timing
45 min

Big Question:

How can we use words and ideas from our minds to create beautiful dance movements that we can perform together?

Key Objectives:

  • • To develop creative dance ideas using theme-related vocabulary as inspiration
  • • To focus on timing and performing movements in unison with the class

Lesson 3

Travelling with Levels and Pathways
45 min

Big Question:

How can we use different levels and pathways to make our travelling movements more interesting and creative?

Key Objectives:

  • • To creatively turn motif actions into travelling movements
  • • To demonstrate different levels whilst travelling

Lesson 4

Dance Inspired by Poetry
45 min

Big Question:

How can we use words and pictures to create expressive movement that tells a story?

Key Objectives:

  • • To work effectively in pairs showing good cooperation skills and give useful peer feedback
  • • To use poetry as a stimulus for creative and imaginative dance actions

Lesson 5

Picture-Inspired Partner Dance
45 min

Big Question:

How can we use pictures and imagination to create expressive dance movements with a partner?

Key Objectives:

  • • To work effectively in pairs showing cooperation and giving constructive peer feedback
  • • To use visual stimuli as inspiration for creative and imaginative dance actions

Lesson 6

Performance, Review and Improvement
45 min

Big Question:

How can we perform with confidence and help others improve through thoughtful feedback?

Key Objectives:

  • • To understand what makes a good performance and demonstrate these qualities
  • • To give useful, constructive feedback to partners using technical language