Medium Term Plan
Year 3 Summer Term (1) 2006
Topic: PE QCA Unit: 3, Dance
Week Key Objectives/Activities
To improvise freely on their own
and with a partner, translating
ideas from a stimulus into
1 movement.
To create and link dance phrases
using a simple dance structure or
2 motif;
To perform dances with an
awareness of rhythmic, dynamic
and expressive qualities, on their
own, with a partner and in small
groups.
3 To keep up activity over a period
of time and know they need to
warm up and cool down for dance.
To evaluate and improve upon
4 their dance sequence, and begin
to set it to music.
To perform their dance sequence
5 in front of the whole class, to be
recorded for later final evaluation.
Evaluation
General warm up.
In groups of 4 children are to
decide on a stimulus (a mood) and
think of work to describe it. Children
are then to explore these words
through expressive movement.
Focus on change of speed,
strength, flow of movements and
use of space. Encourage the use of
the whole group to complete some
actions.
Cool down – stretches.
Warm up - aerobics
Explain to the children that they are
now going to compose a dance to
show why they are in ‘that mood’.
Children must show the effects
leading up to it. Talk about working
in unison and in cannon. Discuss
and incorporate the use of clear
start and finishing positions.
Cool down – stretches.
Focus specifically on warm up
activities, and monitor how the body
feels at various parts of the activity.
Explain why it is important to
always warm up and cool down
afterwards, and also demonstrate
some useful cool down stretches.
General warm up. Children to lead
from last week’s session. Remind
children of their dance in previous
weeks. How can it be improved?
What types of music would they like
it to be set against?
General stretches and cool down,
led by children following last week’s
session.
Children to remind themselves of
their dance, and to quickly practice
with the music. Children to perform
their dance sequences to the whole
class. Evaluation of dances after
we’ve watched them back. How
could they be improved even
further?
General stretches and cool down.