PE at key stages 3 and 4 (Year 9/10)

Unit 3: Dance activities: Intermediate
Section 3: Knowledge and understanding of fitness and health

Objectives

Children should learn:

how to continue to improve their personal fitness for dance and through dance
to recognise and describe how regular involvement in dance activity affects their fitness, health and wellbeing
to identify how and where they can get involved in dance activity

Activities		Outcomes
		Children:
Help pupils understand what each dance style requires in terms of fitness and skill. Talk to pupils about the main areas of fitness required eg suppleness, stamina, power. Teach them how to improve these aspects of fitness and to recognise what they most need themselves. Help pupils to identify where they can dance out of school and to have the confidence to join in.		describe the demands that different types of dance activities make upon the body and select the ones that suit them as individuals explain how to improve stamina, strength and suppleness for dance and plan an appropriate training programme for their own development describe how fitness activities increase their confidence when dancing in their recreational time

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	1. Acquiring and developing skills
	2. Selecting and applying skills, tactics and compositional ideas
	3. Knowledge and understanding of fitness and health
	4. Evaluating and improving performance

PE at key stages 3 and 4 (Year 9/10)

Objectives

Activities

Outcomes

Sections in this unit