Section 1: Acquiring and developing skills
Children:
- perform with technical competence, demonstrating clarity of action, shape and dynamics and showing an understanding of rhythm, phrasing and sensitivity to the accompaniment
- make fluid transitions between movements and movement phrases and interpret choreographic intention in performance
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Section 2: Selecting and applying skills, tactics and compositional ideas
Children:
- research ideas for dance and improvise freely using different dance styles and techniques
- select appropriate movements and ideas to structure dances which convey the choreographic intention
- demonstrate an understanding of different choreographic principles and use them with increasing competence
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Section 3: Knowledge and understanding of fitness and health
Children:
- 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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Section 4: Evaluating and improving performance
Children:
- describe, analyse, interpret and evaluate dances with some evidence of artistic, aesthetic and cultural understanding
- use their knowledge and understanding of dance to evaluate, adapt and improve their own compositions and performances
- make good choices and take decisions on what to do to improve their own and others' work
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