This one-day dance workshop for primary teachers covers the following key areas:

• Introduction to Dance in the Primary National Curriculum
• Fundamental Movement Skills – exploring core movements in dance with actions such as jumping, turning, balancing, and traveling
• Linking movements – creating simple dance phrases using fundamental movements.
• Creative dance techniques – basing dance units and lessons around a theme, story, or idea.
• Strategies for managing space and pupils safely and effectively
• Choreography and basic composition principles – creating structure using simple patterns and sequences
• Encouraging pupil-led choreography
• Supporting pupils develop coordination, rhythm and timing
• Selecting appropriate and engaging music for different age groups and themes
• Assessment in dance
• Practical sessions – you will participate in a mini dance class, experiencing the content from a pupil’s perspective
• Group reflection and feedback – adapting learning tasks to different abilities and classroom contexts.
• Resource sharing and planning

This course is suitable for any practitioner (subject coordinator, teaching assistant or coach) within the primary school setting who wishes to make a positive impact upon the teaching and learning of children through dance.

The tutor, Sue Trotman has been involved in teaching, advisory work, inspection, Physical Education and Dance in-service training both nationally and internationally for 40 years. Sue was previously Chair of National Dance Teachers Association (NDTA), and is Director of her own company, providing educational consultancy for both PE and Dance.

• You will engage in interactive activities to encourage deep learning
• You will leave equipped to develop dance as part of national curriculum physical education and share ideas and tasks with colleagues in school