Demonstration: Creating dance - ABOVE
Students spent the first half of the year following dance videos as part of their warm-up in physical education lessons. Students were asked to construct and perform a dance routine using a minimum of four dance moves that went for at least 30 seconds. …
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Demonstration: Bush dance – ABOVE
Students participated in a unit of work that introduced them to the history of Australian bush dance. The class was taught Heel and Toe Polka, Strip the Willow and Waves of Bondi at the start of the unit. Students were asked to form groups and use the …
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Demonstration and verbal response: Dance creation - ABOVE
Students were involved in a 10-week HASS and HPE unit of work about celebrations around the world. The unit of work had a strong focus on working cooperatively in a group. Students were asked to collaborate as a group to prepare a short performance consisting …
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The Arts: Dance - Above satisfactory - Years 7 and 8
This portfolio of work shows that the student can choreograph dance through the use of elements of dance and choreographic devices to communicate meaning. The student responds to their dance, evaluating in detail how they communicate the prescribed theme, …
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The Arts: Dance - Above satisfactory - Foundation to Year 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can demonstrate control and use well-developed movement and expressive skills (WS1). The student can perform their own choreography and lead a dance partner in a dance performance (WS2). They can …
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The Arts: Dance - Above satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can perform with strong dynamics with control, focus and accuracy, and can structure dance using choreographic devices including transition and contrast. The student is able to demonstrate an understanding …
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The Arts: Dance - Above satisfactory - Years 9 and 10
This portfolio of work shows that the student can choreograph using elements of dance and choreographic devices to communicate their intent and explore stylistic features in detail. The student performs choreography demonstrating technical and expressive …
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The Arts: Dance - Above satisfactory - Years 5 and 6
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can confidently perform a variety of movements and dance sequences with control, accuracy, strength, coordination, alignment and balance (WS1, WS2). The student can perform in collaboration with other …
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Health and Physical Education - Above satisfactory - Years 7 and 8
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can describe a range of physical, social and moral changes that occur during puberty and identify how and why relationships change during this time (WS3). They provide detailed advice about managing …
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Hip-hop: Technology - ABOVE
Students were asked to use dance to explore an issue facing the youth of today in a four-week unit. They were assessed in a summative task that included making (choreography and performance) and responding. Students selected and organised the elements …
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Health and Physical Education - Above satisfactory - Years 1 and 2
This portfolio of student work shows that the student can recognise and illustrate changes that occur as people age, and can identify activities that change with increasing age (WS3). They can recognise personal factors that shape their personal identity …
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Health and Physical Education - Above satisfactory - Years 5 and 6
This portfolio of student work shows that students investigate and explain significant physical and emotional changes experienced during puberty and suggest a range of ways to manage these changes personally and for others (WS6). They explain in detail …
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Health and Physical Education - Above satisfactory - Years 3 and 4
This portfolio of student work shows that the students explain how personal strengths can support and shape their identity (WS6). Students identify qualities they would like to improve and how, by improving this quality, they can overcome challenges (WS6). …
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HASS - Above satisfactory - Year 4
This portfolio of student works shows that the student can recognise the significance of events in bringing about change (WS2, WS3) and the importance of the environment (WS6). The student explains how and why life changed in the past (WS3) and describes …
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Contemporary - ABOVE
Students were given the opportunity to develop their own choreography in response to Keep Everything by Chunky Move, choreographed by Anthony Hamilton. They also experienced and analysed a range of other Australian dance from contemporary and past times …
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Class Performance: Under the sea – Above
During the course of a term, students participated in an annual musical theatre production as an integrated unit that developed their skills across Dance, Drama and Music. The theme was ‘under the sea’ and the Year 2 students collaborated with Year 6 …
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Pairs: Seasons - Above
Students made and responded to dance by exploring seasons as a stimulus in a short unit of work. They also individually choreographed a dance to represent their chosen season. They were guided through the process of developing movements to represent a …
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Ensemble: Site specific – ABOVE
Students studied choreography using a site specified by their teacher as a stimulus. The unit explored different spaces where dance can occur and provided students with the opportunity to choreograph their own work in a specific space. This was an informal …
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Style: Hip-hop - ABOVE
Students were asked to choreograph a dance that explored the stylistic features and culture of hip-hop in a five-week unit. They worked collaboratively in pairs to manipulate and combine the elements of dance, choreographic devices, form and production …
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Choreography: Telling stories - ABOVE
Students investigated how elements of dance can be used to tell a story. The task consisted of two sections that were joined together. The first part engaged the students in the development of understanding of repetition and contrast to communicate their …
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