Term 4 Overviews, 2024
Chayse Montgomery - Foundation to Grade 2
Claire Rosenhain - Grade 3 to 6
Foundation:
In Term 4, Students in Performing Arts are learning about various genres of dance and will have the opportunity to try some. These will include Ballet, Ballroom, Bhangra, Hip Hop, Hula and more. Students will be looking at ways to move their bodies, and how to incorporate fabrics and materials to create dance ideas. Foundation students will finish off the year with a festive dance performance.
Chayse Montgomery
Grade 1:
In Term 4, Students in Performing Arts will be learning about, and attempting a range of different dance genres. These will include Ballet, Ballroom, Bhangra, Hip Hop, Hula and more. Students will explore the locomotor and non-locomotor movements and will look at how they can be used in dance. Students will then have the opportunity to learn and perform a festive themed dance in front of a small audience to finish off the year.
Grade 2:
In Term 4, Students in Performing Arts will be engaging in a range of dance genres and will have the chance to participate in some. These include Ballet, Ballroom, Bhangra, Hip Hop, Hula and more. Students will be exploring the difference between locomotor and non-locomotor movement in dance. Grade 2 students will be learning dance choreography and will assist in creating dance routines. They will then finish of the year with performing a festive dance to a small audience.
Grade 3:
During Term Four, students in Year Three will be introduced to the use of dance to tell stories. Multiple dance styles will be explored to examine the ways that different artists and dance companies use both unique and universal movement choices to tell stories without words. Students will have the opportunity create their own dance that tells a story.
Claire Rosenhain
Grade 4 and 5:
During Term Four, students in Years Four and Five will be introduced to drumming techniques. ‘Chair Drumming’ will be used to replicate the skills used in playing a drum kit. Students will have the opportunity play along to different songs of interest to them whilst focussing on strengthening their skills in keeping the beat and playing different rhythms.
Grade 6:
Throughout Term Four students in Year Six will be learning their graduation performance. Using song, body movement and group work, students will learn and rehearse a dance to be performed to families at their graduation ceremony.