KS2: The Blitz - Slideshow

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Still images from Unit 1: The Blitz - showing planning, creating, performing and assessing

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1. Year 6 pupils creating dramatic lightning shapes for their dance about 'The Blitz'.
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2. Working on travelling steps between each dramatic lightning shape.
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3. Initial composition ideas for combining buildings and lightning.
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4. Class teacher, Bekki, oversees the careful balances required to create the building shapes. Safety is paramount!
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5. Perfecting the timing during the Dance Challenge.
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6. Refining the building shapes and lightning.
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7. Pupils review their creative work with the use of tablets.
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8. Creating the building shapes during performance.
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9. The climax of the dance Performance - lightning shapes and collapsing buildings combined in a 'Question & Answer' sequence.
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10. The Cool down - pupils gradually sink to the floor as the crumbling buildings and are still.

Resources

Dance frameworks for Unit 1: 'The Blitz'

Use the frameworks to extend the dance experience beyond 'The Blitz' into a range of other cross-curricular WW2 themes.

Click here for the completed Framework template - a guide to creating your own.

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