The Education (Curriculum Minimum Content) Order (Northern Ireland) 2007

DanceN.I.

Pupils should be enabled to:

  • use different parts of the body to explore personal and general space and to move using simple actions;

  • listen to, and move in response to, different stimuli and accompaniments;

  • move in a controlled manner, at different speeds and in different directions, using different levels in space, (high, low), and different strengths (heavy, light);

  • perform simple steps and movements to given rhythms and musical phrases;

  • create, practise, remember and perform simple movement sequences;

  • develop their movements progressively individually and in pairs.