Curriculum

KS4 Courses

We run the AQA GCSE Dance course that around 17,000 students across the country took last year. Students learn the technical and expressive skills to perform dance, the compositional skills to create their own choreographies and the skills required to analyse professional dance that we study at the theatre and on film. The course is 80% practical and 20% written which means the majority of curriculum time is actually spent dancing!

As part of the course students get many performance opportunities, both in school and in a range of other venues. Each year we take students on the Careers in Dance day at Sadler’s Wells Theatre to consider dance-related options after GCSEs. Some students go on to pursue a career in the dance industry, whilst many simply enjoy using their ability and enthusiasm to achieve their GCSE certificate.