What’s included in this resource

Introduction: AQA GCSE Dance Assessment Overview Booklet

Welcome to the Dance Resources Assessment Overview Booklet designed for AQA GCSE Dance- an essential tool designed to streamline your teaching approach and support your students throughout their dance education. This booklet is tailored for easy inclusion at the front of exercise books or folders, offering a clear sequence of assessments for students in a chronological order. Beyond assessments, this booklet provides a comprehensive glimpse of our Year 10 and 11 dance curriculum, ensuring your teaching aligns with long-term goals.

You can find two separate overview booklets—one for Year 10 and another for Year 11. These booklets are fully editable, giving you the freedom to customise them according to your course length and learning journey. Whether your course spans two or three years, you can easily modify the content to fit your needs.

Key Benefits:

Assessment Clarity: This booklet breaks down each assessment using straightforward language, making it accessible for both teachers and students. The user-friendly criteria descriptions ensuring everyone understands what’s expected.

Student-Friendly Insight: Every unit has a student-friendly overview that aids students in understanding their learning journey. This empowers them to articulate their progress and comprehend their objectives.

Prepared for Inspection/Deep Dives: For Ofsted inspections or deep dives, the booklet serves as a tangible representation of your curriculum’s structure and student-centered focus. Allowing students to use as a guide when articulating their learning process.

Amplifying Pupil Voice: Students can use the booklet to reflect on their growth, express challenges, and voice their goals, fostering a stronger sense of ownership in their learning experience.

Efficient and Effective: With spaces for feedback and time-saving tick sheets, the booklet simplifies the assessment process, allowing you to concentrate on teaching.

The Overview Advantage:

Not only that, but they also incorporate a comprehensive long-term plan outlining the dance resources to be covered in Year 10 and Year 11, providing you with a strategic overview of GCSE dance. This overarching plan serves as the foundation for each scheme of work we will introduce to our shop, ensuring that every scheme aligns seamlessly with this assessment booklet.

Download formats

Our files come in 2 different sets of formats.

You will receive a zip file for Microsoft Office files (MS Word and MS Powerpoint). Please note that the Google Form quizzes are incompatible with Microsoft related products.

You will also receive a link to a shared google drive folder which will allow you to copy files to your own google drive folder allowing you to assign these using the Google Classroom. Full instructions on these are included within the download links.