Catalyst • Junior Secondary Curriculum • Handbook 2021
Discovery
Course Year 8
Dance
Year 8 Dance explores contemporary movement
and dance skills with a focus on improvisation,
composition and working with the elements of
dance (BEST-body, space, energy and time) and
choreographic devices to create more complex
solo, duo and group choreography. Students will
develop a range of popular dance techniques such as
contemporary, Hip Hop, Jazz and/or Funk to attain
greater technical competence in relation to body
control, strength, balance and coordination. Students
are provided with opportunities to present dance to
others in informal and formal settings, developing
performance skills of expression, projection, focus
and greater technical mastery. Reflective writing
tasks are embedded into the program as part of the
development of individual response, interpretation and
the reflection on the meaning of dance.
Safe dance practices underlie all experiences, as
students perform within their own physical capabilities
and work safely in groups.
The focus of this course is:
• Acquire and develop fundamental skills in
balance, co-ordination, body control, accuracy,
posture/alignment, strength and flexibility
• Promote team building and group problem solving
skills
• Develop improvisation and composition skills and
processes
• Create and perform dance movement and
movement sequences
• Learning safe dance practices
• Further develop aesthetic response to the making
of performance work
For additional details about this Arts Discovery course,
please contact:
Mr Brad Minchin
Head of Arts
(08) 9377 9285
[email protected]
Discovery
Course Year 8
French Language X
This course is suitable for students who have
completed Year 7 French Language at Guildford
Grammar School or who have equivalent experience
in French.
The focus of this discovery course is:
• At home: describing your house and bedroom
For additional details about this Language Discovery
course, please contact:
Mr James Cheah
Head of Languages
(08) 9377 8517
[email protected]
• In town: knowing where to go when travelling to
France
• Chic and tailored: fashion and trendy looks
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