In the second session Justin Fletcher's movement sequences explore the emergency services.
2. Safety first
The narrative continues as the school children featured in the previous session travel by bus to visit the hospital and then onto the fire station to find out more about different people who help us.
Resources
Download the audio for this dance session as an mp3 file.
Guidance on using the dance sessions in this unit with your group (pdf)
Lesson summary:
**Warm-up: Friends.**Development of the warm-up in the previous programme. Pupils skip through the spaces with light, rhythmic steps then, in pairs, skip round together in a small circle. Repeat.
Bus drivers. Travel through the spaces with the music, stopping each time the music stops to allow more passengers to get onto the bus. Ring the bell with the sound-effects and continue travelling steps with the music.
Hospital helpers. Partners take turns to practise using hands (as doctor or nurse) to âbandageâ different parts of their partnerâs body with focused, smooth circling movements. Then, bandaged like ancient Egyptian âmummiesâ, the patients travel through the spaces with straight, stiff arms and legs.
Bus drivers. Movements and music as above.
Fire fighters. Half the class cluster together with high, wide, outstretched arms like the flames of a fire. The rest of the class travel around, directing imaginary fire-hoses at the dancing flames. Gradually, the music and the flames get slower and smaller, in a tucked-in, crouched position. Children swap groups and repeat.
Traffic police. In the same two groups as above, half the class are âcars and bikesâ and the other half are âbuses and lorriesâ. The groups travel through the spaces, sometimes keeping still. Finally, all the children travel in and out of the spaces together â moving freely, just like the traffic.
Cool down: Class circle. All hold hands and join both ends of the line together to form a big class circle to finish and reflect about âPeople who help usâ.
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