AQA GCSE Dance: Reviewing the 2025 Exams
Course Code: T0367
£249.00
ABOUT THIS COURSE
This comprehensive course is designed to help teachers turn common mistakes from the 2025 AQA GCSE Dance exams into opportunities for growth and improvement. The course will provide valuable insights into student performance, highlight key areas of concern, and offer practical strategies to refine your teaching approach. Through expert-led sessions, you will explore ways to better prepare students for future exams, enhance their written and practical responses, and ensure they meet the demands of AQA GCSE Dance assessments.BENEFITS OF ATTENDING
- Gain a detailed understanding of key lessons from the 2025 exams
- Identify patterns in student performance across both practical and written components
- Improve student responses to performance analysis, choreography, and extended writing tasks
- Develop strategies to help students refine their technical and expressive skills in performance
- Learn how to engage and support mixed-ability students in both practical and theoretical elements of the course
PROGRAMME
10.00am: Understanding the 2025 Exam Performance- Key takeaways from the 2025 exams – successes and areas for improvement
- Identifying patterns in student performance across the written and practical elements
- Understanding common errors and misconceptions in students’ responses
- Developing a plan of action to improve student outcomes and refine teaching practices
10.45am: Break
11.00am: Mastering the Written Exam – Extended Responses and Choreographic Analysis
- How student responses compared to examiner expectations in the written exam
- Structuring high-quality answers that meet AO1, AO2, and AO3 requirements
- Teaching students how to analyse and evaluate professional works effectively
- Strategies to improve clarity, depth, and focus in extended written responses
11.45am: Improving Practical Performance and Choreography
- Common challenges faced by students in practical performance and choreography
- Strengthening students’ technical and expressive skills in solo and group performances
- Strategies to help students develop choreographic intent, motif development, and structuring skills
- Supporting students in responding creatively to exam stimuli and choreographic tasks
12.30pm: Lunch
1.30pm: NEA Spotlight – Coursework and Performance Evaluation
- Understanding AQA grade boundaries for practical work and written coursework
- Why students miss out on marks and how to address these issues
- Supporting students in producing clear, structured, and insightful analysis of their own and others’ performances
- Teaching students how to reflect effectively on their practical work and apply feedback for improvement
2.30pm: Break
2.40pm: Moving Forward – Maximising Success in 2026 and Beyond
- Embedding assessment objectives in lesson delivery to improve focus and exam preparedness
- Skill-based teaching approaches to enhance student performance, analysis, and evaluation in dance
- Engaging and practical strategies to support mixed-ability students and improve their understanding of key performance and choreography skills
- Action planning for continued success in future AQA GCSE Dance exams
3.30pm: Depart
GCSE - Code: T0367
AQA GCSE Dance: Reviewing the 2025 Exams
COURSE LEADER
Claire Noonan is an experienced Head of Dance, and has been teaching GCSE and A-Level Dance for over twenty years. GCSE Results for 2022 for her students were 39% grades 8 – 9, 50% grades 7 – 9 and 100% grades 5 – 9. Progress 8 score 1.45. At A Level her students attained 35% A*, 64% A*/A grades and 100 A* - C grades. She continually receives outstanding grade 1s on lesson observations.
She is a Specialist Leader in Education (SLE) and has improved the quality of dance provision in a number of schools. She also has a wealth of experience in working with a range of professionals to ensure her students feel inspired for dance theory and prepared for their future dance training.
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