"Write Dance"

WRITE DANCE
This is a fantastic addition to the learning experience of those pupils who struggle to form letters or numbers. This may be because they have a disability or a special educational need, for example a child coping with dyspraxia has great difficulty organising movement of any kind especially the more intricate movement required to operate a pencil successfully.

How it works A story is told to the pupils to begin with for them to `set the scene’ for example a robot moving through the town making sharp angulated movements, the pupils then find themselves a space and begins to move like the robot to an apt piece of music.

This simulates the movements required to produce numbers and letters with straight lines like and `A’ and a `K’ or a `4’ and a `7’.

Once the children have experienced this they are given a large sheet of paper or chalk for the playground to make marks on the paper or playground just as they were with their movements. Sharp, angulated, edged marks on the sheet, with 2 different colours.

Children enjoy the process from the story, to the movement, to the mark making, bringing enjoyment to a very difficult area for these children.

A Hopton