This two-part unit focuses on movements based on traditional nursery rhymes, to help develop children’s awareness of rhythm, dance-phrasing and ability to co-ordinate movements to the beat.

The children discover a number of traditional English folk rhymes and rhythms, becoming aware how they link to dance and to the past. In this first session the rhymes of ‘Oats and beans and ...

Light, joyful and harmless nursery rhymes. At least, that's what we thought... These children's songs, which seem so innocent, sometimes hide stories much darker and more disturbing than we could ...