Strictly Comes to the Partnership
February 25th, 2010 |
22 Teaching Staff and Teaching Assistants from 11 Schools across the Partnership came together to put on their dancing shoes. |
| Essentially Dance is a new initiative to teach ballroom and Latin American dance within schools’ core physical education provision. It is the first training package to be launched in the UK that will train only school staff to teach students of all ages – from Key Stages 1 – 5 – and of all abilities – beginner, intermediate and advanced. |
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| The teachers, some of whom had never danced, will now take back the skills they have learnt around the four different dance styles; Cha Cha Cha, Waltz, Jive and Quickstep into schools and deliver sessions to pupils both during curriculum time and also as after school activities. |
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| The Ballroom and Latin training is aimed at enabling schools to be able to provide something a little different for pupils to experience that they might not otherwise get the opportunity to do. You never know we might also find some little Lilia Kopylova’s or Darren Bennett’s of the future. |
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Feedback from those attending was very positive. ‘The dancing course last week was fantastic. Having never done anything like it before was very apprehensive but enjoyed it lots’ – Lynne (Berkley first school, Frome)
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| If you would like to find out more about the programme or to register your schools interest in future training then please contact: Emma Mattocks (Assistant PDM). |
