Education

We deliver a wide range of high quality workshops tailored to suit your needs within and outside the curriculum.  For more details about the educational projects we have undertaken, click on the links at the bottom of the page.

We can offer:

• one-off workshops
• after-school clubs
• INSET training
• performance projects
• choreographic residences, repertoire and dance technique.

We have extensive experience working with different ages and abilities ranging from nursery age through to University, including special schools and Pupil Referral Units. All our workshop leaders have teaching experience and are professional artists, CRB checked and some hold post-graduate teaching certificates.

"Excellent in monitoring the pupils in the development of team work and thinking skills. Provided the teacher with a good range of ideas and further extension work. Encouraged the pupils to take pride in their performance. The pupils were enthused and proud of their work. They were very keen to participate. The performance was superb. The pupils loved participating and watching the work of other schools and the company. The piece was very relevant - it gave the pupils hands on experience of what inclusion means. It consolidated what we integrate into other curriculum areas. Very professional and well organised. I would highly recommend FRONTLINEdance. I've praised their work to others." Junior School Teacher

"Having worked with FRONTLINEdance before, I understand the benefits that working with the company can do for the school and staff development.  We gained a great deal of experience from working with the company and the support they gave.  Would welcome the opportunity to work with the company again on a personal level to gain further skills and knowledge”.  Springfield Special School

Having FRONTLINEdance come and teach in your school has many benefits, such as:

• bringing professional dance directly into the school environment
• developing teacher confidence within unfamiliar artistic spheres
• introducing new teaching strategies, including planning, development, delivery and new methodology
• providing technical, performance and choreographic skills
• providing new opportunities for collaboration between artist and teachers
• offering wider opportunities of involvement for parents and governors
• building the school's public profile (through media coverage)
• enriching the curriculum building cross-curricular links

FRONTLINEdance have been present in almost all special schools in Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire over the last 8 years from one-day workshops and after-school clubs to regular work and development.

Current work

The Willows Primary School (January - April 2010)

FRONTLINEdance has recently been appointed creative partners for a Creative Partnerships ‘Enquiry’ Project at The Willows Primary School in Penkhull to help the school ‘to enthuse year one children to write through the means of movement and dance, especially the boys’.

Year 1 pupils will become ‘The Willows Adventure Team’. Each week they will go on different imaginative ‘adventures’ inside the school and around its grounds. They will explore and investigate ‘nature’ through movement and dance, enhancing the kinaesthetic approach to learning. After taking part in a practical session the 3 groups will return back to the classroom, where they will write down their experiences. These experiences will then lead to the creation of ‘The Willows Adventure Group Story Book’. The aim is to provide greater understanding of nature and encourage writing by ‘doing’ whilst having fun and developing creativity and imagination.

Rachael and Amy will be working alongside the teachers and pupils at the school during the Spring term. Rachael will also lead CPD sessions for the teachers.

Creative Partnership Projects

Rachael is also working on 2 other Creative Partnership projects at

Walton Hall Special School (January to March 2010) on an ‘Enquiry’ Project to answer: “How can dance be used as a kinesthetic medium to explore and enhance social communication in pupils with learning and communication difficulties - especially those with Autistic Spectrum Difficulties”

Kingsland Nursery who is a ‘Change’ School (January to June 2010): “How can we work focusing on movement and sound to enhance and develop speaking & listening skills, how can we inspire & enable staff through this work, to be both creative & reflective in all areas of their practice and to introduce new ways of using resources and spaces with the children”

Click on the links below to read more about our past Educational projects:

Inclusion2 a dance-in-education tour based on the theme of 'Inclusion' (2004)

"Out of Bounds" an integrated site-specific dance film project (2007)

Staffordshire Moorlands Dance Initiative a two year dance performance project with 55 schools in Staffordshire Moorlands, themes included a 'bullying', 'changing shape', 'inclusion and acceptance' and 'summer' (April 07 - July 09)