Dance Advent Calendar – Day 9
Day 9...one from every kids disco! (well certainly back in my day..) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMz5jr34fi0
Dance Advent Calendar – day 8
A 90s classic today! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXzcHJj_lGA&feature=youtu.be
Everyday creative ideas: closing your eyes
It's been a busy Autumn Term for me and my family - illnesses, injury, big work projects, Halloween and Bonfire Night to name just a few things impacting on our family's ability to be calm and rested at the minute!…
Dance INSET with JumpStart
Bringing Dance into your classroom can be a difficult task for any teacher, especially if you don’t know where to start and don’t have a dance background. Or maybe you are someone with dance experience that just needs modernising. At…
JumpStart Charity update May 2018
Tahnee Lawson and myself visited The Rainbows Hospice earlier this year as our business, JumpStart into Primary School Dance, have chose to support the charity during 2018. We were so moved by our visit, particularly as the lady leading the…
Our own mental health
We've spent the last month or so on the blog discussing the impact of dance on the physical and mental health of children, but lets not forget about ourselves. After all, if our own mental health is out of whack,…
National Obesity Awareness Week
Hi everyone! Happy New Year! Hope you had a lovely, restful and restorative Christmas break? Here at JumpStart HQ we totally unplugged ourselves for two weeks - no social media or emails. It was bliss! And now we're back and…
Dance = health plus…plus…plus
On Saturday I was fortunate enough to have the time (and childcare!) to attend the One Dance UK Conference for Dance Teaching and Participation, at Trinity Laban in London. And what a great day it was! One of the best…
So what exactly is a Dance Artist?
Here at JumpStart, many of the teachers refer to themselves as 'Dance Artists'. These are the people who are visiting Primary Schools to deliver high quality experience days, PPA cover and after-school clubs. But what does the term 'Dance Artist'…