With our educational dance workshops, your pupils will explore styles linked to various topics, world events and celebrations.
Our workshops allow all pupils to develop and shine away from the classroom.
Book The Best "Dance Days" - Educational dance workshops for schools help enrich your pupils' learning and link to many school topics, world events and celebrations. With over 1000 5* reviews from verified teachers!
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Where we travel to
We can visit your school in: East Midlands, West Midlands, London & South East, East of England, South West, North West, Yorkshire
What activities are available during this school workshop?
Our dance styles include:
African Dance and Black History Month.
Carnival Dance, including Brazil and Rio.
Chinese Dance for Chinese New Year.
Decades Dance takes your pupils through the years.
Flamenco and Spanish Dance.
Indian Dance linking to Diwali.
International & Multicultural days or weeks come alive with our dance workshops.
Musicals are off-topic but great for something different.
Olympic Dance covers various styles of dance.
Street Dance is upbeat and ideal for PE.
Strictly Dance includes the classic styles of dance.
World Book Day encompasses some of the greatest books written.
We have over 30 dance styles to choose from, and you can mix and match to create your own Dance Day.
Which curriculum topics do we cater for?
Dance
We bring the chosen subject and style to life, through dance. Dance helps boost wellbeing, gets children active and moving in an inclusive setting, none contact and no competition, it will unlock a different side to many children.
Citizenship
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Team building
Our workshops help many pupils with team building and depending on the chosen style will include partner work.
Music
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Listening to Music
We explore the rhythm of the music for the chosen style and the dance steps delivered are broken down into manageable chunks, building on the choreography.
Performing Arts
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All of our workshops help bring the subject to life, mainly through movement and dance and includes spacial awareness and build on confidence.
Physical Education
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Our workshops get your pupils moving, helping with PE in a none traditional way, it's a great way to get pupils active who don't always enjoy PE.
PSHE
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Healthy Living Teamwork and resilience Mental health and awareness
We promote healthy living as our workshops encourage your pupils to be active, and incorporate teamwork through dance.
Religious Education
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Religious Festivals
Depending on the chosen style we will include a short powerpoint presentation that can be showing before or during the workshops, this will include some of the backgrounds behind the style or subject.
What size groups do we cater for?
From experience, up to 30 pupils per session work best. You can have up to 8x 30-minute sessions (during a full day) or increase the duration and reduce the number of sessions.
Group sizes can be discussed when you send through your requirements.
Groups with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND)
Yes, all of our styles can be adapted to SEND pupils and settings.
Yes, all of our styles can be adapted to SEND pupils and settings.
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Anything else?
We will take your requirements and work with you to build your ideal Dance Day, and you can include many of our styles or focus on a particular style.
The timetable can be flexible and include a mix of 30 to 60-minute sessions, depending on the number of classes or year groups taking part.
Who are Dance Days?
Dance Days have been providing educational, interactive and fun dance workshops for schools since 2013, and we visit schools in London, the South East, the Midlands, the North West and Yorkshire. We are continuously building our team to enable further coverage of the UK.
We inspire, educate and boost confidence through dance and provide a unique experience without breaking the budget.
Many of our dance workshop styles link directly to the school curriculum and enrich your pupils' learning while helping with PE in a nontraditional way. We adapt the delivery of our workshops so they are suitable from Nursery age right through to Secondary School.
We are very proud to have received such great feedback from teachers; this is down to our highly skilled teaching team, all of whom have enhanced DBS checks.
We have over 1000 verified 5* reviews from teachers, with many schools booking their dance workshops with us termly and yearly.
Our Reviews from Schools..
★★★★★ Staff were well prepared with the appropriate music and age appropriate choreography. Pupils were engaged and were able to retain the step of the choreography. Staff maintained good behaviour management strategies throughout each session, expected behaviour was shared and discussed with pupils.
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