Dancefest: Dance in Herefordshire and Worcestershire

Dancefest in Education Primary Project and Sharing Spring/Summer 2022

Welcome to our Dancefest in Education EYFS and Primary programme 2022 - we look forward to sharing the power and joy of creative dance with your school.

What we do in 2022

Our brand new Dancefest in Education Primary Project is Rivers; explored creatively through engaging, challenging and fun dance sessions led by our experienced team with collectively many years of experience in delivering dance in schools.

Rivers will

Dive into children's river poetry and local stories of floods, rills and marshes.
Explore the highs and low tides of living by a river,
Build dance around today's global environmental issues and what we can do.

Other projects available

We also deliver a wide range of National Curriculum linked schemes of work including but not limited to:

Our Carbon Footprint
Mini Beasts and Where to Find Them - EYFS/KS1
All About Me! - Personal, social and emotional development through dance - EYFS/KS1
Journey through the Jungle - EYFS/KS1/KS2 adaptable (Rainforests)
Seasons and the Weather they bring - EYFS/KS1
Festivals and Celebrations - KS1/KS2
BOOST! Your mental health -Keeping our hearts and heads happy! - KS2
Ancient Egyptians and the River Nile - KS2
Explorers - KS2

We deliver our primary projects throughout the academic year, usually in school clusters culminating in a collective sharing of dance hosted by the local high school.

How long and how much

Our dance leader will be with you for 5/6 weeks, delivering weekly 1 hour workshops.

The hourly rate is £40 plus travel @45p per mile from Hereford/Worcester.

We deliver 2 workshops per week in most schools, here's a few example costs:

2 classes per week x 6 weeks = £480 plus travel @45p per mile from Hereford/Worcester
1 class per week x 6 weeks = £240 plus travel @45p per mile from Hereford/Worcester

Find out more and book

Please email Janene Wyatt our Dance Development Leader for Children at janene@dancefest.co.uk

Janene will send you a project confirmation form to complete, explaining our Covid-safe guidelines for Dance leaders and for you to inform us of any additional Covid 19 guidelines at your school.