
MISS HELEN
DANCE TEACHER
Professional Dancer & Qualified Teacher of Dance & Acrobatic gymnastics. Specialising in teaching within Primary schools for PE & Clubs.
Freelance for Dance Schools.






P.E LESSONS
I travel into schools to teach PE lessons.
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I offer Curriculum dance P.E based on their current topics of work. E.g. Electricity, Fire of London, Castles, Vikings, Heroes, South America, Water Cycle, Heroes, Animals, BFG, Countries...etc.
These lessons over a half term include children working individually, in partners work using mirroring & in groups learning to dance in cannon & building routines together. By giving students lesson objectives & tasks to help improve not only their dance skills but improve their own creativity, social skills, confidence, spatial awareness, flexibility, fitness & stamina.
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I also offer various styles of Dance .
From Morris, Medieval, European national folk dance, street dance, funky jazz to pop music, musical theatre (singing dancing and acting), acrobatics (floor gymnastics)
The dance lessons often work towards learning a routine for a school performance in front of parents in assembly, school production, summer fair or sports days.
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I offer Curriculum & non curriculum Gymnastics PE lessons working on children's strength, stamina & flexibility. Teaching partner & group counter balances, various types of roles & travelling tumbling movements & balances. Children learn how to link a sequence together to build their own routines. I also offer choreography to those schools that want help entering local into school competitions.
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AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS
I also offer after school clubs in:
- Street dance (funky dance to popular pop songs)
- Gymnastics ( Floor gymnasics including solo, partner & group counter balances as well as tumbling skills.)
- Musical Theatre (singing acting & dancing to the kids favourite songs from Musicals, TV & Film. )
- Dance Mix ( a change of styles each week from cheerleading with pompoms, bollywood to ballroom & to lyrical with ribbons to name a few. )
These clubs I mostly split into KS1 one half term & KsS2 the next.
From the infants Reception- year 2 & for juniors year 3- year 6.
Over the years I have worked at the following Primary Schools:
Christ Church Lancaster, Christ Church Carnforth, Carnforth community, Nether Kellet, Arkholme, St. Wilfrids Halton, Caton Community, St Patricks Heysham, Trumacar Heysham, Heysham St.Peters, Scotforth St. Pauls Lancaster, Bowerham Lancaster, Forton, Overton St. Helens, Yealand, & Morecambe Bay. Since 2011.
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School dance events
2017 Heysham St Patricks hired me to teach a class a dance to be performed at Our lady's high school along with other catholic primary schools. The theme of their dance was money.
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November 2019 I was asked to teach a dance afternoon
to a group of primary school children, lots of primary schools came together at Carnforth high school and I taught everyone a dance in the sports hall this was organised by Tim Fletcher. Silverdale , Walton, arkholme, Carnforth community to name a few. It was a great atmosphere.
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Christchurch Carnforth in 2022 asked me to choreograph a routine for the Lancashire inter-school dance competition. The top school in the Lancaster and Heysham area got to perform at the finals on the famous Blackpool Winter Garderns stage. They reached the final representing our area &... what an achievement & experience!!!
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Nether Kellet have had me in yearly for many years now including 2023 to teach street dance & Musical theatre clubs of which the children perform in assembly at school, discos and their school fairs. This is great for the kids confidence with performing in front of an audience!
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Overton have hired me in 2019, 2020 & 2022 to help choreograph , guide & teach their gymnastic pair routines for a local competition with other primary schools organised by Tim Fletcher & 2024 for their maypole routine at their yearly rose queen & King day.
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Yealand primary school asked me to choreograph a shortened version of the famous Nutcracker Ballet in the winter term of 2023. I choreographed just over 10mins of dance using the whole school including their preschool little owls over 6 weeks of lessons, which was then showcased at Christmas time.
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My After school club at Scotforth in 2024 won the inter-school dance competition for our area & got through to the Lancashire finals at Blackpool winter gardens to represent Lancaster. This is now the second school I have taken to the Blackpool finals.
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I also offer Dance Parties. (please see Party page)
I also teach at Pre-schools (please see pre-school page)