Summary

Work experience

• Dance Teacher

  Sole Star Arts.

  2011.03-Current

  (14 years)

  Dance teacher to ages 4-16 years and choreographing for two main theatre performances, competitions and events. Helping to organise, with the creative process, costume making, backstage and performing with the students.
• Dance and Drama Teacher

  Friern Barnet Arts Specialist College

  2021.04-2021.12

  (8 months)

  Dance and Drama Teacher in a secondary school. Teaching KS3 and assisting KS4 GCSE Dance. Adapting classes for the mixed abilities including SEN and EAL students making sure every student has an equal opportunity to learn. Following the school curriculum and responsibilities of the school. Assessing and monitoring students progress and behaviour to ensure students achievement. Choreographing for the school musical and after school dance club.
• Early Years Ballet Teacher

  Tippy Toes Ballet

  2016.09-2021.07

  (5 years)

  Teaching creative ballet to ages 2-6 years through using props, stories, songs, imagination, and themes. Inspiring their love of ballet and developing vital cognitive, social, fine motor, gross motor and communication skills.
• Street Dance Teacher

  North London Street Dance Academy

  2013.10-2021.07

  (8 years)

  Teaching ages 2-14 years authentic street dance, hip hop, breaking, locking, waacking, krumping, and house dance. Choreographing for theatre performances and events. After school street dance teacher teaching KS1 and KS2 in primary schools. Early years creative street dance teacher teaching in a nursery.
• Dance and Fitness Instructor

  Epping Forest District Council.

  2012.10-2021.07

  (9 years)

  Street and jazz dance teacher for primary after school club choreographing for performance opportunities. Adult and older adult dance fitness and Pilates instructor developing cardio, strength, balance, coordination, and posture.
• Street and Creative Dance Teacher.

  Riverside School, Woodgreen Inclusive Learning Campus.

  2019.09-2019.09

  Maternity dance teacher cover teaching KS3 and KS4 during their P.E lessons to students with different learning abilities and needs. Independently creating lesson plans and choreographing for the Christmas performance.
• Dance Artist

  The Dance Network Association

  2016.09-2018.05

  (2 years)

  Older Dancers Project teaching 60 years + creative and contemporary dance. Interactive Families Project teaching early years and family members creative and contemporary dance using props, songs, stories and imagination. The Broadway Theatre Youth Dance Company teaching 12-16 years contemporary dance. Keeping Dance Alive Projects, mass choreography where different schools come together to perform at huge venues including a football stadium and a cricket ground. Taught the Bollywood choreography and performed with the students. Step into Dance RAD, secondary after school club teaching street and contemporary dance.
• Street and Creative Dance Teacher.

  Whitefield Academy Trust, Special Education, Walthamstow.

  2013.09-2015.07

  (2 years)

  Teaching early years, KS1/KS2/KS3/KS4 and post 16 during P.E lessons street and creative dance. Students have a variety of needs and abilities and lessons were adapted to suit all making lessons inclusive. Building a rapport with individual students to ensure all learning styles were met and all students had an equal opportunity to dance and express themselves.

Educational experience

• Society for Education and Training

  Dance

  2019.01-2019.08

  (8 months)

  Qualified Teacher Learning and Skills Status (QTLS).
• Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance

  Level 6 Dance Teaching and Learning.

  2017.04-2018.06

  (a year)

  Learning and developing teaching strategies, styles and theories to implement into my teaching to give my students an authentic teaching experience. Achieved Distinction.
• Urban Strides

  Dance Teaching.

  2014.08-2014.08

  Level 4 Diploma in street dance teaching, developing authentic street dance and teaching skills.
• Safe in Dance International

  Healthy Dance Practice

  2013.05-2014.05

  (a year)

  Dance health and safety, injury prevention, nutrition and hydration, psychological considerations, principles of functional alignment, anatomical anomalies, participation risk factors, warm up and cool down, safe progression, stretching and lifting.
• National Association of Teachers of Dancing

  Contemporary Dance

  2013.11-2013.12

  Diploma of Contemporary Dance Grades 1-6.
• Fitness Industry Education

  Exercise to Music

  2013.01-2013.08

  (8 months)

  Level 2 Certificate in Fitness Instructing (ETM).
• Health and Fitness Education

  Pilates

  2012.05-2013.05

  (a year)

  Level 3 diploma in teaching mat Pilates.
• Edge Hill University

  Dance

  2006.09-2009.07

  (3 years)

  Bachelor of Arts Second Class Honours Division One (2:1) Applied Dance Teaching Module: Teaching creative and technique workshops to ages 3-18. Dance Production, Choreography & Performance Module: Exploring movement material, expanding on performance s