Laura Prince Email and Phone Number

Through my consultancy business LP Dance in Education my team and I deliver the following services to Private Nurseries, Primary and Secondary Schools & Local Education Authorities:• CPD Training for Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Early Years Practitioners and Trainee Teachers• Dance Advisory Work Curriculum time: Early Years to KS 4• Teaching in Curriculum time: Early Years to KS 4• Dance Schemes of work (lesson plans) & Resources for Early Years to KS 4 (Members only area on website) • Early Years Creative Educational Dance Programme for 0-5 Years ‘LP Dancing Tots’ delivered in Schools, Private Nurseries and Community classes• Creative Dance Workshops Early Years- KS 4• Extra Curricular Creative Dance Programme (Lunch time & After school dance clubs• Choreography for festivals, and events. LP Dance in Education in the Community• Creative & Cultural Themed Dance Workshops for festivals & events.• Early Years Creative Educational Dance Programme for 0-5 Years ‘LP Dancing Tots’ Community classes• Co-ordination for festivals and events• LP Children's Dance Parties (Creative themes, different styles and choreography

I was awarded Advanced Skills Status for Dance in June 2015 and was subsequently seconded to North Tyneside LEA two days a week as an AST and co-ordinator for Dance. Within this role I was responsible for delivering Advisory work and CPD to primary, secondary and special schools across North Tyneside and neighbouring LEAs, to students on the Northumbria University PE SCITT and the North Tyneside Early Years SCITT courses as well as at various conferences.I was also responsible for the organisation and coordination of dance festivals, professional dance residencies, gifted and talented provision and youth dance groups. I personally choreographed for local youth dance and gifted and talented dance groups, which performed at both local and national level.Advanced Skills Status was a status awarded to the UK's most outstanding teachers between 1998-2015. The role was introduced to reward excellent teachers who chose to stay working in classrooms, rather than following other routes to promotion through leadership. http://bit.ly/2mfJOKr

Whitley Bay Carnival has gone from strength to strength over the past three years under the creative eye of Carnival Producer Carol Alevroyianni. Carol has put together a fantastic team of local people and LP Dance in Education are delighted to be part of this team. My role with the carnival is to co-ordinate the Costume Design and Creation and Dance/Choreography workshops with the local schools for the carnival.

Whilst working as a PE and Dance Teacher at John Spence Community High School, I alongside teachers from two other local secondary schools formed the North Shields Schools Dance Association. Together we organised and co-ordinated over 600 pupils from four Secondary Schools and over thirty Primary schools to perform over three consecutive nights at the annual North Shields Schools Dance Festival. The festival specialised in creative dance with themes ranging from 'The World of Sport' . 'Language to Dance to' 'Past & Present' to name but a few. The festival continues to run every year and I and the rest of my team now solely work with the local schools to deliver creative dance workshops and choreograph for the festival.

My first teaching post was at John Spence Sports College in North Tyneside as a PE Teacher with specialism for dance, which opened the door to many opportunities for me.In my second year of teaching I was released to support primary teachers in the local feeder primary schools in the delivery of dance and gymnastics and I also began delivering Dance CPD for the Local Education Authority (LEA).By my third year of teaching I was second in department responsible for the setting up and delivery of GCSE Dance, KS 3 & 4 Dance, the Dance Leaders Award (John Spence was a pilot school for the Dance Leaders Award) and for KS 2 and 3 Transition.My dance advisory work in the feeder primary schools was selected in 2003 by Dance Network as a ‘best practice’ case study looking at raising standards in primary schools for Key Stage 2 and 3 transition and in 2004 I co-wrote the Dance Schemes of work for North Tyneside LEA.In 2005 I was awarded Advanced Skills Status (AST) for dance, a national recognition of the UK’s most outstanding teachers. I was seconded to North Tyneside LEA for two days a week and continued to work work at John Spence on a part time basis until August 2013.

This was an amazing opportunity, working alongside the UK’s most inspirational educational dance practitioners and helping to shape the future of dance in schools at government level.