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Dance Leaders Award

Level 1 Award in Dance Leadership
This is a leadership qualification that is accredited by Sports Leaders UK. It requires students to take part in leading dance activities to other young dancers and volunteer their time to take a leading but supported role in organised dance activities. At Barking Abbey School this qualification is kick started with a project with one of our feeder primary schools. This year we had a Bollywood project with Year 2 students from Manor Infant School that was performed at the Boroughs Molten Festival.

After this project students undertake various units to gain the qualification such as:

• Communication and organisational skills.
• Planning and preparation.
• Assisting with a dance activity.
• Health and Fitness.
• Safe Practice.
• Music and dance relationships.
• Opportunities in dance.
• Leadership.

Leadership Activities
In the last part of the course students will be assigned in pairs to a local primary school or youth dance group and will help to lead and choreograph dance sessions. Each pair will work together to decide on the stimulus for their group and will work on creating a short dance piece. This culminates with a performance of all of the work created by students at the borough primary dance festival in July.

Once students have completed these units successfully they will then receive the Dance Leaders Award.