In an exciting new development of our London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Early Years provision, we brought together 2 x Commissioned Artists that specialise in early years dance; Liz Clark and Cherie Coleman alongside local Co-Creative Artists Rachel Newby and Lucy Brown and a writer/facilitator Bobbie Gargrave to support a team of teachers from across the Borough to be curious and creative in designing a new programme and pedagogy for dance in the early years for the Borough.
 

This new development phase of our ‘Early Years Programme’, aimed to empower teaching staff in the Borough to take what has been delivered in their settings over the past 6 years ‘Active Start’ programme and redesign a new phase for early years creative dance giving more ownership to the staff.

 

Overall, offering our children and young people the most appropriate and reflective delivery of dance to build on their creativity and physical development and, therefore, school achievements.

 

This resource pack was created in collaboration with the above artists and school/nursery teachers.