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All later contact was done via the phone and a meeting which I attended at the school.

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Arranging with Redhill

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All contact made with lees brook was via the phone apart from the initial letter I attached within an email.

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The school I decided to take on board during my placement was Lees Brook Community School in Derby.

I felt this school were providing me with the best opportunities during my time.

When making contact with the school, both Hannah and Marie seemed excited about this opportunity and were eager to support me during this programme. They ensured they could provide me with a wide learning platform; in addition to watching and teaching dance, I have also been provided with the opportunity to observe Drama sessions and help assist with the planning and activities within year 9 and year 10 sessions. I believe attending drama has opened me up to new opportunities. They expressed how difficult finding a dance teacher job is and the importance of being versatile and being able to offer performing arts as a teaching skill.

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When trying to find a placement, I initially found the process difficult; a lot of schools are now steering away from providing dance classes to their students and dance is delivered through PE with a teacher who has little knowledge of dance. This made the process difficult and often challenging as I felt like nowhere was going to take me.

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Unfortunately West Park don't teach performing arts through a dance platform, only some physical education sessions have dance within them. I didn't believe this would be beneficial to my learning platform and decided this school wasn't for me.

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West Park School is a School for Maths and Computing in Spondon Derby and you can access our impressive VLE through this website

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West Park School is a School for Maths and Computing in Spondon Derby and you can access our impressive VLE through this website

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Saint Benedict are known within my local community for excelling within the Performing Arts Sector.

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Welcome to our Academy

Thankyou for taking the time to visit the Saint Benedict Catholic Academy website.

At Saint Benedict we pride ourselves in being a happy school where our young people are at the heart of all that we do. As a Catholic school, we use the life of Christ as our inspiration and our values of love, acceptance and forgiveness can be seen in every aspect of our work.

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Welcome to our Academy Thankyou for taking the time to visit the Saint Benedict Catholic Academy website. At Saint Benedict we pride ourselves in being a happy school where our young people are at the heart of all that we do.

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Friesland is currently labelled as a specialist Performing Arts school; all students attend dance sessions weekly and learn new styles.

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Friesland raised £1,180.71 for Children in Need this year! Thanks to everyone who contributed

Summer 2017 exam certificates are now available for collection from school's main reception

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Friesland School | Specialist Performing Arts College

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Friesland raised £1,180.71 for Children in Need this year! Thanks to everyone who contributed Summer 2017 exam certificates are now available for collection from school's main reception

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Landau teach performing arts as a whole unit at KS3 and provide it as an option to take during year 10 and year 11 gaining an  NCFE Level 2 in Creative Studies in Performance Studies

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Life at Landau will follow after the exam period. Further details will be announced following the external examinations.

Well done to Bilal who attended the recent Show Racism the Red Card event at Derby County. Bilal played a lead role in a debate focusing on how to tackle racism in society and was awarded family tickets to a forthcoming Derby County match.

On Thursday 19 April Future First and IGD, a research and training charity in grocery and distribution, bought 8 volunteers in to work with our Year 12 and 13 students. The volunteers were from a range of national businesses including retailers, manufacturers and the civil service; all with jobs linked to grocery and distribution. In...

Three Landau Forte students attended the regional final of this year's Modern Foreign Language Spelling Bee on 19 April at Stamford School . The competition, which is in its eighth year, is run by Routes into Languages, a government programme which aims to get more children and young people learning and enthusiastic about modern foreign...

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Life at Landau will follow after the exam period. Further details will be announced following the external examinations. Well done to Bilal who attended the recent Show Racism the Red Card event at Derby County. Bilal played a lead role in a debate focusing on how to tackle racism in society and was awarded family tickets to a forthcoming Derby County match.

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Another school I expressed my interests in was Redhill Academy who teach dance at KS3, KS4 and A level. I felt this school would provide me with a wide opportunity to learning the different schemes and ways of teaching and pitching your sessions to different standards.

Emails and contact:
r.dunn@theredhillacademy.org
s.barfoot@theredhillacademy.org
r.udeshi@theredhillacademy.org

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At our most recent inspection (2013), Ofsted judged that "teaching is outstanding" and that "during the inspection ... the teaching observed was consistently effective in capturing students' interest and engagement". Our students were praised for behaving "extremely well in lessons and around the academy site" and for being "calm, considerate and courteous at all times".

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Lees Brook are a school well known within my local area for their work within expressive arts and are always promoting their latest works. This is a school I expressed high levels of interest too and wanted to carry out placement within this institute.

Emails and contact:
handav@leesbrook.co.uk
marwag@leesbrook.co.uk
01332 671723

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In order to find a placement, it was vital to undertake thorough research to understand which schools taught dance at the level I wanted to focus my placement towards - KS3 and KS4.

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In order to find a placement successfully, I filled out a template letter appropriate to send out to idea placement institutes to highlight my interest and aim of progression to finalising placement,

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Whilst on placement I learnt about the potential opportunities you may take whilst teaching. The first role is a dance teacher, teaching dance at both key stage 3 and key stage 4 which can progress into the head of department who takes charge of the units and course that’s being carried out ensuring the best for all dance students.
Another option presented to me alongside being a dance teacher, is training with the exam board to mark papers and go out to grade dance examinations, this role requires extra time and commitment on top of teaching but is something I’d like to consider achieving in the near future.
However, some of the jobs are roles you’d never consider when planning your job career, for example the safe guarding officer was originally the schools only drama teacher; she stressed she never had heard of this role until recent years of teaching, but now safeguarding is such a serious issue that schools are required to have atleast one person dealing with safeguarding around the school ensuring the students are safe.
Other ways of progression is developing your career path and working towards carrying out the head teacher or deputy teacher role - something every school needs. These roles are incredibly important and require masses of responsibility.