• Sample portrait: a young woman with fair hair pinned back, hoop earrings and a plain sweatshirt, against a pale wall (monochrome)Sample

    Ffion Royle

    Principal and tap teacher · Tap

    Ffion taught PE at a secondary school in the town for eleven years, and the lunchtime tap club she started there had a waiting list within three terms. She retrained as a dance teacher in the evenings, and every tap group at Halfpoint, adults included, is hers.

    • Dance teaching qualification in tap (sample)
    • Enhanced DBS check (sample)
    • First aid trained (sample)
    • Safeguarding lead (sample)
    Try a tap lesson with Ffion
  • Sample portrait: a curly haired woman looking back over her shoulder against mist (monochrome)Sample

    Lydia Bagshaw

    Ballet teacher · Ballet

    Lydia worked as a physiotherapy assistant before she qualified to teach ballet, and it shows: her classes start on the floor, and nobody is asked to force a position their hips are not ready for. She teaches all three ballet groups.

    • Dance teaching qualification in ballet (sample)
    • Enhanced DBS check (sample)
    • First aid trained (sample)
    Try a ballet lesson with Lydia
  • Sample portrait: a young man with swept back hair and a dark sweatshirt (monochrome)Sample

    Joel Kinder

    Street and acro teacher · Street and Acro

    Joel competed in gymnastics for Derbyshire until he was seventeen and found street dance at university in Sheffield. He teaches every acro and street group, and he is the reason the studio owns twelve crash mats.

    • Dance teaching qualification in street dance, and an acro coaching certificate (sample)
    • Enhanced DBS check (sample)
    • First aid trained (sample)
    Try an acro lesson with Joel

Fictional sample profiles. The portraits are stock photographs of models, not Halfpoint teachers.

Safeguarding

Looking after pupils.

Ffion Royle, our principal, is the school’s safeguarding lead. Children are signed in and out by a parent or carer at every class, and no child leaves with anyone the school has not been told about (sample school policy).

Every teacher holds an enhanced DBS check (sample claim).

General guidance, England and Wales: teaching children once a week or more is regulated activity, so a dance teacher can be asked for an enhanced DBS check with a children’s barred list check. In Scotland the equivalent check comes from Disclosure Scotland through the PVG scheme, and in Northern Ireland from AccessNI.

How the school looks after children

Come and try a lesson.

Choose a group below to start a trial request: a lesson from the next fortnight, then a reply from the teacher. Nothing is booked until they confirm it. The trial lesson is free.

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A fictional dance school

This is a demonstration website. Halfpoint Dance School is not a real business: calls, emails and social links don’t contact anyone, and no request is sent, stored or booked.

Close note

Demo website

A fictional dance school.

This is a demonstration website. Calls, emails and social links don’t reach a real school, and the number shown is an Ofcom drama range example.

Classes, fees, teachers, reviews and the summer show here are fictional samples. Nothing is booked, sent or stored.