PE - Dance/Gymnastics footwear

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southernmum91 · 18/05/2014 16:08

Just curious what the policy is around the country? At DD school it's bare feet for both but she says her friend wears trainer for dance (at a different school)?

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BackforGood · 18/05/2014 18:18

Bare feet - you can't dance or do gym in trainers.

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southernmum91 · 18/05/2014 18:22

That's what I think! But DD think's it's unnecessary and her teacher is just being difficult, didn't know if it was common these days.

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LIZS · 18/05/2014 18:23

what type of dance is it ?

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southernmum91 · 18/05/2014 18:26

I have no idea - the sort we did in PE was kind of creative and I'm sure we always had bare feet, same for gymnastics

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jo164 · 19/05/2014 17:36

Bare feet for both. Although if I am teaching dance I don't mind if they wear a light weight dance shoe, such as a jazz or ballet shoe.

Picturesinthefirelight · 19/05/2014 17:39

Bare feet for gymnastics, contemporary & modern

Trainers for street dance (should be split sole jazz trainers really but they are expensive)

Jazz or ballet shoes are good for those styles as its difficult to do some turns for example in bare feet but to be honest most secondary school dance classes won't be advanced enough for that.

17leftfeet · 19/05/2014 17:44

Dance they can wear jazz shoes if they have them but they aren't a requirement until GCSE when dance is an option

Bare feet for everyone else and everyone in bare feet for gym

Picturesinthefirelight · 19/05/2014 18:05

Those who are secondary school dance teachers:

The school dd should have gone to didn't offer gcse dance & I guess I was a bit meh about it as a gcse subject thinking it was all untrained kids pretending to be trees!

But it's compulsory at her new school as she is on a specialist dance course. Is it a worthwhile qualification or is it just an easy way to get an extra gcse for a group of kids who'll be about Inter/Adanced 1 level by then?

Picturesinthefirelight · 19/05/2014 18:06

Those who are secondary school dance teachers:

The school dd should have gone to didn't offer gcse dance & I guess I was a bit meh about it as a gcse subject thinking it was all untrained kids pretending to be trees!

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