How Tot Bop Classes Help Your Child Get School Ready.

Learning to dance can benefit young children in ways that can contribute to their readiness for school. At Tot Bop, we have not only ensured our classes provide a varied, educational programme, but we’ve also ensured the syllabus we’ve created is underpinned with the EYFS (Early Years Foundation Stage) framework, laid out by the Government. This ensures that right from the offset, our classes are helping your child get school ready.

The Benefits of Learning to Dance at a Young Age

At Tot Bop, we are passionate about getting children moving to music and dancing because we recognise the huge benefits that come from dance and how it can help enhance your child’s development. I believe dance can help develop motor skills, improve balance and co-ordination, enhance imagination, develop rhythm and musical awareness, improve concentration, listening…

The Importance of Storytelling In Dance

When you think of ‘dance’ what do you think of? Ballet, musical theatre, contemporary dance, tap dance, cultural dance like Indian or African dance, Strictly Come Dancing?
There are so many examples of dance … have you ever noticed that within all those examples, there is an artistic purpose, an inspiration, or a reason for the dance’s conception. Sometimes it’s a story, sometimes it’s just a feeling or emotion. But why is that such an important part of dance?