Level 1 Skills Term: Structure, Planning, Content Ideas for a Successful Skills Term 606010 [UK Time Zone]

This Level 1 training session is designed to support Stagecoach teachers in delivering an exciting, well-structured, and purposeful Skills Term—a vital part of the Stagecoach year that focuses on progression, technique, and creativity across all disciplines.

In this session, Singing, Dancing, and Acting teachers will explore how to bring the Stagecoach Educational Framework to life through practical tasks and imaginative activities that embed key skills across a 12-week term. We’ll look at effective planning strategies, including the two-week repertoire rotation delivery model that allows time to explore new skills within exciting material, with chance to revisit, refine, and deepen learning as the term progresses.

As Skills Term typically doesn’t culminate in a performance, this session also highlights exciting alternative opportunities to celebrate learning and showcase teaching, such as Bring a Friend Day and Parents Do Stagecoach events. These are excellent ways to share the educational value and creativity of Stagecoach with families and the wider community.

We'll also explore how this term provides an ideal platform to introduce examinations and certifications—such as Trinity exams, and MN Awards Acting for Screen—to further stretch and reward students for their progress.

Whether you're new to delivering a Skills Term or looking to refresh your approach, this session will leave you with a toolkit of adaptable ideas, exciting content, and clear structure to make your Skills Term both enriching and enjoyable for students—and fulfilling for you as a teacher.

Training facilitated by: Ami Rowe

Having spent the last 12 years on team at Stagecoach Maidenhead, Ami has enjoyed the privilege of getting to work with students from Mini’s, through to Early Stages and most prominently Mains and Furthers, primarily focusing on drama; she has supported many of them to secure industry work, agency places and roles in some very exciting film productions. Ami feels passionately about the potential drama and music have to radically change a young person’s experience of the world, and their impact on it. Following a first class degree in Performing Arts in community contexts, Ami utilised drama, dance and music to actively make a difference to young people’s experiences, harnessing creativity for change in schools, with homelessness, in prisons, in the corporate world and beyond, both in this country and overseas. Ami is a classically trained opera singer but would far rather belt out a Disney ballad, truth be told. As a foster carer, adopter and trainer for the local authority, and with 5 children at home, Ami combines reflective methods of understanding children and mindfulness with the power of creativity and performance to contribute to the 'team around every child’ and is excited to ensure all students get to reach their own version of 10/10, whether that looks like a West End debut or having the courage to share their story in front of the classroom.

Important Advisory on Course Levels

Please note: The term "level" as used in our teacher training courses refers solely to Stagecoach's internal framework of professional development. It is designed to indicate progression within our own three-tier training structure and should not be interpreted as representing a formal qualification level. These internal levels are not equivalent to primary qualifications and do not correspond to any nationally recognised attainment levels as defined by Ofqual or any other awarding body. By proceeding with your booking, you acknowledge that you understand and accept this distinction.