Dance Instruction for academic years 2024–2025 and 2025–2026Dance Instruction for academic years 2024–2025 and 2025–2026
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11 September 2025.Prepared internally, no external costs.
Request 731504549
1. Current Provision (2024–2025)
Has your school provided instruction in dance, either as a standalone subject or integrated within the curriculum, during the academic year 2024–2025?
2. Future Provision (2025–2026)
Does your school intend to provide dance instruction, either as a standalone subject or integrated within the curriculum, in the academic year 2025–2026? If so, would your school be interested in receiving assistance or guidance from the British DanceSport Association to support this provision?
3. Dance Styles Offered or Planned
If dance instruction is currently provided or planned, please specify which styles or forms of dance are taught or intended to be taught. For clarity, please indicate which of the following apply:
•American Smooth
•Ballet
•Breakdancing,
•Contemporary (Ballroom and Latin American)
•Jazz, Salsa
•Tap
any other dance styles not listed (please specify).
If your institution does not currently offer dance instruction and has no plans to do so, please confirm this explicitly with a brief explanation as to why.
Response
1. The table below provides information in relation to individual Government of Jersey school responses in regards to their provision for the instruction in dance during the 2024-2025 academic year.
| Government of Jersey School | School Response |
| Bel Royal | Yes |
| D'Auvergne | Yes |
| First Tower | Yes |
| Grands Vaux | Yes |
| Grouville | Yes |
| Janvrin | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| JC Prep | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| La Moye | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| Les Landes | Yes |
| Mont Nicolle | Yes |
| Plat Douet | Yes |
| Rouge Bouillon | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum. |
| Samares | Yes |
| Springfield | Yes |
| St Clement | Yes |
| St John | Yes |
| St Lawrence | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| St Luke | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| St Mary | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| St Martin | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| St Peter | Yes |
| St Saviour | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| Trinity | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| VC Prep | Yes |
| Grainville | Yes |
| Haute Vallee | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| Hautlieu | Yes |
| JCG | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| Le Rocquier | Yes |
| Les Quennevais | Yes as part of the PE Curriculum |
| Victoria College | No |
2. The department does not hold information in relation to future provision of dance instruction for the 2025-2026 academic year; therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied.
3. The table below provides information in relation to the forms of dance that have been made available by individual Government of Jersey schools during the 2024-2025 academic year. Some schools do not record the information and therefore Article 3 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 is applied, this is indicated in the table below with ‘Not recorded’.
| Government of Jersey School | School Response |
| Bel Royal | Country and Western (Line Dance)
Carnival - Samba
Ballet
Rock'n'Roll
Stomp/Bhangra
Jazz/modern
Commercial pop
Lyrical
Musical theatre |
| D'Auvergne | Ballet
Salsa |
| First Tower | Contemporary Ballet |
| Grands Vaux | Ballet Contemporary |
| Grouville | Contemporary Ballroom Latin American
Ballet
Country Dance South American Dance |
| Janvrin | Not recorded |
| JC Prep | Interpretive dance Country dance
Breakdance |
| La Moye | Not recorded |
| Les Landes | Waltz
Country dance / line dancing
Court dancing
Victorian dancing
Interpretive dance
Breakdancing |
| Mont Nicolle | Not recorded |
| Plat Douet | Not recorded |
| Rouge Bouillon | Modern interpretive dance Country dance |
| Samares | Jazz Salsa Multi-genre |
| Springfield | Street Dance |
| St Clement | Not recorded |
| St John | Not recorded |
| St Lawrence | Bollywood Barn Dance American Jive |
| St Luke | Not recorded |
| St Mary | Ballet |
| St Martin | Not recorded |
| St Peter | Not recorded |
| St Saviour | Ballroom Dancing American Smooth Salsa
Modern Dancing
Hip Hop
Latin dance
Street dance |
| Trinity | Not recorded |
| VC Prep | Not recorded |
| Grainville | Jive |
| Haute Vallee | Not recorded |
| Hautlieu | Contemporary Ballroom Latin American
African Dance |
| JCG | Contemporary
Street |
| Le Rocquier | Not recorded |
| Les Quennevais | Ballet
Neo Classical
Hip Hop (including many styles like commercial, breaking, popping, waacking)
Inclusive dance
Contemporary
Contact
Musical Theatre / Jazz
Lyrical
Narrative
Samba |
| Victoria College | N/A
|
Articles applied
Article 3 - Meaning of “information held by a public authority”
For the purposes of this Law, information is held by a public authority if –
(a) it is held by the authority, otherwise than on behalf of another person; or
(b) it is held by another person on behalf of the authority.
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