Why not spend May learning our Dance Maynia dance routine or creating your own dance routine in your Daily Boost sessions and log your minutes of activity to earn your Boost Bands!

If you would like to give your pupils the opportunity to showcase their talents, we would like to invite you to take part in our new Annual Daily Boost Dance Competition!

Our focus is on participation rather than performance, so anyone can get involved and just enjoy dancing for fun.

This year we are looking for a school to represent their district at the School Games Summer Festival - 24th June. A maximum of 12 pupils from each school's dance group will be able to take part in the opening ceremony warm up and then take part in our all new Dance workshops throughout the day.

Submit your entry to your SSPAN/SGO or directly to a.bird@active-together.org by 10th June deadline.

We will make a randomised selection and inform the selected schools by 17^th June,2022

We will share the school entries on Twitter & the Daily Boost website to celebrate every pupils involvement.

Criteria for entry:

1. Daily Boost registered school – Its easy to join if you have not already https://www.dailyboost.org/dailyboostregister

2. The Dance group must be available to attend the School Games Summer Festival on 24^th June

2. Inclusive, evoke the spirit of the School Games

3. Video submission to be approx. 2.5 minutes with permissions to appear on social media and the Daily Boost webpage

4. Music of your choice

5. Landscape format

We cannot wait to see a great variety of Fun, inclusive, entertaining entries, that celebrate the joy of dancing/movement to music!!

This year a group of pupils at Thomas Estley Community College won a county wide competition to create a dance video exclusively for our Daily Boost registered schools and will be used as the warm up routine for the School Games Summer Festival on 24^th June, 2022.

Below is the full routine and then we have filmed them teaching each segment for you to learn! There is also a pdf with each move written down and the number of times it is repeated.

We have been busy creating some dance themed resources for you to use during this challenge!

These include:

• 5-minute Dance Video Combos - Anita has put together some Mini Boost dance routines, which you can do in the classroom as a brain break or as a wake up and shake up - you decide!
• Cube Template - Cut this out and attach to some card and then write down some dance moves of your choice. Put the cube together and then throw like a dice to create your unique dance "Mini Boost "session.
• Activity card - 'Create your own activity card'. Add your own dance moves onto each square, cut them out and pick some at random to create and achieve your own unique dance routine!

These resources & those from previous Challenges can be found below. You can also come up with your own ideas, we encourage student voice in our Daily Boost Programme so you are able to be creative.

As well as Daily Boost resources, Zoom has recommended some other dance favourites which you can try out during the Dance MAYnia Challenge, either in the classroom or at break times.

Click on each image to direct you through to using and exploring each resource.