Aspire SEN Dance Group

25/09/2026

I can't believe we haven't done this sooner! We've never properly introduced the legend that is Miss Helen Spalding!!! Dont worry though! Here she is! Drum roll everybody!!! 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁

My love and passion for dance started at a very young age when I began training at the age of 3 years old. I love performing and danced professionally for many years, travelling across Europe and Asia. I then realised my true passion was teaching and passing my knowledge onto others. I competed as a child myself and strongly feel this is so important for personal growth.
Dance allows children to interact through a common interest , helps build their confidence and team working skills and allows them experiences they would not normally be exposed to.
I love to see my students achieve their personal goals and targets, especially through examination results and scholarship nominations.
I have students who have gone on to some of the top Uk performing arts colleges and vocational ballet schools and have then gone onto work professionally within the industry. Proud is an understatement!
I have also nurtured students into taking their own teaching qualifications and some of these are now part of the teaching faculty within my own school.
I have been a festival , Championship and Miss Dance/Dancemaster adjudicator for 25 years now and I’m also an association examiner.

Our SEN class has now entered its third year and I have to say it’s been one of the most rewarding things I’ve ever done. I truly believe that dance should be available to everyone and when they took their very first exam in July this year I couldn’t have been any more proud 💕

Helen Spalding F.B.A.T.D, RAD rts.
Spalding School of Dance

24/09/2026

Can you believe we're into our 3rd year!

I can't believe how much love this little group gets, and its still going so strong!

The reason this group works so well, is because its so needed. Our SEN kids need a safe space where they can be themselves, be seen and heard, and 100% be here judgement free.

We've had an amazing couple of weeks back, dance certificates given out, new dance routines started and kids settling back down into routines after 6 weeks off!

In a few weeks, were going to be opening some more places up, so if you have a child who struggles in a main stream setting, and havs a love of dance, music and movement drop us a message!

Please note, places are offered at random, its the only fair way we can think of!

19/07/2026

For our kids, the ones that have been told they are less than, too hard to teach, too loud to be around, just too much, Elsie says this ones for you... Keep climbing that wall ❤️

17/07/2026

She's so loved by you guys, it means the world to me 🥰

Shes been overwhelmed with the gifts, gift cards, cards and general love ❤️

Thank you guys for showing her so much love and support!

16/07/2026

Birthday celebration! Cake and buns ❤️

05/07/2026

Today was monumental! Not for a massive event, but for a 15 minute exam... I am so proud of these kids! Honestly I could shout it from the roof top!

Months and months of dance and repeat. Of building a routine, confidence, and skill.

Each of these kids have put in so much hard work! They've turned up when its got hard for them. Pushed past their own personal boundaries.

If you tell them they cant, they never will. That's why we always tell them they can! We believe in them and look at what they've achieved!

I am so proud of every single one of you!

👏 Luna
👏 Elsie
👏 Aoife
👏 Rosie
👏 Harriet
👏 Ava
👏 Layla

Thank you Miss Spalding for all the work you've put in. Your understanding and patience have allowed these kids to shine!

02/07/2026

This incredible girl is Layla!

Layla doesn't see herself as we do. Myself, miss Helen Spalding, her mum... we all see the incredible journey she's had in getting to this point! We see what an amazing dancer she is!

However Layla is her biggest and harshest critic. So can we all show Layla some love and let her know just how amazing she is, and what an inspirational dancer she is!

02/07/2026

Exam work for Ava, Harriet and Luna! These kids having been working on this for months, they've put so much hard work into this, and I couldn't be any prouder of them!

Here they are working through their exercises and dance routine!

18/06/2026