Shake It Up aims to raise attainment for over 2000 primary school children, from 14 schools, in four areas of deprivation, over a four year programme.
Working in close partnership with teachers to plan and deliver the programme, two professional dance workers each work for a day a week in a primary school, using dance to teach a range of academic subjects. This enables children to learn through dance and leave a suitable legacy of teachers with the skills and knowledge to continue to develop this kind of integrated curricular delivery.
The project will take place in four local authority areas which are part of the Scottish Government's Attainment Challenge, and run in conjunction with Challenge Attainment Officers. In 2017 – 2018, Shake It Up will take place in Glasgow and North Lanarkshire, and West Dunbartonshire and Clackmannanshire in 2019 – 2020.
YDance will receive funding from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation to run Shake It Up. The project has also received funding from the Garfield Weston Foundation.