My love of dance started at a very early age when I began to attend classes in my home town of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.  At the age of thirteen I became a Suffolk County Ballet Scholar.  At sixteen, I auditioned and gained a place at Laine Theatre Arts College in Epsom, Surrey where I trained for three years.  During this time I gained my teaching qualifications with the I.S.T.D. in the genres of Ballet, Tap and Modern.

After graduating from Laine Theatre Arts I did some free-lance teaching for two years.  In 1999 I got the chance to take over The Quay School of Theatre Dance.  It has steadily grown over the past 17 years and we currently hold over fifty classes every week.  

I am always striving to develop my knowledge and skills as a dance teacher and regularly attend courses held by the I.S.T.D.  I get real pleasure out of teaching children to do something that I am so passionate about.

My dancing career started at the tender age of three in Chelmsford. I continued with my classes in ballet, adding modern, tap and national genres as I progressed.

My most formative years were spent under the tuition of Ivy Baker in Clacton - a strict disciplinarian who served on the committee of A.I.S.T.D.

Through Ivy Baker I started my teaching career - firstly in Guernsey, then with a theatre school in Nottingham. This led to a position with a Norwegian dance school, where I danced, choreographed and taught professionally for six years. During that time I worked and danced with the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra, and also set up my own dance studio, carrying out all the teaching myself.

On returning to England to resume teaching here, I spent several years as Ballet Mistress at Oxford House School in Colchester whilst running my own school in Suffolk, before joining The Quay School of Dance several years ago.

I started dancing at the age of three at The Quay School of Theatre Dance in my home town of Sudbury, Suffolk. I continued my dance training here for fifteen years until, on completion of my A Levels, I gained a place at Penny Meekings Teacher Training College in Hertfordshire.

Whilst at college I studied the genres of Ballet, Modern Theatre, Tap and National and was awarded my Certificate in Dance Education.

I am now back where my journey began and hope to inspire children the way my teachers have inspired me.

I trained locally at Hazelwood Dance Studios before being offered a place at the Royal Academy of Dance in London on the BA (Hons) Ballet education course.  This three-year undergraduate degree program combined intensive Ballet training with academic modules and a number of work placements.

After graduating in 2013 I returned to Suffolk as a qualified Ballet teacher and I now run a Ballet School alongside teaching for The Quay School of Dance.