A TEACHER at Warrington’s Priestley College has been rewarded for her dedication and excellence in dance education.
Jo Novoa Bradley has received a Rambert Grades Examination Award after her cohort’s success last year which saw Priestley become the highest-performing centre in the North of England for the qualification.
She was praised for her “outstanding achievement”, which was down to her “hard work and dedication to excellence”.
Jo said: “It’s exciting for me to be recognised in this way, but I am genuinely just so proud of what our students achieved.”
Rambert Grades is an internationally-renowned company that introduced contemporary dance to the UK.
Priestley started delivering their qualification as an extracurricular specialism last year after dance tutor Rachel Edgington saw it as an opportunity to keep the college’s dancers one step ahead of their peers around the country.
It was a move worth making as the students excelled under Jo’s guidance in Priestley’s Oxygen Dance Company.
In a letter to Jo announcing her award, Rambert’s Head of Education and Examinations, Hannah Kidd, said: “We are grateful for your commitment, perseverance and diligence to your students’ progress and for the benchmark you have set for others.
“As a teacher you play an integral and transformative role in a student’s life, and we feel this is the perfect way to celebrate the remarkable milestones achieved in your recent examinations.
“Thank you for being an inspirational member of not only our teaching community, but to the entire dance community.”
