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Lucy Quick - Principal of Perform

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13th September 2018

Actors are the most resourceful people I know

As somebody who has worked with actors for over 20 years, I very rarely meet one who isn’t incredibly motivated, eager and keen to work in their chosen profession or in other fields. I suppose…

Tags: training, education, actors, performers, dancers, resourceful, Glenda Jackson, soft skills, adaptable

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7th October 2017

Finding the Best - How We Recruit Perform Teachers

When Perform parents feed back to me about our teachers,  they consistently use the same vocabulary to describe them. 'Nurturing', 'energetic', 'inspiring', 'amazing'…

Tags: training, drama teachers, Perform teaching, producers, working with kids

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4th April 2012

Holiday - what holiday?!

It's the Easter holidays and I'm often asked if this is a nice quiet time for me at Perform. Well, it's definitely quiet in the sense that we only have our holiday workshops running and not…

Tags: child development, drama, dance and singing, children, confidence, concentration, business, half term, Activities, teachers, training, fun, easter holidays

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10th March 2012

Hello - helping children develop good communication skills

If you read my blogs regularly, you'll know that I like to talk about communication skills and how important it is that we make children confident communicators from an early age. As you might expect,…

Tags: child development, drama, dance and singing, Toddlers, children, Games, behaviour, parenting, singing, confidence, concentration, Activities, training, parents, success, vocal, fun

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13th July 2011

The P Factor

On January 8th 2000, I opened my first Perform class. Me, a teacher and four children. It went pretty well - all things considered. But, afterwards, when I was talking to the parents about my plans to…

Tags: child development, drama, dance and singing, children, business, Jobs, Activities, teachers, training, Running a business, success, recruitment, p factor

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27th August 2010

Teaching the Teachers

Wow - it's been yet another hectic week! No rest for the wicked, eh? This week I've been working hard with our Regional Partner Simon Fielding on developing a new series of training courses for…

Tags: business, teaching, teachers, training, development

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