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PRINCIPAL
Myra Mackie
Fellow UKA Ltd
Member GPTD
Registered Care Commission (Scotland)
Registered NNEB
HNC Childcare & Education

Owner of the Myra Mackie School of Dance with 40+ years teaching experience. Fully trained with the UKA in all dance styles taught by the dance school.  Mrs Mackie is qualified in 9 different dance styles and is constantly contacted by younger and less experienced dance teachers throughout Scotland for advice and assistance. 

Mum to Laura and Lesley who also now teach with the dance school. Also co-owns Home From Home Childcare with her husband Max.

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Assistant Principal
Laura Douglas
Fellow UKA Ltd
Bsc HONS and Dip Ed (Dist)
Mrs Douglas started dancing at the age of 2 with the Myra Mackie School of Dance.  She was trained fully by Mrs Mackie (her mum) and has been teaching with the Myra Mackie School of Dance for over 14 years.
She has appeared in the Edinburgh Military Tattoo and on TV.
Mrs Douglas also coaches the Scottish Starlet Cheerleaders - www.scottishstarlets.co.uk who are the competitive cheer dancers with the Myra Mackie School of Dance.

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Assistant Principal

Lesley Mackie
Licentiate UKA Ltd
Registered Care Commission (Scotland)
Registered SNEB
HNC Childcare & Education
PDA Childcare

Daughter of Mrs Mackie and teacher with the dance school for over 10 years. Miss Mackie currently teaches at the Pumpherston branch on a Wednesday.  Also works as the Nursery Manager at Home From Home Childcare. Miss Mackie is a fully qualified Nursery Nurse and is registered with SNEB and the Care Commission (Scotland).  She is also studying at Edinburgh University to develop her childcare qualifications.

Qualified Teachers

Fiona Campbell (Now Mrs Craig)
Licentiate UKA Ltd.

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Miss Campbell also joined the dance school over 20 years ago at the East Calder dance class. She is now one of the higher qualified teaching members assisting whenever we ask - a true godsend knowing pupils are being taught by someone who knows how we operate, the high standard that we expect and is popular with both pupils and parents alike! She has reluctantly given up teaching one evening after work at a local sports centre where her informal dance class was popular with the children.  This was due to extensive work commitments.  In addition to all of this, she has recently taken on the role of Senior Squad leader with the Scottish Starlets Cheerleaders.

Claire Robertson
Associate UKA Ltd.

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Miss Robertson has been a member of the Myra Mackie School of Dance for over 20 years. She is also a qualified dance teacher and after graduating from Edinburgh University, enjoyed her 'gap' year by touring Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and beyond! Miss Robertson kept in touch and sent Mrs Mackie a copy of her travel diary on a regular basis. She has recently returned and taken up the assistant teaching post at Mid Calder on Friday afternoons.

Miss Robertson is also a fully qualified Nursery Nurse and especially enjoys teaching the pre-school dance classes where the emphasis is on fun and enjoyment!  (For both the teaching team and the pupils!)

Laura Scott
Associate UKA Ltd.

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Laura has been dancing with the dance school for over 20 years.  She has also studied dance at Edinburgh's Telford College.  Laura works with Mrs Mackie at the Wednesday class in Pumpherston, the Saturday class in Broxburn and is Assistant Coach at the Cheer classes held on Monday evenings in Pumpherston.  Hopefully this is the first of many professional certificates.  She has achieved the first rung on the ladder but Mrs Mackie intends that she keeps climbing to advanced teacher status!

Update!  Laura was one of the first dancers to sit and pass their semi-professional status within the UKA cheer syllabus devised by Mrs Myra Mackie.  She is now working towards additional qualifications in a variety of dance styles to add to the certificates she proudly gained last year and to date.  About time too!!!

Miss Megan Burnside
Provisional Member UKA Ltd.

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Proudly holding her Provisional Member certificate!

Megan has been teacher training with the dance school and associated Scottish Starlets Cheerleaders (as Youth Squad leader) for 3 years. She recently passed her HND Beauty Therapy at West Lothian College.  Megan is pictured above proudly holding her certificate for the Provisional Members Freestyle examination.  She was one of three candidates from this dance school who also sat and successfully passed her Provisional Members Cheer examination.  Well Done!

- And now to continual work on a number of Associate certifications!!!

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Training Team Members.

Provisional Member UKA Ltd
Leading Senior Trainer

Miss Hollie

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Miss Hollie has recently moved to live in Perth but will continue to train with Mrs Mackie and work with dancers of all ages (under Mrs Mackie's watchful eye!) at the Broxburn classes.

Hollie has been with the dance school since a very young age and is now very high up in the examination award system. She decided at the October 2010 examination centre to apply to the UKA to sit not one but TWO Provisional Members Certificates!  Hollie successfully passed these in the Freestyle branch and the new Cheer semi-professional examination.  It will not be long before she will commence working towards the Associate professional level, (whilst continuing to study her tap, highland and ballet too!!).

A popular pupil wherever she appears - but also a previous Drama Queen of the Month!

Leading Senior Trainer

Miss Vicky

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Miss Vicky has been with the dance school for 9 years and currently studies, Highland & National, Tap & Stage, Freestyle Disco & Hip Hop and Cheer Dance.
In addition to this hectic schedule, she also participates in stage work produced by the Edinburgh Gang Show and has appeared in productions in 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009.
Keen on stage work, Miss Vicky also performed in the Royal High School production of 'We Will Rock You' for the Edinburgh Fringe 2007.

Miss Vicky also excels in choreography and her work has been used for amateur examinations for some of the younger pupils.  A promising teacher of the future!

Trainer

Miss Emma N

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Miss Emma has been assisting Mrs. Douglas at the Monday evening cheer classes held at Pumpherston Institute Hall.  She is 'Mini' squad leader and is an adult competitive squad member.  She also volunteered to help at the various functions held by the Myra Mackie School of Dance.  As a result of her enthusiasm and initiative she has been invited to join the teaching team so that she can expand her dance knowledge and skills whilst assisting younger members.

Senior Trainer

Miss Nicola

Miss Nicola has returned to the Mid Calder branch where she once attended as a 2 year old at our pre-school class!

Nicola has just completed her 6th year at high school where, in addition to her studies, also successfully completed her Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh Awards.  She is currently working on her Gold level.  In addition to this, she has passed her first aid examination - nice to know should we encounter an emergency!  Nicola is going to study Engineering at Heriot Watt University commencing in September 2011.

Miss Nicola is a talented tap and freestyle disco dancer and is towards the end of her amateur examination requirements.  Her choreography within the tap branch was showcased at the dance display by the younger primary pupils.  A dance which was simple, cute and highly popular with the dancers.  Hopefully she will continue with the dance school to achieve her semi-professional status.

Senior Trainer

Miss Sarah S

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Sarah was a pre-school trainer for the dance school and who has recently been promoted to teacher trainer.  She has now commenced working with primary pupils alongside leading senior trainer Miss Hollie and other colleagues.  She will be working with dancers at the Pumpherston branch as well as at the Saturday classes in Broxburn.

Sarah gives the appearance that she is a quiet, shy and somewhat innocent young lady however, the senior members of the teaching team know different! - Especially Mrs Douglas who has the 'pleasure' of teaching her on Mondays and Mrs Mackie who works alongside Miss Scott on Saturdays! 

She has successfully embraced choreography and her cheer work was showcased at the dance display held in March 2011.

Sarah is also a junior competitive cheer squad member (Scottish Starlets).

She is also currently working on SQA Dance with the dance school to gain further qualifications.

Trainer

Miss Kirsten

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Kirsten has joined the teaching team recently and has been working with dancers of all ages and abilities at the Broxburn branch.  She concentrates solely on Freestyle Disco and her choreography, although in its early days, is proving popular with the dancers.  With continuing development, Kirsten should approach semi-professional level without too much difficulty.

Trainer

Miss Sarah M

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Miss Sarah M joined our teaching team for the season commencing August 2010.  She has regularly attended Tap, Freestyle Disco, Cheer and Highland classes since she was 3 years of age.  Sarah will be working at the Mid Calder Classes with the pupils who are learning tap, freestyle disco  & highland.  She is a constant reminder to Mrs Mackie that time does pass all too quickly - meeting Sarah when she was 3 years old at the school nursery that Mrs Mackie was working at - she is now 17!  Where did the time go?

Team Helper

Miss Samantha

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Miss Samantha is an energetic and enthusiastic dancer who is keen to assist at the dance school.  She will be attending the Broxburn Scout Hall classes on Saturday mornings with the cheer, freestyle disco and tap classes. 

Samantha also studies highland dancing on Wednesday evenings at the Pumpherston branch and is a junior competitive squad member (Scottish Starlets).

She is currently studying SQA Dance with the dance school too!  A busy girl!

Team Helper

Miss Reine

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Well, what can we say about our Reine?!  She may be one of the youngest members of the teaching team but her talent, enthusiasm, energy, cheeky smile and joy of dance is transparent to all.  Miss Reine will be assisting at the Pumpherston Pre-school dance class, Primary Tap & Stage as well as the Primary Freestyle Disco classes on Wednesday afternoons and is keen to learn choreography that can be taught to these age groups too.  She is sure to be popular with the youngsters!   Miss Reine choreographed one of the two pre-school dances which was performed at the dance display in March 2011.  She is also studying SQA Dance with the dance school.  Where does she find the time, energy, enthusiasm ?.........

Reine studies tap & stage, freestyle disco, highland and is also a junior competitive squad member (Scottish Starlets) and loves her cheer dancing!


Team Helper

Miss Emily

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After a short settling in period at the Mid Calder branch prior to the summer holiday break, Miss Emily will now become more involved assisting with the Pre-school Dancers & Primary pupils.  She studies tap & stage, freestyle disco & hip hop as well as cheer dance.  Emily has also embarked on the SQA Dance course for the season 2011 - 2012.  Miss Emily is a welcome addition to the team and we hope that she will remain so over the next few years developing her own dance skills and becoming an experienced assistant working towards her semi-professional and professional levels in the future.



Team Helper

Miss Eilidh

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Miss Eilidh joined the teaching team for a short settling in period and will join Miss Emily assisting with the Pre-school pupils and Primary dancers.  She studies Tap & Stage, Freestyle Disco & Hip Hop as well as Cheer Dance.  It is hoped that Eilidh will remain with the team over the forthcoming years progressing with her own dance development and assisting with teaching the younger dancers. 

Mrs Mackie & Miss Robertson look forward to nurturing our two newest teaching team members who will both be at the Mid Calder branch.  Welcome on board girls!

Your Dance Career Starts Here!

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Registered Office Address
 
Myra Mackie School of Dance
47 Erskine Place
Pumpherston
Livingston
West Lothian
EH53 0LU

Tel: 01506 881555
email: myra.mackie@blueyonder.co.uk

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