Teachers

Verity started her training at the age of two and a half when her mother sent her to ballet lessons due to a bone growth defect in her foot. She instantly fell in love with dance and soon was enjoying most forms of dance lesson at Frogmore Dance School.

At the age of five, she started singing lessons at the YEM theatre school.

By the time she was eight, she had won first place at many dance festivals and had appeared in many pantomimes and shows, including performing at the London Palladium and working with George May. It was at this age that Verity was awarded a Saturday scholarship to the Sylvia Young Theatre School. She continued to train at these three schools, and perform in countless productions until she was sixteen, when she was awarded a DaDa scholarship to attend

Laine Theatre Arts in Epsom.

Verity graduated Laine Theatre Arts in 2007 with a Level 6 National Diploma

in Musical Theatre.

Since graduating from dance college, Verity has gone on to perform in the West End, Tour the UK, appear in both TV series and Commercials and cruise the world as a Lead Production Vocalist for Holland America Cruise Line and Stiletto Entertainment.

Upon returning to the UK, Verity then turned her focus to passing on her skills and passion to the next generation, returning to her roots at

Frogmore Dance School.

Verity holds her associates with the IDTA in Modern and Tap and a level 4 Teaching Diploma in Freestyle. Verity also holds a Musical Theatre Associate with the London College of Music, as well as her Foundation in Dance Instruction (FDI) in Modern dance and her Diploma in Dance Education (DDE) in Tap dance with the ISTD.

Verity enjoys being a Radio Presenter and Podcaster along side her teaching.

She presents for B Radio Hampshire & Surrey, B Radio Berkshire,

and has a podcast cast called Lady and the Crank with her best friend Donna.

Erin Started her dance training at Frogmore Dance School and completed her first teacher qualification with us for the IDTA in Freestyle.

Erin holds her Level 0 and Level 1 in women’s artistic gymnastics coaching with British Gymnastics and coaches for Aspire Gymnastics.

Erin is currently studying for her Diploma in Dance Education (DDE) in Modern dance with the ISTD at the Linda Sweetzer Teacher Training College in Maidenhead

Katie started her dancing journey at aged 4 at a local dance school. She quickly fell in love with everything to do with the arts and did her first theatre production aged 9. She started her training at Frogmore Dance School aged 11 and trained with Miss Verity until she was 18. Katie studied a level 3 diploma in Performing Arts at college where she gained two Distinctions.

Katie began teaching Singing, Dance, and Musical theatre at a local theatre school in 2021 and her love for sharing her passion with the next generation has only grown since then. Since starting her teaching journey, Katie has taught at multiple local dance and theatre schools, primary schools and after-school clubs.

In December 2023 Katie took a break from teaching to pursue her acting career. After making her professional acting debut in a family-focused immersive theatre experience, she decided that her love for teaching far outshone the tricky world of professional theatre, and completely turned her focus to sharing her knowledge and passion with the next generation of young performers.

In January 2024, Katie gained a distinction in her IDTA Freestyle Associate exam with Frogmore Dance School. She is beyond excited to return to her home school, to further her teaching experience and inspire the next generation of young dancers

Steph started in the performing arts world at the late age of 14, finding her passion in this art form. Since then, she has completed advanced vocational exams in RAD Ballet, Tap, and Modern, and also LAMDA exams in drama. 

Steph is currently training with the ISTD for her Diploma in Dance Education (DDE.)      Steph would love to qualify further in the future with other exam boards, gain more experience, and achieve further goals. Steph is also qualified in Acrobatic Arts.

Miss Steph teaches RAD ballet regularly to many children. She loves working with all age ranges in all genres and aims to see the creativity and passion towards dance and performing arts in students as they grow.

Miss Steph is very excited to be joining the Frogmore Dance School team. 

Tegan grew up dancing at Frogmore Dance School under the guidance of Judy Davies, Laura Remnant and Verity Hammersley.

Upon leaving FDS, Tegan completed a Foundation Vocational year at Birds College,      Conservatoire for Dance and Musical Theatre in 2024 after Frogmore Dance School fundraised for the college tuition fee's with #SendTeganToDanceCollege.

Looking to further her vocational training, Tegan received an on the day offer for BA (Hons) Musical Theatre course at Performers College, Essex, an offer for National Diploma in Musical Theatre at Laine Theatre Arts and an offer for the BA (Hons) Musical theatre course at Birds College, Conservatoire for Dance and Musical Theatre.

Tegan enjoys passing on her passion for dance and performing, to the younger genertion of Frogmore students and is thrilled to be a guest teacher at the school.