Who needs Joe Wicks when Ashby's Woodcote Primary School has Miss Longmore?

While the country is working out with celebrity instructors online, the Willowbrook Close-based school has its own version.

Maddy Longmore is the school ELSA (Emotional Literacy Support Assistant) and it is her job to look after the mental well-being of Woodcote's pupils.

And she was keen to maintain that contact with the children during the current Coronavirus crisis which has shut down schools all over the country.

So she turned to her other skills as a dancer - Maddy has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall and Disneyland Paris.

And, for the school's Facebook page, she put together a yoga video and an aerobic 'Funky Friday' dance version - which you can view at the top of this page.

It is designed not only to keep the pupils active, but also to keep their spirits up at a time when they are not seeing their friends or teachers.

Maddy - whose dog Mabel even gets to appear on one of the clips - explained: "We were mainly concerned about the pupils' mental well-being, we wanted to make sure we had a way of being in contact with them - just to keep the morale up, we know that for some of them this is a really difficult time.

"They're not seeing any familiar faces at the moment either.

"So we just thought, we can have a bit of a giggle and give them something to do each week. Something that isn't school work related.

"We thought that'd be really good for them and their well-being.

"But all the staff have been doing an amazing job at keeping school going, delivering school meals to children at home and remaining open over Easter for our key workers."

Maddy explained her role at Woodcote Primary.

She said: "I was employed by the school to deliver mental well-being intervention for the children.

"My role every day is to support their well-being anyway. But right now it's really important for me to carry on doing those things can if I can.

"I'm at the school all day, every day, doing this. I have a special room and I spend about half an hour on with each child, I see 33 children on a one to one basis.

"We do all sorts to boost their self-confidence and help them express their emotions.

"The children get a special programme that we deliver over a number of weeks, and at the end they've hopefully achieved a little target, even if it's to say three things that they are really good at, and it's really nice for them."

It means the video clips are quite a departure from her day job - but she is no stranger to the world of dance.

She said: "I did dance for 16 years and then taught for a couple of years as well.

"I've always enjoyed that side of things anyway. I've been dancing since I was two. I did all sorts of dance, every sort of genre, I've danced at the Royal Albert Hall in London, I've danced at Disneyland Paris, we did all sorts, it was brilliant. That was with a local dance and drama school at Stoke Golding.

"I've only been at Woocote since January, what's important is that even though I'm not physically with the children, we are seeing each other virtually on-screen.

"We've had some messages back from the parents and some videos of children joining in at home, that's been really lovely.

"Yoga will be once a week, then after Easter, the school are doing some virtual teaching through the website as well.

"There'll be more virtual content for the children to come. The children will get challenges of work each week, and get rewards for the different activities they engage with at home. We can communicate with them that way.

"Maybe I'll only do the Friday sessions every couple of weeks so the novelty doesn't wear off - it all depends on how many different costumes I've got"