Bothballet Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 (edited) Congratulations to you and you dd @Ms Sunshine!!! Edited March 23, 2019 by Bothballet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tutugirl Posted March 23, 2019 Share Posted March 23, 2019 Tring results are out . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiaramum Posted March 25, 2019 Share Posted March 25, 2019 Does anyone have a clue as to when term information/financial info etc gets issued from RBS for WL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuditionIngenu Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 Dear All. Does anyone know if Elmhurst has a waiting list for Year 7 entrance Sept 2019?  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farawaydancer Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 3 hours ago, AuditionIngenu said: Dear All. Does anyone know if Elmhurst has a waiting list for Year 7 entrance Sept 2019?   They usually have a ‘reserve pool’ not strictly a list. If places become available they meet up and discuss who to give the places to. They said in the last that it depends on things like beds and class numbers too which is why it’s not a strict list. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tutugirl Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 I thought your DD was going to Elmhurst AuditionIngenu ? Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuditionIngenu Posted April 28, 2019 Share Posted April 28, 2019 She is. But a friend’s daughter didn’t get an offer and I was wondering if there might be any future movement or openings for her. X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JayJay Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Wonder if they do it straight away, but my son declined y7 Elmhurst place so that would have been 1 freed up.... not sure that helps to know.. x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anon2 Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 With Elmhurst they will look at bed availability. A boy turning down a place will mean he frees a boys bed (unless was a day pupil). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuditionIngenu Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 Thank you everyone for your responses. Really helpful. Gives some idea of scope and potential movement. X Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SissonneDoublee Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 (edited) I gather that there was no reserve pool last year, as they re-opened the audition process in early May and held an additional ‘finals’ of sorts. I think students would have been told if they were in a reserve pool, so a straight ‘no’ would be unlikely to yield a place, although I might be wrong. I think the additional round had already been advertised by this time last year, though. A lot can happen in a year, though, and it is definitely worth trying again for Year 8. Edited April 29, 2019 by SissonneDoublee Typo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AuditionIngenu Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 I know. Thank you Sissonedoublee. I want to give my friend as much encouragement as possible to keep going. She’s stronger than I would have been had my DD not had an offer and so she is an inspiration. As indeed are many of you. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pointytoes Posted April 29, 2019 Share Posted April 29, 2019 It is also worth knowing that a few of the places gained by the second round of auditions last year had previously been given a no, so as already stated anything is possible! Best wishes to your steadfast friend! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdageKitty Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Hi everyone! I have a question regarding the MDS. I'm currently in two minds regarding whether I would like for my DD to board. We live not too far away from Tring so being a day student is definitely an option. If DD gets offered an MDS boarding place, is it possible to change your mind during acceptance and become a day pupil? Also, should circumstances change in the following year and DD decides to board, would the MDS fund a boarding place if a bed is available? This is for Year 7 so we'll be auditioning next year. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen51 Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 If you don’t live far away, I would suggest being a day pupil. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farawaydancer Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 14 minutes ago, Jen51 said: If you don’t live far away, I would suggest being a day pupil.  Absolutely this. I have one DC already boarding and another about to go. We live far too far from either school for them to be day pupils but this is what I would have chosen had we lived nearer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen51 Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Boarding is tough so if you live nearby I would definitely do that! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdageKitty Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 By "not too far" I meant we're not really that close either. It's about 20 miles and given how early they tend to start it will probably take a lot of adjustment at the beginning (also with regards to how I will juggle it with work!). Truth be told, 20 miles is nothing in terms of how long it would take to get there (max 40 mins drive) vs for example WL which is only 12 miles but would take twice as long to get to! But this is more to do with the question of how the MDS could be used and whether it can be offered for either (should there be beds available of course). Same for Elmhurst or Hammond for example. Should DD be offered a place, we could move to Birmingham or Chester for the 1st year, and for Year 8 move back to London and let DD board - is that an option at all?  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farawaydancer Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 I’m not sure with the mds if they let you switch from a day place to a boarding place (if there is one available). You can definitely decide at the outset to be a day pupil. At 20 miles I would make being a day pupil work. For comparison we are 180-200 miles from our dc’s schools. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dancing unicorn Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 Will send you a pm 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby Foo Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 2 hours ago, AdageKitty said: By "not too far" I meant we're not really that close either. It's about 20 miles and given how early they tend to start it will probably take a lot of adjustment at the beginning (also with regards to how I will juggle it with work!). Truth be told, 20 miles is nothing in terms of how long it would take to get there (max 40 mins drive) vs for example WL which is only 12 miles but would take twice as long to get to! But this is more to do with the question of how the MDS could be used and whether it can be offered for either (should there be beds available of course). Same for Elmhurst or Hammond for example. Should DD be offered a place, we could move to Birmingham or Chester for the 1st year, and for Year 8 move back to London and let DD board - is that an option at all?  Yes, it’s definitely an option! You can change about with a mds at the end of a school year as long as you give plenty notice ( a term at least). My Dd had an mds and chose to be a day pupil. We were told that it was fine to change our mind. Tring is a great school to be a day pupil as there are around 65 or more day pupils ( dance and mt) so plenty of people to hang out with. Because there is such a large number of day pupils, they are catered for very well with their own house parent and changing facilities. Correspondence from the school always includes special circumstances for day pupils should it be appropriate ( eg timetable and pick ups) which is more than can be said for other vocational schools!! The downside is that day pupils are kept separate from boarders when they are not in classes ( academic or vocational) which can feel a bit weird. Everyone is different in what suits them but being able to talk to my child every night ( car journeys are great for this) and for them to unwind, have a quiet bath and offload in their own time (without the pressurised ‘phone call home’) was valuable, as was providing a nutritious diet! I guess travelling becomes more of an issue in yes 10 and 11 with the work involved in GCSE’s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahw Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 My understanding is that if you are awarded an MDS you can choose to use it either way. However, in Tring's case it does often seem to be short of boarding spaces so probably better to apply for boarding and then change to day at Tring in particular. Â Regarding whether to be day or not; it's an overall balance for any family - issues such as your job, siblings, costs, other responsibilities, child's preference allow to be taken into account. Personally i think 80 miles daily driving plus a job for you is a lot. You would need to do Saturdays as well. Weekly boarding may work? Â Other issues - these are essentially boarding schools and non boarders can feel a bit left out sometimes. I don't know proportion of day pupils at Tring. A lot of travel on daily basis is exhausting for child on top of dance and school schedule. Â A lot to think about.... But personally I wouldn't worry too much about it until you (hopefully) have offers and know what your options are. Tring usually has the fewest number of MDS available out of all the schools. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdageKitty Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 I didn't know that weekly boarding an option?? Is this just at Tring or other vocational school too? Thank you so much, lots of helpful advice from all you wonderful ballet parents Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahw Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 I don't know if it's formally available but you could take her home every Saturday lunchtime once dancing finished... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby Foo Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 About a third of pupils at Tring are day pupils but as sarahw points out, boarding places are in great demand as are mds’s. It is possible to be a weekly boarder. Classes on a Saturday start in yr 9. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahw Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 This is a guess but I suspect a higher proportion of dancers might be boarders? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruby Foo Posted May 17, 2019 Share Posted May 17, 2019 51 minutes ago, sarahw said: This is a guess but I suspect a higher proportion of dancers might be boarders? Yes, definitely more MTs are day students than dancers but not sure how numbers of dancers compare to MT students overall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally-Anne Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 This is a really long thread so apologies for not reading all 40 pages! But, apart from RBS which other schools offer full time dance training from year 7? My daughter is at the end of year 5 and is currently working on something with studio Wayne McGregor. They have suggested she could go full time at 11, but I’m a bit lost as to the options, as RBS seems a long shot at best! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meadowblythe Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019  It depends on whether you need MDS (means tested) funding or not. If you would need an MDS there are four schools Elmhurst, Hammond, RBS, Tring. If you can the training fund then you have more options. Different schools will suit different students. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sally-Anne Posted May 28, 2019 Share Posted May 28, 2019 Thank you meadowblythe, we would need funding I think, so I will  look at those options for now 😊 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meglorien Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 On 28/05/2019 at 18:38, Sally-Anne said: This is a really long thread so apologies for not reading all 40 pages! But, apart from RBS which other schools offer full time dance training from year 7? My daughter is at the end of year 5 and is currently working on something with studio Wayne McGregor. They have suggested she could go full time at 11, but I’m a bit lost as to the options, as RBS seems a long shot at best! I'm interested in this too. We know about RBS, Elmhurst, Tring and Legate (if the new dance director is more ballet oriented than the outgoing one). I'm not quite sure what is happening at Hammond at the moment and we decided against Young Dancers Academy. Are there any others we should be thinking of? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farawaydancer Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 1 hour ago, Meglorien said: I'm interested in this too. We know about RBS, Elmhurst, Tring and Legate (if the new dance director is more ballet oriented than the outgoing one). I'm not quite sure what is happening at Hammond at the moment and we decided against Young Dancers Academy. Are there any others we should be thinking of?  There’s Moorlands too. What aren’t you sure about at Hammond?  If you need MDS funding then it should be considered alongside the other three schools which have mds too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meglorien Posted August 3, 2019 Share Posted August 3, 2019 2 hours ago, Farawaydancer said:  There’s Moorlands too. What aren’t you sure about at Hammond?  If you need MDS funding then it should be considered alongside the other three schools which have mds too. I was told this weekend that there was some sort of closure, and that they focus more on contemporary than in classical ballet. I'll read through the thread to see what people say about the various school before asking more questions 😉 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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