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  1. On 10/07/2019 at 20:07, funnybunny said:
    I know I'm a newbie with no posts behind my belt and a crappy avatar and a post that doesn't quite belong here. But I'm desperate looking for an outfit for my Annie (7). She's really
    slim and is really anxious. It's her first competition, so I want to boost her spirits any way I can. I'm thinking about custom tailoring (on a budget though). Has anybody ever ordered such a thing online? Found this one: https://rg-leotard.com/artistic_gymnastics/artistic_leotards. They say they're all custom made, but I'd like to hear some customer reviews. Tried looking for an outfit locally, but we recently moved so I'm not quite acclimatized to Houston yet. Sorry again.

    Hi @funnybunny this is a UK site so forum members may not have much knowledge on US products. This forum may be more useful

    https://dancers.invisionzone.com

     

    Good luck!

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  2. I'm so sorry to hear this ballet bun, how awful for all of you.

     

    I would agree that escalating to Head of Pastoral or School Head is the next step.

     

    Our experiences were that:

     

    1) there was a huge difference in competence between different house parents in terms of skills at dealing with such issues

     

    2) if any issues (pastoral or dance) were not dealt with satisfactorily then escalating to Head was only way to get it dealt with.

     

    3) Agree there is often poor communication between pastoral, dance and academic.

     

    If you think bullying is happening do you have a copy of the school policy?

     

    Are there any room allocations that may help for next year?

     

    Wishing you all the best xxx

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  3. If your DD may wish to apply to ballet schools for Y7 I would go for Elmhurst. (All things being equal). That is no comment on the teaching on either scheme but it may benefit an Elmhurst application.

    Having said that admission to vocational school is made pretty much on what is seen at audition so the chance to shine is still there even if you choose the other Associates.

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  4. My DD policy is £41 pm with AXA and was cheaper than we paid as part of school policy in past. Unfortunately we don't have cover to add her to.

     

    You can get cheaper but consider carefully whether cheaper options are worthwhile. Some cheaper options I would avoid are

     

    Limited numbers of physio sessions

     

    A limited list of Drs/hospitals you can use

     

    Any policy which only kicks in if you're not seen in a particular length of time by NHS

     

    Make sure all investigations are included as well as outpatient and inpatient care.

     

    No limit on claims

     

    Include psychiatric care

     

    HTH

  5. Definitely Year 11. I think Arucaria's advice is spot on. Despite doing this we still found Year 11 very stressful.

     

    I don't think being at vocational school helped due to the lack of supervision compared to being at home. Same place as Picture's DD and they missed lots of dancing in Y11 which was not beneficial and led to loss of fitness and anxiety about lack of dancing.

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  6. @Diva05 I can only comment on Hammond - they consider all offered a place (any year) for the available MDSs. My DD had one for Y10 start and she wasn't the only one. Hammond also has other funding available.

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