Bluebird22

Fantastic feedback from the young lady I know who attended! Thoroughly enjoyed the homestay and the sneak peak I saw was of a very high standard.

I took on a lot of IDTA students about 7 years back and swapped them to bbo has to take them back 2 grades. I’ve only ever taught the adv2 IDTA and I would say it’s the same standard as bbo inter found. Not necessarily a bad thing as very few (if any!) manage to take the bbo adv 2. There is a massive amount of set syllabus content with bbo whereas IDTA places a greater emphasis on freework and more vocabulary in each exercise, bbo will do separate exercises for tendu, plie, glisse whereas that could be one exercise in IDTA.

I have signed verified and shared. I teach a child with autism, epilepsy and other additional needs, so your story hit particularly close to home. I think wider training and acceptance is needed across society as a whole. I send my sincere condolences to you and your family and hope that through your work and this petition Oliver can bring about change for others.

I took GCSE dance outside of school as an additional to the ones I took inside of school. However I took my dance and RE gcse in year 10 which freed up time in year 11. It was certainly possible 10years ago but the kids I teach now seem under so much more pressure than I was!

My mum sprayed my Bloch suprimas with plasti-cote. She stuffed the shoe with newspaper. They actually outlasted my non sprayed pair, maybe we just got lucky. Everyone else in my class used a marker pen. I was looking recently for red ones and we found pointe shoe covers in a variety of colours online might be a better option?

I was nominated years back for the IDTA modern awards not sure how the ballet awards differs.. but we took part in a class with all the other nominees then we each performed a 30second solo then the awards were dished out. Everyone got a certificate, all in all it was a nice day out!

Graham Fletcher in Leicester is excellent particularly for boys- he has a mixed group and also additional male only classes. He auditions in September and groups them more by ability although he roughly applies an age to each group.

One of mine auditioned in Birmingham this year, I’d say she was very royal physique wise but when I’ve seen pictures of some of the new year 4s on facebook, my little student looks a good 2 years younger and although the other kids aren’t big at all (tiny skinny things) they dwarf the little girl I sent.

I would say I work for a large school but class sizes vary- approx 500 students, 19 teachers, 7 studios over 4 venues. Biggest class size 20 ish smallest 2-3. Vocational grades range from classes of 3-15. Although a lot tend to stay with the same cohort all the way through, with a fair few opting out of exams around age 13 if they decide they just want to keep up classes for fun.

Aww congratulations! Really looking forward to watching!

Last year the boy I teach got the letter you have just described, this year he got a place. One of the girls I teach was a RBS JA got SWL for Mids in year 7 then that letter when she applied again for year 8.

Fingers and toes crossed for your dd!

83 juniors and they were aiming to take about 45

32 he will be year 5 in September. My other Birmingham JA is 24 weeks also heading into year 5

Wow that is a lot! There were 52 seniors last night - but I’m sure the amount they take depends on the venue. Buxton doesn’t have a very big stage so I’m sure I remember being told previously that the cast is smaller at Buxton than our local venue in Stoke.

I’ve just cried as his mum told me!

Well, after a crushing no thank you this time last year, my boy student with the gorgeous legs, gorgeous feet and sparkling personality has got a yes! Please don’t be disheartened with a no and listen to your teachers that you see every week, because a panel of 4 people who see hundreds of kids over the course of a day, can’t be relied on to always make the best decisions!

My senior got through to the scholarship part again but lost out! Second time she’s lost out and both times to brunettes!!

I’m not sure I don’t know her personally, just something I saw on Facebook!

My Junior has just been in touch- she has a place! Audition comprised of Ports de Bras, pirouettes, plies and leaps amongst other things!

Where is Birmingham?!?! The wait is torture- particularly when I know one lady has heard from Birmingham!

The BBO insist on child safeguarding and also there is a maximum amount of hours you can claim you have undertaken independently. I think 12hours have to be undertaken via one of the courses the BBO approve and the final 6 hours you can undertake independently.

I have one junior going this evening so will check in with her later this evening and let you know. If I remember rightly from last time the entire class was in the centre and there is a set step they had to demonstrate for the scholarship bit, I remember a Waltz definitely being mentioned.

I have 2 students auditioning this evening. One very determined senior who narrowly missed out on the scholarship last time! Good luck to your DD hope the result comes through quickly for you!

This is all too often the case- it’s a major pet peeve of mine. My teacher training has cost me a fortune and dancers/vocational graduates/one time performers are all too often invited to teach (at premium rates), they have no teaching qualifications, no association membership and they simply aren’t regulated. Just because you can dance doesn’t mean you can teach- my mum can drive a car but when the one time she attempted to teach me to drive was an absolute disaster, because while she has the necessary skills she is not a teacher!