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  1. Farawaydancer
    My dd is still waiting for a congratulations from her teacher nearly two years after she got her ‘yes’ letter! We see her all the time but she’s never been able to bring herself to say well done and it’s never been publicly acknowledged within the dance school.
  2. Farawaydancer
    Elmhurst have changed their assessment system completely in the last 18 months, and it’s a definite commitment to offer five years now, unless there are very major issues such as very long term injury.
  3. Farawaydancer
    However, not assessing out gives time to those who are ‘slow burners’ like my ds. Not all children develop at the same rate. Each school is very different, if you’re lucky enough to have a choice you really just have to go with the one you feel will be right for your child.
  4. Farawaydancer
    And then there’s the mysterious ‘miscellaneous’ items that are added each term, that no one ever explains! 🤣
  5. Farawaydancer
    Thank you, it sounds like a complete nightmare tbh! I’m really not looking forward to it.
  6. Farawaydancer
    How easy/difficult is it for U.K. dancers to get US visas? Slowly realising graduation is on the horizon in the next two years and I know nothing about all of this! 🤦🏼‍♀️
  7. Farawaydancer
    Yes, who knows is quite right. I can’t work it out so I’ve stopped trying. Luckily my two have been on the right end of the decisions but I still don’t understand them sometimes.
  8. Farawaydancer
    It’s impossible to second guess what will happen. My ds didn’t start until he was 8, three classes a week when he auditioned at 10 and got an mds from one and no finals anywhere else! Dd has an mds at her school but looking at her classmates I see few reasons why some of them got funding and others didn’t.
  9. Farawaydancer
    Might be worth contacting NIDMS and asking their advice about next steps?
  10. Farawaydancer
    Hammond’s funding finals didn’t require the solo again. It was a ballet class, a creative movement class and a musical theatre workshop. If it’s not in person this year this might change of course.
  11. Farawaydancer
    Sorry, I don’t have any insider information from the current year 11 group 🤣
  12. Farawaydancer
    Once you’ve filled in the form and sent the £150 then they will assume that you are going unless you tell them otherwise after the funding audition. Every year there are lots that drop out at that point due to lack of funding. The number of mds places varies year to year; when my dd auditioned there are only 8 and they weren’t all given to the incoming y7s, one went to a y8. In the current year 7 there were about 13. The number available is determined by how many mds pupils there are leaving that year, as they ‘recycle’ them to the new year group joining.
  13. Farawaydancer
    This is something I’ve been so careful to tell our two dc, I would hate for them to think that they had to continue because they owed us something. At times I have also needed to remind their teachers of this too, that it is just school, albeit a very different sort of school! Your dd is amazing, and will be fabulous in her newly chosen career. I wish her all the luck in the world.
  14. Farawaydancer
    It is income - all income, pre tax and deductions - but not other assets. The calculator is fairly accurate.
  15. Farawaydancer
    It’s worth asking if they’re wildly out but from my experience of looking at lots of students marks at our school, vocational grades bear no relation to any grade exam they might have done before. They’re almost always lower. And I’ve heard the same from other schools too.
  16. Farawaydancer
    Yes, so long as you meet the residency criteria.
  17. Farawaydancer
    We had this issue last year, although not for MT. We replied to the offer saying thank you very much but we’re not in a position to accept any offers as yet due to the long audition season this year, and said no more than that. They kept the offers open without us having to explicitly ask them to do so.
  18. Farawaydancer
    “organised indoor sport, physical activity and exercise classes will only be permitted if it is possible for people to avoid mixing with people they do not live with (or share a support bubble with). There are exceptions for indoor disability sport, sport for educational purposes and supervised sport and physical activity for under-18s, which can take place with larger groups mixing” Depends on your definition of “mixing with” I guess? 🤷🏼‍♀️
  19. Farawaydancer
    They’re looking for potential so don’t worry about it too much. My boy couldn’t do any splits comfortably at 11 and got an mds place. He got a number of upper school offers last year and still can’t do box splits!
  20. Farawaydancer
    I agree completely with all of this, also with current experience.
  21. Farawaydancer
    Yes to all of this, funding plays a huge part in decision making, and I think there is also an element of after having been there for five years, some want to try a different environment for their US training.
  22. Farawaydancer
    I have two dc at different schools. There is definitely a different ‘type’ of pupil at each one. Not just physique but personality type too.
  23. Farawaydancer
    My ds has dyslexia and sensory processing differences, which bring lots of executive functioning challenges for him in the studio and the classroom. He has been at vocational school since he was 11. He has struggled with the teaching style of some dance teachers but in general school have been really supportive and understanding. The needs won’t go away and if someone is going to be successful in dance then they need to work out strategies that work for them in the studio. Teachers have always been willing to work with him on this, once they know what the needs are. Academically, school made lots of the needed reasonable adjustments and he did extremely well in his gcses last year. These have continued into upper school and staff have been nothing but supportive.
  24. Farawaydancer
    https://www.royalballetschool.org.uk/information/venue-hire/
  25. Farawaydancer
    I shouldn’t think so since they are educational establishments and as such they should be able to run their usual curriculum, in line with their own risk assessments of course.
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