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cristalle

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  1. Possibly because Hammond has a smaller percentage of dancers (they are mostly a Musical theatre school), so more of a smaller number of total dancers at Hammond, and Tring allows the dancers to take MDS to 6th form and there are about 80 in the 6th form.
  2. The number of MDS places at each school has been misquoted; there are 46 places at Tring. This is 1% less than Hammond. Unusually, Tring does allow students to take their MDS to 6th form as they support the talented students who could not otherwise afford the DADA's, which is a less generous scheme. Tring has a lot of ballet students, well over 150, and if 46 of those are MDS funded, then that is nearly one third.
  3. Tring has an Open day on 27th June
  4. To be clear, Tring does assess out and MDS funding and DADA funding IS removed if students do not make appropriate progress. This is in line with other schools with this funding. Students can have funding removed at the end of any academic year if there is a real problem, but more commonly at the end of year 9 or year 11. However, there is huge benefit to the family if a child retains their MDS into 6th form as the new DADA funding scheme implemented this year, will really impact on the support a moderate income family would get for boarding. The government has used different income brackets to assess this, so a student retaining their MDS funding to 6th form will be much better off, generally speaking, as a boarder, than they would be on the new DADA funding.
  5. Primrose, just to let you know that 26 juniors from Tring danced with ENB this year; so quite a lot but the selection is up to the company, not the school. Tring is unusual in that pupils are put into sets according to their abilities, not their age and this is done by assessments so all decisions are evidence based and externally validated by independant experts who visit many times a year. Also there is movement between the sets after assessments if progress is made. This year every set in the upper school has pas de deux, and solos, and pointe in addition to their ballet classes, so every set is percieved as classical until their final year age 19 when they can specialise more. With Antony Dowson on the faculty now, (ex ballet master of ENB company) the classical training has never been stronger at Tring.
  6. Its always useful to see the end of year shows of the schools to have an idea of what the training looks like and importantly, to see if there are happy dancers on the stage. I do know that at Tring the lower school dancers perform with English National Ballet each year, both in London and on tour, sometimes twice a year, and that is a wonderful opportunity for the children, they just love that. And, in this last year, 2 Tring graduates joined English National Ballet company making a total of 5 that went straight into that company from school. So with the younger ones performing with ENB and the older ones joining the company, Tring is producing quality dancers. I do advise Sarahw to audition at all 4 MDS schools, as often there is a 'feeling' you get when you visit a school and your instinct tells you what would be right for your child.
  7. It varies each year how many the schools have to offer new pupils as it depends on how many students leave who had an MDS. Last year Tring had about 10 and this year much less, as so many of the sixth form were MDS funded and they all stayed on. So what happens one year with the amount of MDS awards at a school is no measure of what will happen next year. In total I think that Tring has nearly 50 MDS places, across the year groups. Maybe next year there will be a lot more available as there are a lot of 6th form who currently have MDS places and they will be graduating.
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