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    My daughter started to become very aware of food and fat/sugar around this age and it was nothing to do with dance! It was her primary school's rather ill informed healthy heating lessons in PHSE and she suddenly started to ask for low fat yoghurts and tell me that pure fruit juice was bad and she should be drinking sugar free drinks instead (which I didn't buy as me and her brother were intolerant to the sweeteners they then contained).
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    Being Scottish I suspect that you perhaps have a different mindset to uni fees and student loans than us across the border as I believe that university tuition is free for Scottish residents at Scottish Universities, am I correct? In England many people don't consider it as getting into debt, but more of a Graduate Tax.
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    You can also bear in mind that if you live close enough for it not to be a problem to get your child to school for 8.45am & they just have a smallish weekend bag then if it fits in with your plans better then you can return your child to school on the Tuesday morning. A friend's dd often does that if they have plans for the evening before.
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    My daughter never did festivals but I agree with Sarah, blue is very old fashioned & isn't a good look for ballet. Dd's previous teacher used to ask for natural browns/beiges for ballet, rose coloured blusher & rose coloured lipstick. For modern & tap they used brighter colours. No foundation for primary aged children. Now dd is older she wears foundation one shade darker than usual, a cream coloured eyeshadow base, brown on the lids, a peachy coloured blush & alternates between a rose lipstick & a more red shade depending on the theme.
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    As part of the child licensing application process you have to sign to say that the part to be danced/acted can only reasonably be performed by a child. There is an increased expectation today that young people will get an education up to the age of 18 at least.
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    It depends if finances are a consideration
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    Not exactly Looby. Yes MDS schools rank their candidates in order of potential in classical ballet but unlike Dada's they are allocated a certain number of awards so it doesn't matter how rich or poor the families of the children above you in the list are. If a school has 7 awards and you are number 6 on the list you will get one, if you are number 8 it will be waiting list.
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    No, they are allocated in strict order of perceived talent. It just means that ifvthe people at the top of the list require less money they can offer more people awards Wheras if the people at the top of the list need more funding the money runs out after less awards.
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    Auditions

    theother51 replied to Liv56's topic in Doing Dance

    It looks like there is a new website https://www.shannonandpeter.co.uk/midlands-associates
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    Schools are not allocated a certain number of Dada places but instead are awarded a pot of money. As Dadas are means tested how far that money goes, across how many students depends on the parental income of the applicants.
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    Auditions

    theother51 replied to Liv56's topic in Doing Dance

    Midlands Associates could also refer to the monthly scheme run by Peter & Shannon Parker in Newark, Notts http://midlandsassociates.yolasite.com/
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    Are you talking MDS funded places only or just vocational school places.
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    An extremely unscientific & inaccurate method of working it out is to ask your child roughly how many children they know in each year has an MDS - (they are not supposed to discuss it but it becomes apparent when visiting the dancewear supplier) My guesstimate would be that roughly 6-9 awards are given to Year 7 every year but that each year as they move through the school that Year group acquire the odd one or two more. It has been known for there to be double that amount of awards in a year group by the time they reach Year 10 & 11. Someone on the forum last year said there were a lot of MDS awards given to her child's particular year group that would become available when they reached the end of Year 11. About a year or so ago someone told me that all the candidates at finals are given a score & ranked from 1 to for arguments sake 30. Then if there were 15 MDS awards for example, the first 15 names would be awarded them.
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    There were approximately that number of MDS awards available last year but I believe that they they were split between Years 7-10.
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    Not necessarily. At many MT auditions the first round is a singing round & they cut from those.
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    Ah well, aches are a different thing entirely! I did try some of the Lisa Howell exercises on my daughters DVD. I think I lasted all of 30 seconds.
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    If she is following Lisa Howell correctly it should not hurt.
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    I completely agree with Anna. Children should be allowed to join a class according to their ability, current level of strength & technique, speed of learning & maturity not just when their birthday happens to fall.
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    Whilst Grade 2 is an entirely appropriate grade for a 9 year old if the teacher says she is more than ready for the exam then I fail to understand why she cannot move up into Grade 3 & skip Grade 2 completely if the only reason she can't do the exam this time is lack of other potential candidates. If your daughter is getting bored that will be detrimental both to her progress & her enjoyment of dance. I would seriously consider a move. If the teacher is this inflexible now then what will she be like in the future? It would be entirely different if the teacher said she wasn't ready yet.
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    Church Lane
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    I would imagine they enquire so they know when the funding they have been allocated has run out.
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    Ah, that explains it.
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    Me neither Pas de Quatre. I thought student finance was to do with the course accreditation & awarding body, not CDET.
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    I don't think I've ever seen a Grade 4 requirement in any of the casting calls, just excellent dancing skills.
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    The criteria for Matilda is incredibly strict. HOW OLD DO I HAVE TO BE TO AUDITION? We will audition children for the role of Matilda who are aged 8 to 12 and under 4ft 3. Her classmates need to be aged 8 to 13 and under 4ft 10” tall with brilliant dancing and singing skills! Boys must have unbroken voices.
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