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@SissonneDoublee if course. That makes perfect sense. I’d have got here eventually with practice but now I don’t have to think too hard 😂. I think I’ll email the leotard shop and change the size.

Oh I wish I’d asked this first now. I’d assumed all first position would be sized the same. Re the hair bows, obviously we buy the ribbon, I would have cut it to size but with the braided plaits they would need to be a clip wouldn’t they as there is nothing to wrap a ribbon round?

@SissonneDoublee now I wonder if I’ve ordered too big. Hopefully it’ll be here soon and we’ll have time to return it if it’s wrong.

I’ve ordered a size 2 for DD she’ll be 9 in Sept and is 132cm tall. I tried a couple of first position (make of the JA leotard) on at her dance school on sat. I don’t know if that helps at all. Thank you all for the hair tips, I’m reasonably ok with hair so with a bit of practice we should be fine. @Bluebird22 re the U shaped pins. Do you mean bun pins rather than grips?

Ooh that’s good to know thanks. We’ll have a bit of a practice 😁

I might have to talk DD into a nice new hair cut then, otherwise I'm not sure they will look as neat as yours

What centre are you going to @BattementBatty We are Leeds Y4

@sunrise81 Hair looks so lovely like that, but DDs is so long and thick. The pack I received said normal hair for first class and then the teacher will let you know what they prefer... DD will be going to Leeds so eek!!! I did ask a question about the full tracksuit and was advised not to bother with the bottoms, but in the end I couldn't resist. If they don't fit they'll go back, but it felt easier to order everything at once.

@Waverley fab news. Congratulations, and also to all the other yes’s. Fingers crossed something comes of the SWLs and really sorry for the not yets. So glad this forum was here to sort through the madness... I’m sure it’ll run into another few pages yet!

So sorry for all the no’s. @Catlynn I hope your DD is ok and all the other DCs. X

Whilst we were waiting for our results I kept looking back at DDs photos and pulling them apart (she has a double chin on one as her head is down 😳😁). Also on the day of the audition DD was at the end of recovery from an ankle injury and hadn’t danced for several weeks before hand. Not only that but she was also poorly we got to the audition and weren’t 100% sure whether she’d actually go in. Thankfully she brightened when her friends turned up. But still looked unwell 😮. Once we were back home I took some more pics for another application and she looks so pale and drawn on them. On the face of all of all this I really thought the odds were stacked against her but she was lucky enough to be offered a place. This is probably quite an outing post but hopefully it provides some reassurance that you really cannot ever know. Good luck to everyone still waiting.

She said yes she did 😂

This is the first time I’ve understood this 🙈. I’ve tried to picture it from so many descriptions... just about to ask DD if she had to do it 😁

Aww sorry to hear this 😢 x

Sorry to hear that. Hope your DC is ok x

Good luck to all those still waiting 🤞🤞

I’m so sorry @ExpatB, I’m no help but I wanted to send you and DD a virtual hug. Im keeping my fingers tightly crossed for you.

Great news. Well done to your DD.

Oh thank you. I was going to email both and hope they’d be understanding. I don’t want to over commit DD but EYB would be almost over when JAs start so hope we can make it work.

I got a bit of insider help from a poster on here 😉 x

Oh that’s good to hear. And a good point about getting EYB before JAs. It will just be the one and we won’t be committing to anything else. Fab that your daughter is doing the CAT scheme. A few girls from DDs dance school did it and loved it x I also need to look at Northern in the hope their are some adult classes at a similar time to make up for me missing my pointe class 😂 Thank you for all your help. I’ll stop detailing the thread now x

Thank you @sunrise81 a mid sept start reduces it down to 2 clashes. One would be to request a later start at EYB and one is the actual performance which would be a missed JA class. Would that be allowed? (Why couldn’t they leave the younger ones with a 9.30 start 😭) The email said further info would be sent in July but we have to accept EYB by 2nd July. Sorry I probably appear quite neurotic now. This was not something I thought we would be facing. It’s a good problem to have but I’d hate to tell DD she can’t do EYB 😮X

Thank you for this. Depending on when term starts it might clash with EYB eek! How do I deal with that???

Does anyone know what time the Year 4 class is, I’m now fretting it’ll clash with EYB and hoping not 😁 x

It was lovely. I put the news in a card congratulating her for EYB and adding that it was also for JAs. She looked at me and cried 😍. She is very excited and I’m still reading the email constantly to check I’ve got it right! X