PutYourBooteesOn

Even if its a not yet this year, I know several children who were JEP this year whove now got full places as JAs. I hope your child has a great time x 

Another vote for Ballet Boost here. My DD has done several years in juniors and mids intensives and we love the whole ballet boost organisation x 

On 19/05/2021 at 12:04, CRH said:

Do you think many children do both Royal and Northern associates? Seems a bit much to me along with their usual dance classes. If so, then it's a shame that they get the opportunity for training with 2 Associate schemes when there are plenty of children on waiting lists who would love the chance of attending 1.

Not that I am taking anything away from dancers who have been lucky enough to be offered more than one place ( they are clearly very talented ) x

Yes my dd did JA for Royal and northern before moving to JA Royal and northern CAT. as someone else said, we chose to take both places while preparing for possibly going into vocational school. Plus for us, the local classes needed that extra boost. 

Northern are very accommodating of children fitting their classes around Royal, they were encouraging of it. 

On 15/03/2021 at 17:25, Balletbuds80 said:

@PutYourBooteesOn Hello! Are you able to tell us a bit more about the associates? How many are usually in a class and are they all put together for 9-11 year olds or in seperate year groups? I have a 9 year old DD who has applied but don’t know anyone who has done the associates to ask. 

In the associates, there were about 30 in the junior class. It was all of them together in normal world. I think this year they're split in two groups for covid reasons. It was a brilliant class, it was big though. The CAT y6 class is 14, and has been split in two all year as well so it's been amazing small groups. But both associates and CAT have had shorter times. 

10 hours ago, Mrs Tea said:

We are first week too! 

Likewise here x

A yes for my DD as well 

Sunrise - DD had a place last year with no rollover to this year. Still playing the waiting game 

My daughter is a y6 cat after doing JAs and being invited to move to cat. She's loved her time there, though is going to vocational school this year. Miss Cara is especially fabulous but they're all great. It's been a shame they've missed so much this year though... Like everything else! 

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Sorry to hear that howmuch. 

Yes here. 

Quite a few of the reserves get places, so fingers crossed. It was quite a wait for one of them though. Well into summer. 

Everyone’s exercises are "customised”, so the positioning of the leg in x stretch etc and DD got some exercises from the physio specifically for her. They have about 10 now, after starting with about 4. They insisted on a specific theraband (bought from them in the first lesson). We’ve never had written work but there was an expectation of keeping their lesson diary/notes. However this has never been checked/marked.  

3 hours ago, HowMuch! said:

It drives me mad seeing all these girls doing the splits before they’ve even moved! DD will most likely do a few nervous hops from foot to foot and then ask to wait in the foyer. 

When we were there, there’s a warm up space available, plus the audition room was open well before the audition but exactly as you say, we just waited in the foyer not stretching! 

We've just had ours. Their teacher said on the first day it's basically a guarantee, unless there's a serious issue, but it's nice to have it confirmed. 

Can anyone London tell me please what time the y6 girls JA class is? x 

On 21/01/2020 at 08:29, HowMuch! said:

I wonder how many of the 48 given associate places were for junior associates? 15 children maybe? 

It's a y5-6 class and there's about 30 of them in the class. Many but not all were new in September. I think there's more y6 than y5. My DD Is in y5 and there's a few of them but it's not 50-50 

9 hours ago, Creakingstool said:

 

Thanks, sounds like they do take quite a few forward, wonder how many audition in the first round. Just need to take somemore photos now for the application.

Their annual highlights for 18/19 said 307 auditioned, 66 given places with 48 being given associate places and 18 CAT. 

Creakingstool - It was a ballet class like RBS, yes, but the group seemed quite a bit bigger than RBS audition. Its all blurred a bit in my head now but i think it was about an hour. there was some just looking at them physically, but less so than with the RBS audition. there was preliminaries and then finals, with about a 3 week wait for the results of that if I remember rightly. 

On 17/01/2020 at 16:30, MPatti said:

 PutYourBooteesOn I just called the school and they said the first batch of emails that went out didn't confirm the date of attendance and residential/non-residential.  The person I spoke to said to just assume you got in to what you applied for. Hope that helps.

Thank you. Clarifies the date.... doesn’t clarify the accommodation option as we had said we would do either. We still will, just need to know which, lol. 

The CAT open day was brilliant last year.’  They watched company class, miss Cara taught the children in a fantastic class and they had q&a with company dancers. It was a great experience. DD is a JA this year and very keen to join the CAT programme next year now shes old enough. 

Has anyone had a response as to which week/accommodation option their child has been offered? 

Yes for my DD, age 10. We applied for just one week and got the same block of dates and no indication of accommodation....! 

My DD aged 9 loved the 2 she’s done so far x 

We both really enjoyed the insight days and it was red class not audition. No numbers and no panel observation etc. DD did it in one venue in y3 and got SWL for y4. She did it in London in y4, shes now a y5 JA at a different centre. We went to London to give her the experience of dancing in the RBS and it was really special to her. The class is welcoming and encouraging & we definitely thought it was a positive experience. .She absolutely loved it.  As a now new JA mum, I also quite like that I had the experience too because we’ve not observed any classes since they started but I have an idea of what they’re doing. 

On 17/09/2019 at 22:42, TinyNEDancer said:

Yep! I know that feeling!! 

 

BBA Hull is roughly 2 weekends a month too. It works well here too. Elmhurst is weekly and it gives us a bit of room for manoeuvre some weekends. 

 

My DD has already started to talk about the possibility of doing the BB summer school! 

We love the summer school, DD has done the last three years

17 hours ago, SJBallet said:

I specifically asked about private Dance school Social media accounts and the answer was no x

Hi! DD is in the same class, I was sat behind you. And hello @Shelovesdance. I’ve also had people say to me they haven’t applied because their child would find it too boring and basic but my DD absolutely loves it. We knew Miss hatton already and love her as a teacher but DD also loved it in the RBS context. She can’t wait for Saturday again.