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  1. On 28/04/2023 at 11:13, Neverdancedjustamum said:

    Did you mean attend full time or for the summer intensive? As far as I know, there’s only one British girl there at the moment but I could be wrong.  Majority of POBS students are French especially in the younger years which is why I’m always very impressed by students from overseas who get offered a full time place there. 

     

     

    In all honesty I’m not sure. My daughter has been offered a week in the school in June (she’s 17) but it’s not the summer school (that’s later on the summer. I believe she will join the classes that if she attended full time she would be in and will be assessed. 
     

    was wondering if anyone’s child had been and done this and what they thought of it. 

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  2. 7 hours ago, tutugirl said:

    If it’s any help my DS started off doing 3 A levels at Tring .

    He dropped back to 2 - Maths and Physics , which he gained good grades for . He secured a contract in a ballet company . He wasn’t the only one . So this is acheivable.

     

    I think 3 would have been a bit much for him .

    Tring have a very good choice of A levels and wonderful classical training.

    Thank you. I think 2 would be all she would choose if she was at a ballet school 

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  3. 28 minutes ago, glowlight said:

    I don't know if this will help, but I had a quick trawl through the current websites and pulled together this summary.

     

     

    Establishment

    Accommodation

    Ballet qualification

    A levels

    Arts Ed at Tring (Tring, Hertfordshire)

    Boarding School

    Trinity College Diploma in Professional Dance at Level 6

     

    Wide range of A Levels offered.

    Pupils usually study 3 or 4

    Central School of Ballet (London)

    You arrange your own accommodation

    Foundation degree/BA (Hons)  in Professional Dance and Performance

     

    Elmhurst (Birmingham)

    Provided by the school 

    Trinity College Diploma in Professional Dance at Level 5 or 6

     

    A levels offered – a choice of Art, Biology, English Lit, Maths.  Not clear how many people take

    English National Ballet School (London)

    You arrange your own accommodation

    Trinity College Diploma in Professional Dance at Level 5 or 6

     

     

    Moorlands International Ballet Academy (Clitheroe, Lancashire)

    Boarding School

    Not clear what qualification vocational students come out with – but there is an option to do

    Level 4 Diploma in Dance Education (DDE) Qualification 

     

     

    Wide range of A levels offered, but not clear to what extent vocational students study these

    Northern Ballet School (Manchester)

    You arrange your own accommodation

    Most students stay in halls within 5 mins walk of the school

    Trinity College Diploma in Professional Dance at Level 6

     

     

    Royal Ballet School (London)

    Provided by the school 

    BA Degree in Classical Ballet and Dance Performance

    Option to study 1 A level in Art, English Literature, French or Mathematics

     

    Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (Glasgow)

    You arrange your own accommodation

    BA in Modern Ballet

     

    The Hammond School (Chester)

    Boarding School

    Trinity College Diploma in Professional Dance 

    2 A levels from a range of subjects

     

     

    I would consider carefully how important A Levels are at this stage, because if you only audition for schools which offer A levels you are limiting your choice quite a lot.

     

    I believe some students do A levels in their 'spare time' at other schools or colleges, but remember they are already doing a physically and mentally demanding full time course at a level which is at A level to degree level depending on the institution.

     

    When my dd got a place at Northern Ballet School, where A levels weren't part of the standard offering, my feeling was to let her put her all into her dance training while she had the chance.  You can do A levels at any age.   If you are lucky enough and talented enough to get a place at a vocational ballet school it is a once in a lifetime opportunity.

     

     

    Wow thank you. I see the same. If she was lucky enough to get a place I feel she should pursue it abs do alevels later. It’s actually her that wants to finish her schooling 

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  4. 1 hour ago, taxi4ballet said:

    Something to bear in mind about Tring is that although it is a boarding school, overseas students need a nominated 'guardian' or similar who lives in the UK.

    Thank you. That’s not a problem as she has an older brother living there atm. 

  5. 22 minutes ago, NJH said:

    Northern Ballet School in Manchester is an 'Upper school '  offering  the 'normal'  levle 6 Trinity Diploma  (  with  either a Calssical ballet focus or  Jazz/Theatre  focus)


     the Academy of  Northern Ballet  in Leeds currently has no 16- 18   offer 9 and hasn't historically had one the subtext  is go to CSB    given the Gable connection ( also the Tindall / Bateman /Dixon connections there as well - but   it;s not to say that  CSb  predominates - as a quick look at the  bios  page  will tell ) -  certainly the daughter of a teacher friend of mine who is currently  going into Y11 and  is Northern CAT  has CSB as the top of her list  )   as CAT  is y6/ Y7 -Y11 and  the Graduate program is for those with a  level 6 award  
     

    Sorry I’m really confused. What is csb, tindall/Bateman etc? And CAT. We are not from the U.K. so I struggle with these abbreviations sorry 

  6. Ah thank you for that. I was struggling with the website but I think perhaps I was mixing the two schools up. My daughter would be slightly older as a September baby she will turn 17 just before she enters year 12 but it still a worry. The U.K. for is a longer bigger than Cyprus and she’s not particularly street wise allow extremely domesticated and mature. I think it may be a bit of a culture shock where ever she goes 

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  7. Thank you. I was actually just looking at northern ballet but was a bit confused. Is it not a boarding school? At 16 she will need to have accommodation included as we will not be coming with her. We live in Cyprus. I’ve just seen looked at tying and see they offer a dance course rather than just musical theatre which is what I originally thought 

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  8. Thank you for your reply. She doesn’t want to do a general dance only ballet. She currently does 4 graded ballet classes ( grade 8 & adv 2) pulse a couple of pointe classes, variation , free class, stretching, contemporary  and jazz. She knows she definately doesn’t want to do musical theatre. 
     

    moorland is on our list to look at. I’m not sure it would work her attending an academic school Then ballet elsewhere with her being completely alone in a foreign country. I’m not sure what she would gain from it compared to what she experiences now. I wondered if we would be better investing the money into her attending summer schools ? 

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  9. Hello

     

    im hoping someone can point us in the right direction.  We do not live in the U.K. but my daughter currently about to start year 11 wants to go to the U.K. next September to study ballet and also do some a levels. I know nothing about the courses available or the terminology used for them so we are finding it quite difficult to know where to apply. If you type in ballet schools U.K. you can imagine that it brings up every little dance school in the country! 
     

    obviously we know of the bigger ones like elmhurst and royal ballet but where else can we look. We have no experience in U.K. ballet. She applied to royal ballet last year for summer school but only made it on to the waiting list so she may not even be of a high enough standard. 
     

    can any one give us some advice on where to start. 

  10. Thank you so much. She’s 14 so an older girl so I guess tights are good. She wasn’t too impressed with bare legs!  We don’t have any regulation leotards do I will tell her to go for the plain navy strappy one rather than the beautiful red lace one she’s just bought 😂 

     

    thanks for the photo tips. I won’t be getting involved. Think I’ll leave that to her ballet teacher! I can’t be doing with the huffing, puffing and Eye rolling that comes with it! 

  11. Sorry if this has been covered already but I have searched and can’t find an answer 

     

    for the elmhurst application it states practice clothes and bare feet unless stated. So looking at the photos there are two with shoes on. Are these both pointe shoes?? (Obviously the one on the left is on pointe but the other?) Do they wear tights? Or is it bare legs? And practice clothes?? We live overseas so not sure if this is a British term for a particular leotard..

     

    can anyone help please ??

  12. Thank you everyone for the replies. We’ve now applied for Yorkshire and she would also like to apply to elmhurst. If we are unsuccessful for those then we will try one that doesn’t require photos. Her teacher is keen for her to try enb but she doesn’t want to go to a non residential. 
     

    thanks again for the suggestions. Just need to sort photos for elmhurst now but that’s another post! 😄

  13. Hello I’m new on here so apologies if I’m not asking in the right place.  We live in Cyprus and my daughter (she’s 14) would like to attend a summer course in the uk this year when we visit for a wedding. We applied for rbs but unfortunately she didn’t get in (she’s on the wait list but I’m assuming so are millions of others,) I have a few questions that I hope someone can help with. First question, how do I know if she’s at the right level (good enough) or if we are out of our league. We have no experience of ballet in the uk. She did a summer intensive here in Cyprus last year but I’ve no idea how the standards compare. Next questions. If she is the correct level I need somewhere residential (or where we can take a family holiday) but it needs to be the weeks before or after July 11th. We really can’t afford to stay all summer in the uk or make 2 trips as we are a fairly large family and flights o Cyprus can be expensive  (dd is the middle child out of 5) school here finishes end of June so we can travel any time after that. So far I’ve found ballet west and Yorkshire ballet that tie in with our dates. Any other suggestions? 

     

    Thank you you in advance 🙂

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