LyndseyJ

On 22/04/2024 at 20:07, Kenco said:

Has anyone heard of any results yet from the beauty and the beast final auditions on Saturday? 
thank you🙏

My DD also did the auditions this weekend, shes an associate with MTB, the results usually take around 2 weeks to be received

Good Luck  

On 06/02/2024 at 17:22, glowlight said:

@LyndseyJ - it sounds as if a new school is just what your dd needs right now and I'm so pleased that she has that positive move to look forward to.

 

Have you thought about applying for summer schools or performance opportunities such as English Youth Ballet?

I’ve never looked into English youth ballet, may go and have a look at it thank you for the heads up x

5 hours ago, Mumof1 said:

Hi Lindsey , 

I don’t usually write much on here, just a lurker but felt compelled to say that even though it doesn’t seem it, from our experience sometimes it’s all for the best and exactly what everyone else has said, it’s not their time. 
my daughter was decided quite late that it was suddenly her dream to go to a specific vocational school. She had a really bad final audition and hence didn’t get a place. I’ve never seen her so devastated. Adamant she was going to try again we did our best to build her confidence and she started entering comps which she’s never done before and show her things that were new. Fast forward a few months and after stepping out of the associate scheme bubble she realised that actually this school was not what she wanted and we didn’t even go to the audition that we’d payed for. She’s now pleased she got a no as she wouldn’t have had the experiences she had had this year . 
I hope your daughter feels better soon and having a new school and teacher could be exactly what she needs, esp with less pressure of the year 7 audition process . 

Hi, 

Thank you for being a lurker and talking to me i appreciate that. 

New school being looked at this week x

Thank you all for replying to the messages, we are feeling a tad batter now. 

We have managed to get some feedback from The Hammond, which has helped a lot, this has given DD something to work on. 

listening to you all, its made me realise that these schools are not the be all and end all, and i know that she will get her goal if she carries on doing her classes and focuses.

She is feeling a little better about it all to be honest, we are going to trial a new ballet school this week which teachers RAD and IDTA classes but will have to do 1-2-1 classes as she will be in associates on a Saturday. 

20 minutes ago, Balletmum1210 said:

So sorry to hear your news, it is really difficult. 
 

My daughter worked really hard and had 3 years as a RBS JA, made the finals for Elmhurst, and RBS semis but unfortunately didn’t end up with a vocational or Mids place, Tring was a straight no . The advice we received from her JA teacher and her local teachers (35+ years experience) was that all children develop at different rates, some are physically ready at 11 and others take a few more years. That being said, gaining a vocational place at 11 does not necessarily

mean the child will be any more successful than a child that gains a place at 16 for example. 
 

Please don’t give up. In the dance world, there are a lot of rejections, so being able to positively deal with it at this age can be a good thing for preparing for the future. Speak about how you feel with your child’s dance teacher to put a plan together for moving forward. 

Thank you, 

we are feeling a bit better tonight, I’ve had some really lovely messages from

people on here that have put mine and my husbands minds at rest, 

DD will be ok she is pretty resilient and will bounce back

we are moving dance school she isn’t clicking with the dance teacher she has right now but my husband has spoken to  a new one and she will see her Thursday x

1 hour ago, glowlight said:

So sorry to hear your news @LyndseyJ. 

 

 

 Don’t know what to say about it all

to be honest 

need to try and stay positive 

23 minutes ago, Dance86 said:

What JA class is she in? As my daughter goes to Birmingham, JA 4. Hope you here from the Hammond soon, as emails and letters are going out by the looks of it 🤞🏻

Hi, DD goes to

midland Theatre Ballet at the BOA / Elmhurst 

she didn’t get offered a place so we are currently all feeling a bit blue and down. We don’t know what to say or do, don’t know what we need to work on. I don’t want to talk about ballet right now. 
 

I’ve just dropped her off at the local ballet school and she sobbed didn’t want to go, so what am I supposed to do, she has gone and we are looking at changing her 

1 hour ago, Lissieloo said:

Yes we had the same email too. 

Yes we got the email too x

5 hours ago, glowlight said:

 @LyndseyJ - if part of the problem is that she is unhappy at her local school - perhaps you could look at other options locally. If it's not working for her maybe another move would be for the best.

 

 

 

 

we are going to look into changing her just going to get to July and move if things are not better at the school.

she has had plenty of No’s before for different things, this was just something she has worked really hard for, but I explained Tring was going to be hard but so is Hammond to be honest 

23 minutes ago, Kerfuffle said:

Remember that any choice made by a school when a child is 11 is a calculated guess and rejection now does not necessarily reflect your child’s potential. My DD is now at an upper school with those who were at prestigious lower schools including WL. She was rejected from JAs for year 6. Her route between 11 and 16 was unconventional but she got to the same place as others who seemed more successful at an earlier age . Don’t let these results define you, there are other options that open up if it’s meant to be. 

Thank you ☺️ 

We have explained about retrying again if unsuccessful, 

we are very very proud of what she has accomplish and done I would never have the confidence to do what she has 

Yes she has done auditions before, I think it made it worse for her as she made friends at the auditions with the schools and hearing they got in to finals etc hit her hard. 
 

we just keep encouraging her and applying for different things which I know she will love 

we also need funding and I have explained this to her already which I believe she understands but will still

make her upset and think it will me and my DH as well. 

Yes she has done auditions before, I think it made it worse for her as she made friends at the auditions with the schools and hearing they got in to finals etc hit her hard. 
 

we just keep encouraging her and applying for different things which I know she will love 

32 minutes ago, Workhard_Dreambig said:

It’s really hard but don’t lose hope yet. DD got a no for her audition for Elmhurst. It was the first result and hit her hard (she took to her bed to lick her wounds and then bounced back) I recall emailing her JA teacher to ask what the chances were of any good news as I couldn’t get my head round the chance of receiving a yes after that very first no, but she then went on to have offers from 3 other schools, two with MDS/Bursary so all is not lost. Each of the schools look for different things. 
 

And if it’s not meant to be this time don’t lose hope children change and come into their own when the time is right for them. 
 

Wishing you the very best of luck. 
 

(Just a note to add DD isn’t actually at vocational school, we tried but being away from home wasn’t for her,  and actually being at home and putting individual things in place for her has been brilliant so again it’s not the end of the world, but I absolutely know how you are feeling)

yea I think having the no first has given us a knock back and so it’s making the waiting so hard.

It’s hard when she hates the local school she’s at but not been there a year yet it’s mainly due to the teacher. But she loves her JA classes in Birmingham. 

x

So my DD applied and got auditions to Tring and The Hammond these are the two she wanted. 
 

so she didn’t get a place at Tring and now waiting on results from the Hammond. She’s nervous now, as she believes she won’t get a place. I’ve explained it’s a hard thing to get into these schools.

how do I keep her motivated if she doesn’t get offered a place, she sobbed when Tring said no.

7 minutes ago, Tania.H said:

I’ve just seen on the Hammond website that there is another audition 25th Feb due to high demand. So I assume we would find out after that date now. 

Oh wow really, well that’s not great for those with Tring placement is it! 
 

They should send a email out then stating when results will be out, not fair on the kids waiting on results 

1 hour ago, Mumoftwogirls2023 said:

Does anyone know anyone who is still to audition? I know someone had said they knew someone who was auditioning in Feb as they couldn’t get there in Jan. Just wondering when the last one is as I am guessing they can’t make their decisions beforehand. 

I thought the last audition date for yr 7-8 was this Monday just gone, so unless they are doing a date with the older year groups I don’t know 

Ahhhh that makes sense 

good luck to everyone x

7 minutes ago, Tania.H said:

So we get a response by letter? I can stop stalking my inbox’s 🙈. My daughter loved the audition process. She came out beaming. Will keep my fingers crossed for her and everyone on here for good news 🤞🏻🤞🏻

I believe so that’s what we got told 😀

Thank you for that, this is one of the reasons my daughter wants to go

here so much. 
 

DD feels sick with nerves right now 😞esp as she didn’t get in to the other school she applied for 

1 hour ago, Mumoftwogirls2023 said:

@LyndseyJ glad it went well. Feels like a really long time to wait now! Do we know if we might out by email or by post? I know offers for Tring have started to come out today. 
 

Good luck to everyone! 

Katie told me they would be out by letter so don’t let Arabella sit at the post box everyday around the 9th Feb she said 

yes we got our email re tring today 

55 minutes ago, glowlight said:

@LyndseyJ - please don't stress about it. Even if it did make a difference they'll know that people are nervous.

I’m hoping so as she’s  upset today as she didn’t get accepted into the other school she applied for 😥😥

My daughter heard back re year 7 today

good luck 🤞 

20 minutes ago, Peanut68 said:

I expect it’s quite likely more an HR/internal box ticking criteria that they (maybe all schools) have to show they are doing to some measure & can I’m sure in no way mark anyone out if they  are selected nor if they are not. Probs just a process with nothing to do with pupil selection 

I really do hope so as I’m feeling rather stressed over it as in I don’t know if what we said or didn’t say was good enough my daughter was anxious so didn’t really say much as well 

We got picked for the interview and I’d been absolutely dreading it, but overall it was ok daughter went very quiet and fidgety probably due to nerves. 
 

Good luck to everyone xx