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My lovely petite 4ft 5 inch 11 year old daughter has size 7 feet, very difficult to find school shoes as the styles all seems a bit too grown up. Have told her that feet need to slow down because at the moment they are making promises her body may not be able to keep!!

Dd very excited to be joining you for the week, even now MORE excited following the announcement of the guest teachers!

As a non ballet dancing mum something I lack is the knowledge about how to find the best enrichment programmes for DD. She is serious about her dance but with so much choice sometimes it does feel like my head will explode!

A pathway for her 11-16 years would also be valuable together with some key milestones, whilst I appreciate it's more about the journey than the destination sometimes I have worried that we are lagging behind with grade achievement etc.

I hope this helps.

Hi, is the barre still for sale?

That's for the words of encouragement, what helps with the disappointment is that she has also received a letter this week via school so say that following some outreach sessions they did at her school she has been invited to Tring in July for a review for further scholarship lessons, looks like this will be for a Jazz session. Ballet is showing itself to be a gap in her skill set. Need to research how to plug it. Well done Balletmum 20- celebrations tonight?

My daughter auditioned last Sunday but unfortunately received a no this morning. She was in group 2 and with a limited syllabus background I'm not surprised - though disappointed... She had a great time, enjoyed the experience and will no doubt have renewed energy to put back into her ballet. The experience has made me/us realise that her current timetable of only one ballet lesson a week is probably not enough, need to do some research to find additional lessons. Her focus has in recent years been on Modern probably to the detriment of ballet. Time to re-focus.