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Children are given opportunity in abundance and are championed for being who they are and for doing what they love.

Katie Hall
Parent

Dance

One of our most popular extra-curricular activities, weekly dance classes come in all shapes and sizes and are very much open to all.

Empowering self-expression

Classical to contemporary

From Reception to Year 2, weekly dance lessons are a much-loved part of the curriculum. In addition, ballet, jazz, tap and hip-hop are all on offer as individual or group classes. We have a huge (and growing) number of children who take part in external dance exams plus many opportunities to dazzle us with dance skills on stage.

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High standards

A school within a school

The level of teaching and expertise offered by our professional dancers is what gets our children hooked on this incredible form of movement and expression. Plus the fact that they have so much fun while learning.

Ballet lesson

Dance tuition

Our incredibly popular dance lessons are taught by talented professionals at a standard comparable to a specialised dance school.

Students follow a syllabus from either The Royal Academy of Dance, The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dance or The British Theatre Dance Association.

Styles include ballet, tap, jazz, hip-hop and boys' dance. There’s a host of opportunities to perform and compete but the emphasis is placed on encouraging confidence, musicality and a joy of dance as a physical activity.

Modern dance
boys dance lesson
Tap shoes
hip hop modern dance boys
Ballet
Girls ballet
Ballet class
Pre Prep tap