2007

Bethany Guy has been awarded a B.B.O. Senior Ballet Scholarship. [10/11/07]

Jessica Horner is appearing with Mickey Rooney and Les Dennis in Cinderella at the Sunderland Empire. [29/10/07]

Zerrin Asir has joined Aimee Berry, Bethany Guy and Isabella Price as an Associate of the Royal Ballet School.[23/09/07]

Aimee Berry has been accepted for a second year as a Royal Ballet School Senior Assocciate in Birmingham. [22/05/07]

Sarah Murray was awarded her British Ballet Organisation Teaching Certificate at the Royal Ballet School. [22/05/07]

Clare Maynard has been accepted as a full-time student at the Italia Conti School and starts there in September. [22/05/07]

  2006  

Congratulations to Isabel Price who has been chosen as a Royal Ballet School Junior Associate, and to all the children who were successful in the June I.D.T.A. exams, especially Aimee Betty and Laura-Anne Stewart who have been invited to dance in Manchester for the I.D.T.A. Theatre Awards as a result of their work in the Grade 5 Modern Jazz exam.  [30/06/06]

   2005  

Sarah Murray has passed with Distinction the Teaching Foundation Course of the B.B.O.  [26/11/05]

Congratulations to Laura-Anne Stewart who has been awarded a B.B.O. Modern Jazz Scholarship and to everyone who did so well at the Northumberland Festival. Special mentions for Clare Maynard, who won a Gold Medal for Ballet and was also runner-up in the Cabaret Championships, and for Aimee Berry, who tied for the Classical Aggregate Trophy having been placed first for Ballet and National and second for Character. It was so lovely to have Emily and Francesca and Emma, and, of course, Irene and Bev, there for the cheering!  [28/10/05]

Emma Price joined Emily Hughes at Elmhurst in September and Lydia Redpath, who moved with her family to Vancouver, has joined the Canadian National Ballet School. Alex and Holly Moffat, Honor Penman and Holly Purvis have been appearing in Beyond The Rainbow at the Sunderland Empire this summer.  [26/09/05]

Our school show for 2005 is entitled, Once Upon A December, will again be performed at the Whitley Bay Playhouse.  Our students are currently rehearsing very hard for this and we hope you will be able to come along and watch on the night! [26/09/05]

Emma Price starts full-time at Elmhurst Ballet School in September and Francesca Moffat has accepted a funded place on the Classical Ballet Course at London Studio Centre. Emily Hughes was offered a funded place at the English National Ballet School but has chosen Elmhurst. [18/07/05]

Seven pupils and students attended the B.B.O. Easter Course at The Royal Ballet School. Aimee Berry was awarded the Ruth Berney Cup for Ballet and Laura-Anne Stewart was presented with the Artistry Award. Wayne Sleep generously added Bursaries to each of the awards which were presented on stage by the Marchioness of Londonderry (the former Royal Ballet ballerina, Doreen Wells). [01/04/05]

Francesca Moffat has been offered a full-time funded place on the Classical Ballet Course at the London Studio Centre. Emily Hughes has been offered three years on the full-time Student Course at Elmhurst (after attending the Junior School for a year) where third years are apprenticed to Birmingham Royal Ballet. Congratulations, also, to Fiona Dale who is a member of the Dance Fitness team from the North East who won a gold medal at the Blackpool Championships. [23/02/05]

Katie Collings and Amy McKenzie are sharing the role of "Annie" for Ponteland A.O.S. in March. Ellen Bartlett is to be "Molly". Sophie Bartlett, Rhowena Hall, Amy Higgins and Georgina Lee are among the "orphans" and Sophie Hood, Francesca Moffat, Jenny Smith and Laura-Anne Stewart are also danScing in the show. [15/02/05]

Please could we remind all pupils that they are expected to be correctly groomed for all ballet lessons.

   2004  

Juliana Haggerty (Distinction) and Pamela Galbraith are now fully qualified teachers of the B.B.O. Their Diploma course has involved them being in London for one or two week-ends each month for the past year and has included study of such subjects as anatomy, child psychology and music as well, of course, as ballet and teaching. 

Both teachers already have Honours degrees - Juliana in Physiology from the University of Newcastle and Pamela from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance. Pamela is studying further for a P.G.C.E. and also teaches at Dance City. 

Both are former B.B.O. Scholarship holders and Juliana was also a Junior Associate of the Royal Ballet School. Our teacher, Angela Scorer, has a degree in Dance and Drama. [09/11/04]

Emma Price has been awarded a B.B.O. Scholarship. Emma won her Ballet Section at the Northumberland Dance Festival as did Laura-Anne Stewart, Zerrin Azir (Novice) and Francesca Moffat who was also awarded the Classical Aggregate Trophy. Many other medals were won including a gold medal for Speech for Emma. [09/11/04]

As a result of her mark for Grade 4 Modern Jazz Francesca Moffat has been recommended for the I.D.T.A. Scholarship audition. [12/09/04]

Aimee Berry and Emma Price are Mid-Associates of the Royal Ballet School.  Francesca Moffat, Laura-Anne Stewart and Aimee Berry hold British Ballet Organization Scholarships and Francesca was specially commended at the Royal Ballet School Easter course. Francesca has also been offered a place on the Pre. Senior Course at The Central Ballet School in London at week-ends.

Laura-Anne Stewart and Sophie Hood have successfully auditioned for Billy Elliot The Musical and Laura-Anne and Katy Collings are in Fiddler On The roof at the Theatre Royal in October.  [22/07/04]