Yesterday we went back in time at White Lodge to co-host a sumptuous Victorian Tea Party for children with special educational needs from three local schools along with Richmond Park’s Holly Lodge Centre. The event was one of two hosted in Richmond Park each year to teach children the history of White Lodge and its inhabitants. […]
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Today we have announced three new artistic staff will be joining us to teach at the School from September 2014. Carol-Anne Millar has been appointed as our new girls’ Artistic Teacher at White Lodge. Carol-Anne was a student of The Royal Ballet School both at White Lodge and the Upper School, going on to spend the
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On Saturday the parents of our Year 11 students were invited to a special evening of performances in Richmond Park to celebrate their graduation from White Lodge. The evening started with a welcome from our Head Boy and Head Girl, Augustus and Claudia, followed by a glittering programme of mixed ballet repertoire and musical performances. A
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The first ever Royal Ballet School Summer Concert was held at White Lodge earlier this month in our Margot Fonteyn Theatre, giving students a chance to demonstrate their musical and theatrical talents. There were excellent performances from pupils across all the year groups based at White Lodge (Years 7 to 11). The school’s choirs performed beautifully alongside
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This year’s Summer Fair at White Lodge featured a special stall manned by our Year 7 students. They were selling pointe shoes they had decorated themselves in aid of Cancer Research UK and raised a grand total of £613.10 — a fantastic achievement. The fundraising was in tribute to our former Director, Gailene Stock, who died recently after a long
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We are delighted to invite secondary schools, colleges and youth groups to apply to work on a project with The Royal Ballet School. This innovative dance project is designed to link A Level and BTEC dance students and selected London Secondary Schools with young dancers of a similar age at The Royal Ballet School. The projects are creative collaborations for a group of pupils who
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This week we have welcomed students and staff from the Royal Danish Ballet School, visiting us over two days. Our Danish visitors have been in contact with Year 9 students as pen pals and have come here to meet their new friends and learn about how our students’ life and training compares to their own. Yesterday the
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Alongside their weekly dance classes, we have planned a number of enrichment activities for primarySTEPS students next term. Junior Associates Level 1 children and their parents or guardians visited Junior Associate centres in Leeds, Manchester and London to watch and join in with classes. They learnt more about The Royal Ballet School and were inspired
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Today we announce a pioneering new partnership with Dancers’ Career Development to make the subject of career transition a formal part of our full-time students’ curriculum. Dancers’ Career Development will work with students in the final three years of study at The Royal Ballet School (ages 16 to 19). They will be given an Introduction to Transition in Year One and
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