Thank you to each and every member of our online school for making 2023 so special. In 2023, we had dancers join us for our weekly online classes, courses and events from across England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Isle of Man, Isle of Wight, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Italy, Malta, Romania, South Africa, China, Malaysia, Mexico, USA and Canada!

So many amazing memories from 2023 –
🔹 Our school’s 45th anniversary
🔹 Offered a full-time places at the Royal Ballet School, Tring Park School for the Performing Arts and Elmhurst Ballet School
🔹 Successfully auditioned as a Royal Ballet School Mid Associate, Ballet Boost and on the Northern Ballet Centre for Advanced Training
🔹 Invited to take part in the Silver Swans Celebration Day 2023 at the Royal Academy of Dance headquarters. Our video was also featured as part of the Royal Academy of Dance’s World Ballet Day.
🔹 Offered places at Royal Ballet School Summer Intensive, Elmhurst Ballet School Summer Intensive and Joffrey Ballet School Summer Intensive, and attended multiple intensive courses without pre-selection/audition processes.
🔹 Worked with artistic roller skaters, ice skaters and gymnasts to enhance their routines and provide ballet training. They competed successfully across the UK and internationally, winning multiple championship titles.
🔹 Team GB selections for our Ballet for Sports
🔹 Successfully auditioned for Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty Dreams
🔹 Featured in Woman’s Weekly and Breathe Magazine
🔹 A fully-booked Silver Swans events for Silver Sunday and Age of Creativity Festival 
🔹 All our dancers took classes with guest teachers and Q&A events and students attended external workshops with Birmingham Royal Ballet, Midlands Ballet Theatre and Northern Ballet.
🔹 Modelled professionally for Dancewear Central and appeared in their catalogue and Christmas campaign
🔹 Taught Silver Swans classes for the Royal Voluntary Service in their Virtual Village Hall and for Carers UK
🔹 Raised £755 for Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary
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We're so excited for 2024!

A huge thank you to our children's school, adult classes and Silver Swans® who have donated so generously to our Christmas fundraiser for Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary!

We're thrilled to announce that we have raised £755 for Bleakholt with donations coming in from our online students in all corners of the UK and abroad. We almost doubled the target we set for this year's fundraiser – so a huge thank you to everyone who took part in our fundraising events

Wishing all the staff and animals at Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary a wonderful Christmas!
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📸 Our dancing grandma and granddaughter! Both raising money in this year's Christmas Sparkle Week for Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary (Esme is in our children's school and Chris is one of our online Silver Swans!)

November has been a fantastic month for our #balletforsports students. Huge congratulations to everyone who has competed with great results and PB scores!
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Here is our November roundup from competitions – thank you to everyone who shared their amazing results and photos with us!

𝓡𝓸𝓼𝓪𝓶𝓪𝓲 – North West Regional Championships – Under 10 (individual) 1st place, Level 4 Espoir (group) 1st place

𝓢𝓸𝓯𝓲𝓪 - North West Regional Championships – Espoir (group) 2nd place, Hoop (individual) 4th place

𝓢𝓸𝓯𝓲𝓪 – North West Regional Championships – Level 4 Espoir (group) 1st place, Under 9 Level 2 hoop (individual) 3rd place

𝓘𝓼𝓸𝓫𝓮𝓵 – North West Regional Championships – Level 4 Espoir (group) 1st place, Under 11s Level 3 Hoop (individual) 1st place

𝓚𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓪 – North West Regional Championship – Hoop (individual) 2nd place

𝓘𝓼𝓪𝓫𝓮𝓵 – Roller Cup – 2nd place

𝓙𝓮𝓼𝓼𝓲𝓬𝓪 - GBSA Winter Solo Dance Festival 2nd place in InterSilver/Silver Solo Dance, 3rd place for Rio Show Number, 4th place in Teams Bronze Over

𝓔𝓸𝔀𝔂𝓷 - GBSA Winter Solo Dance Festival – 1st place show dance, 2nd place teams, Solos 5th place. MRDC Competition – 1st place in freedance, 1st place in solos , 3rd in drawn duos

𝓖𝓮𝓷𝓮𝓿𝓲𝓮𝓿𝓮 – GBSA Winter Solo Dance Festival – 1st place show dance. MRDC Competition – 1st place non-medalist, 1st place Advanced Sequence Field Moves. Larkfield Swimming Club Championships – 1st place 200m Butterfly, 3rd place 200m Freestyle
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Keep up with your great work, everyone. We are so proud of you all!
Congratulations to all clubs and coaches, too!