Is My Child Ready For a Dance Exam?
Exam Season is almost here! It is exam season at Peninsula School of Dance and many of our students are busy learning and refining syllabus work. If you are wondering what on earth exams are all about, and whether or not your child should participate in one, then read...
Tips For Helping Your Child Stick With Dance
Challenges for busy Mums As a busy mum of three active kids I certainly understand and appreciate the challenges we all face in juggling our children’s activities and our family commitments. I am a big believer that busy kids, engaged in our dance community, will...
Miss Mel’s 3 Top Tips for parents to help PSD Kids Respond to Audition Results
As we prepare to announce our casting results for Alice In Wonderland I thought it would be a great opportunity to reflect on the important role that parents play in helping their child respond to audition results. We all want our kid to be successful, right? We want...
When do I Get My Pointe Shoes?
When a little girl enters our studios and commences ballet there is usually an immediate desire to be like the big girls and dance “en pointe”. Our walls are full of beautiful pictures of ballerinas dancing in Pointe shoes, and as we engage in improvisation and free...
Why Dance is Better Than Any Therapy
I was teaching class of 7-8year olds and it was a challenging class. Lots of various needs amongst the students from a little one with a troubled home, to another who was struggling to fit in socially and the rest, well they were just tired and ratty. I had pulled out...