The Royal Ballet School has always been an organisation that Miss Laura has admired having attended classes there as a child. The Royal Ballet School recently launched ATAP (Affiliate Training and Assessment Programme) where they select a small number of teachers to train and learn their methods of teaching. After a 3 stage application process, she was officially invited to train with them in the summer of 2023 to become an affiliate teacher. We are very proud to announce that Miss Laura successfully passed her assessments and is now an affiliate teacher of the Royal Ballet School.

All ballet classes at our school will now be following the Affiliate Training and Assessment Programme.

ATAP is a holistic approach to the learning of dance, where as well as performance skills, students will learn about the art form as a whole: repertoire, choreography, and appreciation. This will enable students to understand the language of dance by relating what they learn to the diversity of the art from past and current repertoire.

Miss Laura is so excited to be delivering this programme to our students and to have the opportunity to bring The Royal Ballet School ethos and expertise to our students.

We have already been lucky to send a number of our Virtuoso's to the Royal Ballet School in Covent Garden, London.

Learn more about ATAP