After Easter we will be using the Beatrix Potter stories as inspiration for our Creative Ballet Classes. Come and join us as we introduce the children to all of the well known and loved characters including Peter Rabbit, Jeremy Fisher, Jemima Puddle Duck and more.

As we work with the characters and stories we will also be sharing some of the stories as performed by the Royal Ballet and the music composed by John Lanchberry for many of the characters. You can watch a trailer for the ballets in the clip below.

We have three levels of classes and children move up through the classes according to age and ability.

Ballet Prep: (30 mins)  3 – 5 years.

Ballet Mode: (30 mins)  6 – 7 years.

Ballet Tech: (40 mins)  8 – 10 plus years.

Cost: Ballet Prep and Ballet Mode are £4.50 per class. Ballet Tech is £5 per class. Fees are paid on a 6 week block basis. We offer a FREE trial class that can be booked on our booking page at the link below.

Please see our Schedule and Booking page for times and locations of classes.

If you have not signed up for classes for this coming term click on this link to go directly to our schedule and booking page.

Today was our last week with The Hungry Caterpillar story and we had great fun using shadow to take our butterflies on an adventure over land and sea, through gardens of trees and flowers and meeting other larger animals. Below is a video of the magical moments from the session!

This term in our creative ballet classes we are going to be exploring a beautiful story called The Sand Horse written by Ann Turnbull and illustrated by Michael Foreman.

One windy summer day, an artist makes a horse sculpture out of the sand on the beach at St Ives. It takes him the whole day, and all the beach people admire it. But when everyone goes in at the end of the day, the Sand Horse can hear the white horses in the surf calling to him: ‘Come with us to Sennen, Land’s End, and Longships Light!,’ and he longs to join them. The story ends with the Sand Horse galloping away in the waves with the other white horses. 

Each class will engage with the story at their own level.  We will be taking our inspiration for movement from things that we find at the beach and as well as creating ways to explore and retell the story through movement.

Unfortunately this book is no longer available to buy new but you can find it second hand here.

We have three levels of classes and children move up through the classes according to age and ability.

Ballet Prep: (30 mins)  3 – 5 years.

Ballet Mode: (30 mins)  6 – 7 years.

Ballet Tech: (40 mins)  8 – 10 plus years.

Cost: Ballet Prep and Ballet Mode are £4.50 per class. Ballet Tech is £5 per class. Fees are paid on a 6 week block basis. We offer a FREE trial class that can be booked on our booking page at the link below.

Please see our Schedule and Booking page for times and locations of classes.

If you have not signed up for classes for this coming term click on this link to go directly to our schedule and booking page.

This term in Floor Explorers Parent and Toddler Movement Class we are going to be starting a new theme.

Come and join us as we read, move and get creative with Eric Carle’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

We will be using our imagination to explore each section of the story from popping out of the egg and moving like a caterpillar, to travelling to find all kinds of food and transforming into a beautiful butterfly.

Our sessions encourage children to develop and use their own ideas, listen to others and think creatively. We love seeing adults and children respond to new ideas, create, move and play together. Our classes are also a great place to meet other parents!

Classes are suitable for any child who is walking.

Classes £4.50 up to 2 children and £2.50 for an additional child. (free trial class available)

Fees are paid on a termly basis (6 terms per year)

If you have not booked in for our classes yet, visit our schedule and booking Schedule & Booking page or click on this link.

Classes are on Wednesday mornings in Kington Langley Village Hall

10:00 am – 10:45 am followed by a snack and drink (with some time for freeplay).

If you have any questions please get in touch. You can email Rachel at [email protected]

This term in Floor Explorers Parent and Toddler Movement Class we are going to start a new theme that will take us up to Christmas!

Come and join us as we read, move and get creative with Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury’s book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.

We will be using our imagination to build a bear cave, splash through a deep cold river and squelch through thick, oozy mud.

Please bring a teddy bear with you and we will build the cave together during the session.

Click on this link to watch a wonderful telling of the story by author Michael Rosen.

Our sessions encourage children to develop and use their own ideas, listen to others and think creatively. We love seeing adults and children respond to new ideas, create, move and play together. Our classes are also a great place to meet other parents!

If you have not booked in for our classes yet, visit our schedule and booking page or click on this link.

Classes are on Wednesday mornings in Kington langley Village Hall

10:00 am – 10:45 am followed by a snack and drink (with some time for freeplay).

If you have any questions please get in touch. You can email Rachel at [email protected]

This term in Floor Explorers Parent and Toddler Movement Class we are going to be continuing the theme that we started in our summer special in July. We will be thinking about everything to do with stars and using that as inspiration to move and create together. Our sessions encourage children to develop and use their own ideas, listen to others and think creatively. We love seeing adults and children respond to new ideas, create, move and play together. Our classes are also a great place to meet other parents!

If you have not booked in for our classes yet, visit our schedule and booking page or click on this link.

Classes are on Wednesday mornings in Kington langley Village Hall

10:00 am – 10:45 am followed by a snack and drink.

We love using books in our classes and this term we have a few books that we will looking at for inspiration in case you would like to get them to read at home.

If you have any questions please get in touch. You can email Rachel at [email protected]

This term in our creative ballet classes we are going to be exploring the story of The Elves and the Shoemaker.

Each class will engage with the story at their own level but our version is inspired by a performance of the story created by the Northern Ballet. In this version, the shoes made by the elves have a magical quality –  they are dancing shoes! As well as creating ways to retell the story through movement, we will be thinking about how the different types of shoes make us dance. We will also be designing our own shoes and creating our own ways of dancing in them.

If you would like to read the story with your children at home we are using 2 books as well as looking at the Northern Ballet version.

Ballet Prep: 3 – 5 years

Ballet Mode (6 – 7 years) Ballet Tech (8 – 10 years)

Click on the link below to watch a trailer of  Northern Ballet’s version of the story.

Click on the links below to download and read their version of the story with photos of the dancers and watch some behind the scenes videos.

Behind the scences videos

The Story

If you have not signed up for classes for this coming term click on this link to go directly to our schedule and booking page.