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.

Come and join us for a 2-week Floor Explorers Summer Special! 

Floor Explorers is a movement session for pre-school age children and their parent/carer.

This block of sessions is inspired by the book How to Catch a Star by Oliver Jeffers and is a wonderful opportunity for adults and children to move, learn, be creative and have fun together.

Classes are suitable for any child who is walking. Read more about our classes here.

When: Wednesday, July 5th and 12th
Time: 10:00  – 10: 45 am (with refreshments after the class)
Where: Kington Langley Village Hall
Cost: Classes £4.50 each (one parent/carer and 1 child ) and £2.50 for an additional child

Get in touch if you would like more information AND click on this link to book a place.

Please pass this on to anyone you know that has young children.

The summer is almost here and we are getting ready to start our second block of classes.  This term we are continuing our theme of Flight using various children’s stories as inspiration – see here for more information.

We still have spaces available and are offering a free trial class if your child would like to come and try out what we do.

This first term has been a great start and we have loved seeing the children begin to explore new ideas, new movements and new ways of working together. Our classes provide opportunities for children to begin to learn the basics of ballet technique and movement, whilst also being challenged to generate their own ideas and responses to problem solving tasks, themes and story telling. Each child moves at their own pace within the material and we aim to keep classes to a smaller size so that we can respond to each student.

Creative dance helps children develop an increased ability to be in the body in the present moment, feeling all its sensations, both emotional and physical. It can help children’s social and emotional development, and this can, in turn, be of benefit in other spheres of life. 

Hertfordshire University Press

Please click on the links below if you would like to find out more and/or book a class with us.

Creative Ballet Classes Information

Schedule and Booking 

We are busy getting ready to start our children’s creative ballet classes on Thursday 20th April at Sutton Benger Village Hall. This term has some exciting ideas and inspirations to get us going. We are going to be basing the classes for the summer term on ideas around flight, inspired by stories of butterflies and birds both real and imaginary.

As well as introducing and working on ballet technique and movements, each class is built around a children’s story. We use the stories to help children embody movement concepts as well as provide material for learning choreography and for the children to create their own movements and dances.

The stories we are using this term include:

 

If you have not booked a place in our classes yet we still have spaces available.

Ballet Prep: 3:30 – 4:00 pm (app ages 3 – 5 years)
Ballet Mode: 4:00 – 4:30 pm (app ages 6 – 7 years)
Ballet Tech: 4:30 – 5:10 pm (app age 8 – 10 years)

Ballet Form: still to be confirmed (app ages 11 and up)

Classes are held at Sutton Benger Village Hall on Thursday afternoons during term time startin Thursday 20th April.

Follow this link for more information on our classes.  If you have any other questions you can email Rachel at [email protected] or send a message via our contact page.

Click on this link  to sign your child up for a class.