TDC October Monthly Newsletter
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- Nov 11, 2024
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Another month of classes have flown by for us at TDC, we have spent our time working on our own personal growth, building each classes ability to work as a team, working towards our parents evenings and floor show, and celebrating Halloween Together in our dance family. We enjoyed some time off and have been thriving since coming back into classes, TDC are looking forward to the last few months of the year, we have lots to work towards and cant wait to share how much our pupils are continuing to improve in our new term. Keep up the hard work, keep dancing, embodying our family values and having fun with us in classes.
This Blog also marks the 1 year mark of us starting our TDC monthly newsletters, we love being able to share with our parents and supporters a little insight into what we get up to, but we are always looking to improve. Please tell us what you like/dislike about our newsletters and anything we could be doing better at TDC...
Here's a look into all we got up to in October 2024 and everything we have to look forward to in the last 2 months of 2024.
What we got up to in October..
September was a month of self improvement for us at TDC, if you look back at our Last newsletter, we have lots of new things happening in and out of class; New timetable, staff, studio improvements, new protocol, equipment and more. This month has been all about settling in and adapting with these changes. Our pupils and parents have all been very welcoming and supportive of change, we thank you for this and lots of encouraging feedback. We strive to create the most supportive, save and enjoyable dance journey for our pupils and supporters at home!
We have been loving Jazz across all age groups, Jazz is a teachers favourite as all our our class teachers thrive in this style. We have been pushing our pupils out their comfort zone, adding new moves to their travelling sections, as we prepare to showcase what we have learned at Parents evening in December. Our inter girls have even been learning senior sequences, steps and different styles of choreography, on both Tuesdays and Saturdays, these girls love learning new things and pick it up so fast for a class their age. Well done girls.
Musical Theatre classes found out about their amazing opportunity, in performing at our local Lights switch on! They have been challenging themselves in class with new choreography and pushing their acting skill, but are now focusing on their singing and learning new Christmas songs for the event. Can't wait to see you all 'Sparkle and Shine'
Our beginner acro had a spotlight earlier in the month where we shared one of our stand outs perfecting a new sequence, Hope was beautiful and set a great example for the rest of the class. This class has been amazing we are so impressed with the improvement so far. Both acro classes learn new sequences every week which is a challenge in itself, our Advanced class were given a very hard sequence aimed at showcasing our more experienced dancers in this class, we were blown away when every pupil gave it a go, pulling out skills we didn't know they had! We can't wait to perfect it, with practice and determination.
We spent October break working on tidying up the studio continuing to make improvements, October marked our first Anniversary of TDC studios, we are so proud of this achievent and thank you all for making the studio your second home.
We are well under way with our rehearsals for our first ever annual Floor show for our Stretch and skills pupils, all of our pupils have been working really hard to perfect their skills to showcase to all their supporters at home. Our Boys only stretch and skills classes especially have been shining extra bright working hard to learn and try new things in the last few weeks, they are hard workes and fearless, can't wait for them all to be able to show all they have achieved.
This Month we celebrated lots of birthdays in and out of class. Happy birthday to all our October Birthdays including our Teachers Emma W and Ellie! Our pupils Priya and Ruby J also came to class with us on their birthdays (on the same night), where we had lots of fun celebrating with them!
Class Stand Outs
As always our TDC pupils continue to amaze us, their are some pupils shining especially bright this month who deserve the recognition for their hard would and emboding .our school values. These are taken from our TDC achievement book, where our staff take note of all our notable wins during class;
Our inter Ava L stood out for showing massive improvement in her level 3 S and S class, for her Beautiful backwalkover.
Grace H has been shining in all her classes, Grace is such a joy to teach, polite and hard working, she has improved so much since our last show and we are super proud of her.
Georgie S is new to us at TDC, she has been constitantly one of our hardest workers in our level 1 S and S class, she soaks in eveny bit of knowledge her teachers share and has been n loving classes with us.
Neve and Mylie have been the ones to watch since moving into our Advanced acro and joining more classes through the week. They have both smashed it fearlessly trying new stills and moves challenging themselves every week, and coming on so well, its amazing how much they have both achieved in such a short time. Neve had only just achieved a back bend before our show and now is confidently falling back on her own, doing backwalkovers and chest rolls un assisted!
Our little hip hop star Blakely has been showing off all his cool moves to his teachers, growing with confidence every week, he brings so much energy to class, we love to watch him shine.
Millie N is another one of our little stars who has been working on confidence and has grown up so much, we are very proud of her.
Ella H has completely blown us away this term, since joinging Jazz classes with us on a Saturday, we have watched her natural talent and ability shine through, she is a little perfectionist and her technique is just beautiful to watch.
Cameron has been coming more and more out of his shell in his hiphop class, especially when it come to our freestyle circle where the spotlight is all on you.
Mia B has been a stand out in our baby hiphop class, within just a few weeks at TDC she has completely came out of her shell. Knowing all the moves already after a shy start - she loves her sassy walks and dancing with the scarfs.
Clark has been working on his Handstands and is doing really well, he takes corrections in his stride.
Rory and Jack have been smashing their handstand bridges and can't wait to show it off at our Floor show next month.
Our little Ariella with the big girl moves, blew us away this month when she whipped out a new skill out of nowhere in class. When warming up between classes Ariella said she though she would just give a back handspring a try un assisted and smashed it. such a hard and amazing skill to achieve for a pupil, only 6 years old. Well done.
Lastly we had to give a special mention to two of our Inter stars Eilisia and Bailee who have been helping and encouraging others especially when it comes to confidence. They make sure no one is left out and are so supportive. Keep being you girls we are proud to have you in our team.
Class of the Month
Our Class of the Month for October is all of our Musical Theatre classes. They have all been working extremely hard, and proving their talent, being challenged with new choreography, being introduced to new Musicals and songs which they are picking up in their stride. Our Teacher Emma W has even been discussing show prep with them, allowing the pupils to share and discuss their ideas for Musicals to be performed by them in our next show in 2025. Now they face their next challenge in preparing for performing at the local lights switch on, learning new songs and moves in such a short period of time can be challenging, but we know our inters and seniors will take it in their stride. Good luck!
Here's what Emma had to say about each of our MT classes in the month of October...
Junior MT... a hard working group, who as a result are absolutly thriving. Each pupil is growing with confidence and enthusiasm week by week, diving into a new song and choreo to 'Splish Splash'. they have embraced the character with such excitment, they are also encouraging and supportive of each other, which is lovely to see.
Inter MT.. Are steadily building both their confidence and sense of teamwork. Each class we lift each other up, learning to rely on one another and embrace the spirit of ensemble performance.
Senior MT... have been working well together, moving into learning more choreography to prepare us for when showtime comes back around. They are a lovely group to teach, Phoebe, Haley, Sophia and Millie have been standing out in class; the girls are throwing themselves straight into this new class and tackling everything head on. A joy to TEACH!!
Halloween Week!!
Wow wow wow! Halloween Week at TDC has been an absolut blast, we have loves playing games, doing spooky choreography, sharing trick or treating stories and seeing all of the effort from our pupils in their amazing costumes in class. Thank you all for spending it with us and for taking the time to dress up for classes! Here are all of our amazing pic from throughout the week. We hope you all had the best time!
Click through our picture gallery and help us decide our best costumes of the week!!
Meet the Team
This month we updated you all with a reintroduction to our staff, sharing more about us as teachers and talking about our favourite things at TDC. W e hope you all got to know is a bit better...
And again... this one was just for fun. Let us kknow if you want us to share the outtakes of our TDC teachers in their interviews LOL!
What's coming up at TDC…
Kilbirnie Lights Switch on
TDC Musical Theatre (inters and seniors), have been given the amazing oppertunity of performing at this years Lights switch on for Kilbirnie Town. Pupils can sigh up for this performance on our events page of the website, by selecting a performers ticket, to let us know who will all be in attendance.
Rehearsal will be Sunday the 24th of November.
Their singing performance will be Saturday the 30th of November.
We hope to see you all there supporting a performer our just supporting TDC and your TDC friends!!
TDC Christmas Floor Show 2024
The purpose of the floor show is to allow the stretch and skills students to showcase what they have learned to their family and friends as they did not participate in our annual showcase in August. We will be taking you through a display of all the skills, sequences and moves we do week to week in class.
Baby stretch and skills will be 11am - 12pm
Boys & level 1 will be 12.30pm - 2pm
Level 2 will be 2.30pm - 3.30pm
Level 3 will be 4pm - 5pm
Tickets are available for all NOW! Via our websites event page!
Please note if your child doesn’t not attend Friday stretch and skill classes, OR Boys only stretch and skills on Thursday, they will not be required on Sunday 1st December!
Parents Evening
The first week of December we will be welcoming a parent or supporter to come watch your child across all classes at TDC! come along to class as normal and get to spend a full class with us, watching your TDC dancer shine and maybe even joining in. We have been looking into investing in some chairs for this event and are all excited to give our Parents more of an insight of everything we do and achieve at TDC.
Classes eligible to bring along a parent/family member/friend, will be classes from Monday the 2nd of December to Saturday the 7th.
*Due to the nature of the classes Friday night classes will be excluded from this, all stretch and skills classes are displayed in our floor show and we have other plans in the works to share what we get up to in our acro classes. Thank you for your understanding.
We can't wait to invite you all into our Home!!
TDC Christmas Party
Save the date... TDC will be hosting our annual Christmas party for all ages, with lots of special surprises, festive treats and guests. We will be announcing more and sharing tickets on this very soon!!
Thank you all for taking the time to read through our Monthly Newsletter. Can't wait for a new month this term, with lots of things to look forward to! We now share a WhatsApp group with all our parents and guardians, to discuss important updates.
Make sure you follow all of our social platforms, please comment, share and feedback. We share lots of important updates on our socials, but we also share insights into all of our classes, from dances we have learned, to having fun doing the latest TikTok trends. We are constantly sharing all the fun things we get up to in class.
We hope you all have an amazing month, we will see you at class.
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