We are very sorry to announce that Mrs Sue Roberts, long-serving and much-loved houseparent at White Lodge, has sadly lost her long and brave battle against cancer. Sue, and her husband, Greg, returned to Australia this summer after 10 years at the School. Their daughters Jenna and Callie were both students at Upper School and […]
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In October 2013 the Royal Ballet School first year students began a collaborative project with students from The Brit School. In keeping with the aims of aDvANCE, this project enabled students of The Royal Ballet Upper School and The BRIT School to share skills and learn from the differences in their respective dance training. Both institutions
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We are pleased to announce an event bringing together the country’s leading dance schools in a collaboration at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio Theatre in March 2015, hosted by The Royal Ballet School. Spring Celebration: A showcase of British dance training, will be a special evening celebrating the very best of British ballet training.
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Yesterday we went back in time at White Lodge to co-host a sumptuous Victorian Tea Party for children with special educational needs from three local schools along with Richmond Park’s Holly Lodge Centre. The event was one of two hosted in Richmond Park each year to teach children the history of White Lodge and its inhabitants.
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Today we have announced three new artistic staff will be joining us to teach at the School from September 2014. Carol-Anne Millar has been appointed as our new girls’ Artistic Teacher at White Lodge. Carol-Anne was a student of The Royal Ballet School both at White Lodge and the Upper School, going on to spend the
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On Saturday the parents of our Year 11 students were invited to a special evening of performances in Richmond Park to celebrate their graduation from White Lodge. The evening started with a welcome from our Head Boy and Head Girl, Augustus and Claudia, followed by a glittering programme of mixed ballet repertoire and musical performances. A
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The first ever Royal Ballet School Summer Concert was held at White Lodge earlier this month in our Margot Fonteyn Theatre, giving students a chance to demonstrate their musical and theatrical talents. There were excellent performances from pupils across all the year groups based at White Lodge (Years 7 to 11). The school’s choirs performed beautifully alongside
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This year’s Summer Fair at White Lodge featured a special stall manned by our Year 7 students. They were selling pointe shoes they had decorated themselves in aid of Cancer Research UK and raised a grand total of £613.10 — a fantastic achievement. The fundraising was in tribute to our former Director, Gailene Stock, who died recently after a long
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We are delighted to invite secondary schools, colleges and youth groups to apply to work on a project with The Royal Ballet School. This innovative dance project is designed to link A Level and BTEC dance students and selected London Secondary Schools with young dancers of a similar age at The Royal Ballet School. The projects are creative collaborations for a group of pupils who
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