February Taploid!

Hello, Bon Jour and welcome to the Glittery Tapping Wonderland!
Bienvenue back to all our wonderful fairies and welcome, bienvenue, welcome to all of our new fairies!!

Term fees

Thank you all for being so wonderfully prompt with your fees payments!

I think we are practically all sorted out for the term, which helps us all immensely! – No more scurrying around the garden for nuts and berries, we can go to the supermarket!

Please remember that after Saturday the 17th of February (After the 3rd week) there is a late fee added to unpaid fees.
It’s added to encourage you to pay your fees early so that we can determine how many places we have available in a class and ensures that you or your child keep their place.
This also helps control how many there are in the class, and of course helps us pay the bills!

Term 1.

Term 1 will conclude on Saturday the 31st of March.

Glitterization workshop!

Watch out! Here comes the first Glitterization Day of 2012!
We usually have a Glitterization workshop each term so that those drab ol’ beige tap shoes can become exceedingly fabulous!
(Glittery shoes are not compulsory!)

- Cost – $20 – To be pre-paid.

- Northcote Studio – Friday the 2nd of March at 4pm.

- St Kilda Studio – Saturday the 3rd of March at 10am.

- Mordialloc Studio – Saturday the 3rd of March at 3pm.

- What you need to bring along-
– Your Dance shoes.
– 3 vials of glitter.
(Please don’t forget the glitter – such a personal choice!)

You can purchase glitter at Sam’s Warehouse, the Value Craft glitter is very good for Glitterizing your shoes.
Spotlight’s glitter is a bit dodgy and seems to fall off!

If you are going for, say, a pink glittery shoe, it can look fabulous with some opal or holographic silver mixed in.
It’s good to have some course glitter and some fine glitter in the mix.
If you are going for a primary colour like red or aqua, stick with the one colour glitter, as it will look insanely extraordinary!
Jaggered glitter also tends to fall off and looks a little nasty.

Please try not to stress too much over your glitter purchase, maybe give Miss Lou Lou a call to guide you through!

Help us keep the studio… lovely!

Please help us by packing up the toys after your children have used them and popping the chairs back in the waiting room. Thanks

Tap shoes

Please keep our gorgeous tap shoes paired up and put back on the shelf in their size spot, it will make it easier for you when you are trying to find the shoes for your child next time.
Please remember the gold coin donation.
Thanks and Ta

Drink bottles-a-plenty!

Please check the lost property, as we have 2 million drink bottles lost and sobbing.

Labour day

Monday the 12th of March is Labour Day, a magical day when all pregnant women give birth, the hospitals will have a busy day I expect, but if you are around and not giving birth, we will be dancing as usual.

Make-up classes

If your child is unwell or are going to miss a class we are happy for them to do a make-up class.
It is most important to book in for the make-up session because if you arrive to a class without us knowing there maybe several other children also having their make-up session on the same day/time.
This can cause colossal chaos and may result in having 14 children in a class and your gracious teacher foaming at the mouth.

Please call your studio manager PRIOR to the class to let her know so we can work out where you can fit in.
Make-up classes must be made up within the same term.
If we are not notified we cannot offer a make-up class.

Emails

Glittery Tapping Wonderland is keen on sending out emails to remind you of up and coming events, reminders and of course our newsletter… The Taploid!

These emails are sent to all the families, and although you are very glamorous, it may seem that our lovely personal email is sent to you exclusively, O Glamorous One… But if you receive an email regarding late or unpaid fees and you have efficiently and lovingly paid them… please ignore the email.
If you know anyone who does not receive our emails, we may have a dodgy email address, which needs to be rectified.

Thanks for taking the time to read our emails, as mostly they are quite informative!
Our Newsletter is always available at the studio, emailed out to you and on our website.

Studio 2

Now that your gorgeous fairy has happily settled into their magnificent class, could Mums, Dads and Carer’s possibly wean yourselves into the window room to watch?
Studio 2 is a tad small to have everyone in there.
If your child still needs you there, we are happy for you to stay until they feel safe.
Merci beaucoup.

Class times.

We ask if you could try hard to be on time for your dance classes.
The start of the class is just as important as the middle.
The fairies class begins with stars on their right foot and some magical glitter, a ritual that connects them with the teacher and makes them feel part of the class.
If the fairy is late, they miss out which can be quite devastating for a 3 year old!
If a child is late we will give them their stars and glitter, but this holds up the class or interrupts the exercise that the class has started on.

The older kids classes will miss out on warming up, which is a very important part to every dance class.

On the other end of the spectrum…
If fairies arrive too early, it is tricky for their teacher.
The teacher is busy creating the magic before the children arrive and feel awkward when they are not in their fairy outfit with lights, music and the magical atmosphere in full swing.
Please give your teacher a few minutes to get organized before you come in.

Thanks for your understanding.

2nd hand Shoes!

We have second hand tap, jazz and ballet shoes for sale.
We are happy for you to try them on and decide whether they are suitable for your child.
Please don’t send your child off into the dance class wearing these shoes. These are not our shoes they belong to someone who has out grown them.
The more these shoes are worn, the more they will be worn out, more than when they first are put into the resale box and will less likely to be purchased by someone.

Brand new shoes!

We have pale pink and fabulous red Ballet shoes for sale at the studio.
Smaller and larger sizes will be arriving soon.

Fabulous News Flash!
Gorgeous pale pink tap shoes will be arriving soon and available for you to purchase.

Jiffies

Jiffies and socks are not suitable to wear to dance class.
Both are very slippery and neither supports the foot.

Please do not send your child into the class in either of the above, especially in our acrobatics/jazz class; it is a hazard when cartwheeling and performing other fancy tricks.
We will not allow them to dance if they are wearing jiffies or socks.

Please check our second hand box for some pre-loved jazz shoes.

Dr. Lottie

Dr. Lottie is our resident health professional who writes a column for our newsletter each month. Her comments can be a little harsh, but if you are seeking some advice and are game enough, please feel free to write to her at dr.lottie@glitterytappingwonderland.com

HEALTH CORNER

With Dr Lottie Prospect.

Dear Dr. Lottie,
I am a very keen dancer and have heard Australia’s Got Talent has been auditioning for their new season’s show.
Do you think I should audition?
Signed Hesitant and Precautious.

Dear Hesitant and Precautious,
My immediate thought is, are you talented?
It is one thing to be a keen dancer, but frankly, do you have the talent to perform in front of an audience and on National Television?
The Professor and myself are fervent dancers and were personally asked by the show to come along and audition.
We instantaneously declined.
But in the past months of hounding and constant phone calls, we accepted their offer to audition. It was strictly on our terms of course.
Unfortunately the weekend prior the audition, we were Big Wave Surfing in Hawaii.
Astride the Jet Ski, towing the Professor out toward the waves, I observed a rather hefty wave approaching from “out the back” (Surfer lingo for a wave further out.)
I summoned to the Professor that he should watch himself, as what was coming was a doozey.
But being the strong-willed idiotic fellow that he is, he climbed aboard the 40-foot wave and away he went.
Subsequently he was relaxing amongst the coral and failed appear for half and hour.
To cut a long story short, his back went into involuntary muscle contraction and was bed ridden for the entire week. Consequently we were forced to abandon our Audition.

I was relatively disappointed, hence the Professor being banished to the garden shed as soon as he could stand.

Thank you for your uneasy letter.
Dr Lottie.

Thanks for reading!
Love Miss Lou Lou xxx