News Headings

Autumn Antics Raises money for Charity
Cllr Jenny Weaving, Town Mayor of Thatcham was presented with a cheque by WBBS


Ballet Exams
Some of our younger students took their ballet exams just before we broke up


WBBS visits local schools
We visited two local schools as part of the Food and Fitness Fortnight


Ballet Russe
Fourteen of our Grade 4 and Grade 5 students had an amazing experience this spring


WBBS goes to Mabel Ryan
This year WBBS sent 4 students to the annual Cecchetti Mabel Ryan competition in London.


Junior Cup Classes 2007
Mrs. Claire Hern, an experienced Cecchetti teacher, came to adjudicate our end of year Junior Cup classes


Summer Successes
Alex, Alice, Eloise and Holly all had things to celebrate this summer.


Cup Classes
The Cup Classes for the senior ballet students took place at the end of January this year.


Cecchetti Centre Christmas Choreographic Workshop
WBBS had 8 pupils at this workshop this year


Scary classes on Halloween
On Saturday all the Petite and Primary children came to class in their Halloween costumes and did some scary dances


Cecchetti Summer School
5 WBBS pupils went to the Cecchetti Summer school this year


Holly Unnuk chosen as Head Girl of the Legat School
Congratulations to Holly, former pupil and teaching assistant of WBBS and our Aurora last year.


Our Boys Go To London
Three of our boys went to London for a day with Richard Glasstone


Modern workshop day
The senior modern class were very lucky to have a visit from guest teacher Alison des Bois.


A Laugh a Leap and a Lunch
We were asked to put on a show ass part of Thatcham Arts Festival...


Mabel Ryan Competition 2005
WBBS pupils do fantastically well


Exam Successes 2004

West Berks Ballet School pupils were once again very successful this summer.

A Sad Goodbye to Michaela

We are delighted to report that Michaela Doran has gone on to vocational dance training at the Legat School. We are of course sad to see her go and wish her every success. But we know she will come back to do the odd class with us and show us how well she is doing.



Alayne Hadwick
Alayne has passed her Associate Examination with distinction.
Scary Scary
It's Halloween time again


Summer Sizzlers
Our Summer Sizzlers was a great success and helped to raise money to improve the Hall


Cecchetti Associates
Two WBBS pupils will be travelling to London as Cecchetti Associates this year


Modern Exams June 2008
We had a modern Exam session where some of our pupils sat major modern exams


New Timetable

After the Exam session last term most of the classes have changed names though times are the same.



More success for Samuel
Samuel Butler has been offered a place at Laine Theatre Arts for October 2008.


Holly continues her progress
Holly Unnuk has just been offered a place at Laban for this autumn!


Billy Elliott Outing
Two coaches of pupils and parents went to see Billy Elliott on 09/07/07


Junior Cup classes
Junior Cup classes took place at the end of the Autumn term.


Wine Wit and Wonderland
Together with Kennet Amateur Dramatic Society we put on a show called Wine Wit and Wonderland as part of the Thatcham Arts Festival


WBBS on tour again!
WBBS were invited to Pinewood School near Swindon to give a demonstration last week


Alex selected as Senior Associate.
Alexandra Holburt has been selected as a Senior Associate with the Royal Ballet School


Mabel Ryan Competition 2006.
Our girls really 'did us proud' and both Alex and Alice received Commendations


Well Done Alex

Alex Holburt auditioned for London Childrens Ballet along with 400 other hopefuls and we are delighted that she was successful and will be appearing in The Three Musketeers at the Peacock Theatre, London in May 2006.



Congratulations to Alayne Hadwick

Alayne announced her engagement to Ben at a party hosted by Martin and Joyce Eggleton for WBBS friends in their beautiful garden.



Mary Baker
Mary Baker, who has played for us 29 years (started very young!!), celebrated a "very special" birthday in March.


Our children help at The Cecchetti Centre in London

We were very proud to be asked to supply some children for a demonstration class in London.



Kirsty on the Stage!

Jane Alayne and Lisa went to see Kirsty performing in London Sudio Centre's end of year show. Kirsty was lovely and a joy to watch.



West Berks Ballet Approved as a Dance Centre
A Dinner, A Dance & All That Jazz
WBBS helped to raise money to improve the Bucklebury Hall


WBBS outing to the Royal Opera House
We had a magic trip to The Royal Opera House in London


Cecchetti Scholars
One of our junior students has been awarded a scholarship


Don't we look smart?
Here are four of our Grade 1 girls in their new school hoodies.


Some of our students


Swan Lake at the Coliseum Jan 2008
We have now filled 2 coaches for this wonderful outing next year. There will be a record number of 115 of us going! We may have one or two spare tickets


Mabel Ryan Competition
3 commendations and a medal!


Alice in Wonderland
96 of us went to watch the ENO perform Alice in Wonderland at the Coliseum


Some Recent Pics of our pupils


Jane & Mike's daughter gets married!
The highlight of our summer holiday this year was the marriage of Caroline and Andy on 2nd September.


Exam results
WBBS had a two two day exam sessions in March and May with pupils taking exams from Primary to Associate Diploma


Modern and Tap Exams

We had an exam session on 25th and 26th March 2006 here are some pics of the candidates before they went in



Ballet class photos
Some photos of pupils in class


Cups and Awards 2005

We were very happy that Miss Elizabeth Heron-Watson was able to come a award our cups this year.



Lion King Outing
57 of us went to London to see the Lion King on the 13th of July. What a show that was!!


Holly Wins a Scholarship
We are delighted and very proud that Holly Unnuk has won a 50% scholarship to The Legat School of Dance


Lisa Millard Exam success

Lisa had a particularly good summer. She passed her Associate Exam grade and then (along with Jane and Alayne) her Advanced 1 with an A grade. Well done Lisa.



Cecchetti Scholars

We are delighted that Holly Unnuk has been awarded the WBBS Scholarship to the Cecchetti Centre in London and are sure that she will make great use of the extra lessons with the excellent and varied teachers.



WBBS Pupils Selected to Dance for English Youth Ballet

Holly Unnuk and Samuel Butler successfully auditioned on 1st Feb 2004 for the English Youth Ballet's forthcoming production of Sleeping Beauty at the Wycombe Swan.