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Lucy Quick - Principal of Perform

21st July 2021

5 Top Tips on choosing a holiday course for your child

With the summer holidays fast approaching and the new academic year hot on its tail, there are a multitude of children’s courses to choose from but how do you choose? And how can you be sure…

Tags: holiday courses, extra-curricular, top tips

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20th July 2021

Creating Wonderland

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland - a story that has been told to generations of children and passed down through families across the world. 156 years after the book was first written by Lewis…

Tags: things to do, summer holiday, holiday course, alice in wonderland

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2nd March 2021

World Book Day - 6 ways to get your child to read

On the first Thursday of every March, millions of children celebrate World Book Day - a charity funded by publishers and book -sellers across the UK and Ireland. Their mission is to promote reading for…

Tags: confidence, reading, role play, communication, literature, encouragement, english, stories, literacy, world book day

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26th November 2020

Perform moves online

Back in March, lockdown arrived without warning and we spent our Easter holiday working on developing Perform At Home. We quickly got 11 of our most experienced Producers up and running and launched our…

Tags: child development, concentration, coordination, covid 19, lockdown, perform at home, virtual learning, zoom, confdience. communication, online classes, distance learning, pandemic

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10th November 2020

The pandemic and children's mental health

Something I love about working with children is their general positivity and upbeat attitude but it’s often easy to breeze over the fact that many share some of the same worries, concerns and anxieties…

Tags: child development, parenting, confidence, , social interaction, communication, mental health, coronavirus, covid 19, pandemic, self esteem

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1st October 2020

We're back, Covid-Safe and better than ever!

We were hugely excited to reopen our classes in September but it’s fair to say that I did have some apprehension about how we could make it work with ever-changing government guidelines. We were…

Tags: confidence, concentration, safety, back to school, coordination, communication, autumn term, coronavirus, health and safety, covid safe, social distancing

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21st August 2020

Creating a Covid-Safe Perform class

We’re approaching our sixth week of being back in the class with children in our face-to-face holiday courses and it’s been going really well! I’m in awe of how quickly and easily…

Tags: safety, back to school, weekly workshops, coronavirus, health and safety, covid safe, social distancing, september

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19th June 2020

Returning to Perform post-lockdown

When schools closed on 20th March, so did Perform. Apart from major holidays like Christmas and Easter, there's almost always a Perform activity running somewhere and we're generally been active…

Tags: safety, health, coronavirus, covid 19, lockdown, department of education, government guidelines, reopening, post lockdown

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20th May 2020

Learn something new this lockdown

It's week 9 of lockdown and, even though the rules are being eased little by little, it still feels like I'm constantly searching for new things to do and new ways to keep everyone entertained…

Tags: child development, parenting, circus, coronavirus, lockdown, homeschool, circus skills. things to do

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28th April 2020

Things to do at home during lockdown

As we find ourselves well into the new term at home school, we thought we'd share some tips, exercises and resources to make your new job as "teacher" a little easier. First things first,well…

Tags: parenting, things to do, teaching, coronavirus, lockdown, self isolation, stay at home, perform at home, things to do at home, homeschool, virtual learning, work from home, zoom, online class, homeschooling

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