IMPORTANT DATES

• Sun. Mar. 6 – Sat. Mar 12 – Virtual Parent Viewing Week #2
• Sun. Mar. 13 – Sat. Mar 19 – Studio Closed for March Break, except for March Break Day Camp
• Sun. Mar. 6 – Sat. Mar 12 – Virtual Parent Viewing Week #2
• Mon. Mar 14 – Fri. Mar 18 – March Break Camp – Dancing Through the Decades Theme
• Fri. Apr 15 – Studio Closed for Good Friday
• Sat. Apr 16 – Studio OPEN – all classes running
• Sun. Apr. 17 – Studio Closed for Easter Sunday
• Mon. Apr. 18 – Studio Closed for Easter Monday
• Mon. May 23 – Studio Closed for Victoria Day
• Fri. June 3 – PA Day Camp – Tangled Themed
• Sat. June 11 – Last Day of Classes in Term 2
• Mon. June 13 – First Day of Classes in Summer Session 1
• Mon. July 25 – First Day of Classes in Summer Session 2

Virtual Parent Viewing Week

Our VIRTUAL parent viewing week starts this Sunday, March 6th and runs until Saturday, March 12th.

There are 4 easy steps for you to follow to view your family’s classes virtually next week:

1. Log into our parent/student portal
2. Scroll down on the dashboard until you get to “My Schedule”
3. Find the class you want to log into
4. Click the blue link for that class, and Zoom should launch from there to bring you into our virtual waiting room!

Parents will be in our virtual waiting room until the teacher admits them into the classroom. Please keep in mind that it takes us a few minutes to clear the prior class and get the next class physically into the studio, so parents will see a delay from the actual class start time.

IMPORTANT: Any parents joining our virtual parent viewing classes are asked to:

• join the meeting WITHOUT VIDEO
• stay on MUTE for the class
• join the meeting using the last name of your dancer
• join promptly – we will add in all virtual parent viewers as soon as we start up the class from the virtual waiting room. Joining later can be disruptive to the flow of the class.

If you/your dancer is currently enrolled in 1st term (Sept-Dec) they are automatically enrolled for 2nd term (Jan-June) so no one loses their spot in our academic year programming, unless a family has emailed to let us know they aren’t continuing. Second term tuition fees were posted to family accounts early in November and are due by Sunday, December 5th, after which the system will automatically apply a $20 late fee. Payments can be made through the parent portal with a credit card, or by e-transfer sent to the dance school’s email address (nldc@northlondondancecentre.ca).

As the provincial government continues to gradually ease public health restrictions, the following changes were effective March 1, 2022:

We have switched to passive screening, meaning our electronic screening form no longer needs to be submitted prior to entering the facility. Please
continue to stay home if you have any covid-19 symptoms, are not feeling well in general, or if you should be isolating for any reason.

• Proof of vaccination will no longer need to be shown prior to entry
• Students & parents no longer need to queue outside the front of the building prior to entry. If there’s space in the lobby when you arrive, please come in, place your outdoor shoes on a rack, and get ready for class.
• Students will no longer bring their jackets & outdoor clothing into class with them. Parents of small children can either keep their items with you or use a cubby in the dancer’s waiting room. Older dancers should use the cubbies.

All other precautions remain in place, including:

• Masks are mandatory to enter and exit the building (worn over both nose & mouth) for everyone ages 2 and up, and students can optionally remove them
  while in the studio dancing.
• Staff will always be masked
• Hand sanitizer is available in all areas of the studio

Given that our lobby is small, please consider limiting to one parent per family during our busiest times. If there aren’t any seats available in the lobby when you arrive, please consider staying to watch on a different day.

Ms. Alexia’s Saturday 10:30 am Dance Readiness & Saturday 11:15 am Primary & Level 1 Commercial Hip Hop classes will continue to enter & exit from the rear of the building to help with congestion in the front lot. These dancers will still wait for the class before them to exit the studio before they enter.

Buns are Best & Uniforms

A friendly reminder that all ballet & acro students should wear a proper, ‘dancers bun’ to their classes, unless their haircut is very short. No idea what a dancer’s bun is? Check out this great how-to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMj_eaRML1w Wearing your hair in a bun ensures that students can concentrate on what is most important in class – learning and developing a love for dance! You can purchase a bun kit for $5.00 at the desk if you need supplies.

All children in our Dance Development to Level 12 classes should also be wearing their uniform to class each week. The two dancewear stores that generally keep our uniform in stock are Dancewear Plus and Pointe & Pick.

Class Spotlight – Acro

Have a young dancer with us who also likes to be upside down? 😀 We have space for our current students who would like to add ACRO to their schedule in our Sunday classes from now to June 11, if they are in our pre-primary levels or above. Email the studio today if you would like to add acro to your dancer’s spring schedule.

Parking Lot Reminder

We still have quite a large snow pile taking up a few spots in the front lot, but please do not park in front of our neighbouring businesses in the spots that are marked reserved for their customers when they are open. There are also 60+ spots behind our building you are welcome to use and then walk around to the front.

Easter Weekend

Easter weekend the studio will be closed on the Friday (April 15), Sunday (April 17) and Monday (April 18), but OPEN for all regular classes on Saturday, April 16th.

PA Day Dance Camp – June 3

Limited spots are still left in our Tangled-themed PA Day Dance Camp on Friday, June 3rd. Register online today at www.northlondondancecentre.ca/camps and have your child spend the day moving with Ms. Alexia & Ms. MacKenzie.

Summer Dance Classes

This summer we are offering two, 6-week sessions of dance classes for ages 2-9 and adult students. Students are welcome to register using the parent portal under FIND CLASSES. A heads up that the adult classes specifically are filling quickly.

As always, thank you for trusting us with your family’s dance education. We know you have other choices, and we’re glad you’re with us. We thank you for your support. ☺

Thank YOU

As always, thank you for trusting us with your family’s dance education. We know you have other choices, and we’re glad you’re with us. We thank you for your support. ☺

Kelly Hajar, Director