After school dance club?

[robinsamy]

DD (14) wants to start after school dance club when term starts. She has never shown an interest before but I don't want to put her off.

Kit letter received at end of term says PE kit or loose clothes and "dance shoes or bare feet" - there's the rub! Dance shoes are expensive so my proposal was bare feet - what does everyone think? Don't want to spend a load of money if she is not going to stick it but don't want her to stand out from the crowd?

[balletgirlmum]

We never did dance at school. We did gymnastics in bare feet but we were lucky enough in both junior school & high school to have a dedicated gym.

[Katymac]

yep Yuck!! - maybe spend the £12!!

We have met BGM & I but we live 200 miles apart!! So we aren't ganging up on you....honest

[robinsamy]

haha didn't think it was ganging up!!

BGM - what do you mean dedicated gym?

[balletgirlmum]

It was a room dedicated only to PE , so dudnt double up as a lunch hall etc & it was in an annexe so didnt have lots of kids traipsing through in their dirty outdoor shoes.

[Katymac]

We did in our school too - a big hall just for games/pe separate from the hall for assembly & the hall for Dinner

But in junior school it was one hall for all

[LIZS]

Dd wears jazz shoes for her pe dance class.

[balletgirlmum]

We've now got a marley floor square in our conservatory!

[robinsamy]

We had a sports hall but then an assembly hall where we did dance - the floor was a bit yucky for the reasons described above, the most annoying thing I remember was that the teacher kept her shoes and socks on even though we were not allowed ours....

LIZS - what do the students do who don't have jazz shoes?

[balletgirlmum]

Anyway hope your dd enjoys dance. For now I'm off to watch Gypsy on TV.

[Katymac]

Snap - me too!!

[LIZS]

Dd says barefoot or sports socks.