Above: The last day of the Mamma Mia Easter School, pulling their best Abba poses!!Below: Their lovely smiling faces!!
So after weeks of organising, worrying, contacting Mums, enduring nightmares of studios flooding, it finally happened and despite the lady with the keys for the hall turning up late thus me making a bad impression on the first day, the four day course occurred successfully!
It was the first thing like this I've ever organise, so quite an exciting challenge to embark upon. Luckily, having worked for many dance/theatre schools and holiday schools I have picked up a few different ideas on the best way to run my own course.
We had a show on the last day and I face painted Abba-style flowers for everyone, made sequin hair bands to fit in with the Abba theme all with lights and music. A massive turn out of 50+ parents, siblings, grandparents and friends. Even my Mum and Nan came to support!
I promoted the main school a lot and spotted some potential for new children to carry on training and we advertised to the parents during the show. We had a turn out of 22 children and most didn't already belong to the school, so it gives them a taster into the sort of things we do.
The whole experience has been a massive learning curve and I've been asked to run a Summer School too. I've learnt what not to do next time, to make it run more smoothly and less stressful for me, and other teachers would like to get involved, so there is the possibility of expanding it. What's more it made a profit in the end, so in the business sense it was very successful.
