Children's activity clubs & classes

Welcome to The Potten End Ballet School where we specialise in teaching just ballet of the highest quality to children from two and three-quarter years old all the way through their childhood and teenage years right up to eighteen years old!

And where we also specialise in teaching inspiring Adult Ballet classes to all ages and abilities including "Silver Swans" (please see the Adult Page).

Our Lower School Ballet Classes for our youngest children are taught by Maria Hardcastle and her classes are full of Imagination and Magical fun to capture the young children's own imagination but all with a sound Royal Academy of Dance technique in the background. Maria might take the children on an imaginary "Pirate Ship" one week or into an imaginary "Fairy Land" the next! - the children adore her introduction into the world of Ballet!

Maria is an highly qualified and experienced teacher having graduated from London Studio Centre with a BA (Hons) in Theatre Dance and has a Graduate Diploma in Dance Teaching. Maria is also concurrently The Dance Course Leader at West Herts College.

When our Ballet Pupils are ready to move up to Grade One (about seven yrs old) then Juliet Tschaikowsky (the Principal) takes on the role of teaching all the classes in The Upper School. Juliet is passionate about inspiring our students with wonderful music and choreography and aims to bring a new dimension to every class, sometimes creating a dance specifically for an individual pupil in mind. We aim to inspire with Juliet's Russian training and to pass on a sound Royal Academy of Dance technique.