RND Academy of Dance - Presentation Evening

Please follow this link to see a record of those pupils who have been presented with the award for
‘Most Improved Performer’

HIGHEST EXAMINATION SCORES

After every examination session Rachael, Nichola and Donna like to announce the pupil who achieved the highest grade in each discipline. Starting from January 2014 Rachael, Nichola and Donna decided to celebrate the success of these individuals by issuing a trophy at the presentation evening. Pupils will keep the trophy until the next examination session; at which point they will pass it on to the next worthy recipient.

Please follow this link to see a record of those pupils who have achieved the highest scores in each discipline in each of our previous examination sessions.
'Highest Examination Scores'

NEW IN 2017
At our presentation evening in April 2017 we decided to add two new trophies that will be awarded each year:

DANCE PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR

This is a peoples choice award, where dancers and aprents are asked to nominate somebody from the school. We then publish all the nominations and parents and pupils are asked to vote for their preffered winner. Dancers can be nominated for any reason such as.... excellent performance, being kind and helpful, continuous effoet, comitment and perseverence etc....)

TEACHERS SCHOLARSHIP AWARD
We also introduced a new award that recognises excellent technical ability, high quality performance skills and a high level of potential within the field of dance.
The winners/winners will be selectd by RND Academy of Dance teaching staff and will entitle the winner to half price lessons for 12 months.

PRESENTATION EVENING 1
FRIDAY 11^th DECEMBER 2009

This was our first ever presentation evening and it was a great success, with all pupils delighted with their achievements and many proud parents.

We would like to thank the Post 16 pupils of Kingsley College for providing the refreshments for our presentation evening. The pupils were taking part in a programme called World Challenge, where by which they visit a developing country for 3 weeks to provide help and assistance in the local community. However, prior to their expedition each pupil had to raise £2,000 - £3,000 to fund the trip and to buy the necessary materials to complete tasks such as building an orphanage.

RND Academy of Dance would like to thank all of the parents, friends and family of our pupils for supporting this charity and digging deep for their cause.

TOTAL MONEY RAISED = £187

PRESENTATION EVENING 2
FRIDAY 14^th JANUARY 2011

As with the previous year RND Academy of Dance linked with the 6^th form pupils from Kingsley College who provided refreshments and organised a raffle. This year the pupils were part of the International Baccalaureate programme and were raising money to help an orphanage in Bulgaria. Their aim was to raise a total of £6,000 to help with restorations at the orphanage. This year we sold tickets priced at £1 each too ease with congestion on the evening and all monies raised was donated to charity.

TOTAL MONEY RAISED = £278

PRESENTATION EVENING 3
FRIDAY 20^th JANUARY 2012

Another great evening where pupils displayed some of their examination work for parents. This year we donated only ticket sales to charity as we did not have refreshments, all monies were donated to a charity that was a little more close to our hearts; Sands – The stillbirth and neonatal death charity.

This Charity is an organisation which offers support when a baby dies during pregnancy or after birth. Sands has 3 core aims and these are to support anyone affected by the death of a baby; to work in partnership with health professionals to improve the quality of care and services offered to bereaved families; and to promote research and changes in practice that could help to reduce the loss of babies lives.

Should you need the support of Sands please contact them by calling 020 7436 5881

If you would like to further support this charity please donate at the following web address http://www.justgiving.com/thomasgardiner2011?ref=nf

TOTAL MONEY RAISED = £108

PRESENTATION EVENING 4
FRIDAY 25th May 2012

Yet again pupils displayed some of their examinations work for family and friends. We saw great performances from all of whom achieved the highest marks in Ballet, Tap and Freestyle classes respectively.

Another charity benefited from the kind donations of our parents with all ticket money being donated to charity. This time the decision was made to support a friend of ours who was raising money for The Primrose Hospice following the sad loss of her father to Asbestos related cancer earlier this year.

Primrose Hospice Centre of Care is an independent charity, offering advice and support to patients living with life limiting illnesses and their families in the North Worcestershire area.

For more information please see www.primrosehospice.org

TOTAL MONEY RAISED = £150

PRESENTATION EVENING 5
Christmas Performance
SATURDAY 15^th DECEMBER 2012

Yet again a great evening where pupils displayed some of their recent class work in a christmas performance for friends and family. The aim of the evening was not only to allow parents to see the work our dancers have been doing in lessons but another opportunity to raise money for a worthy cause. This year Rianne Hawkins in our senior class suggested we help support a charity her mother and close family friends were involved with for Alzheimers in the under 50's.

All ticket sales were donated to the charity and RND pupils and parents helped to raise £200 for Alzheimers Charity, a cheque was presented on the evening to Mrs Hawkins.

TOTAL MONEY RAISED = £200

PRESENTATION EVENING 6
SATURDAY 7th SEPTEMBER 2013

Another evening in which we celebrated pupil success and supported a local charity. This time the designated charity was suggested another of our senior students, Melissa Yates. Melissa asked that we support 'The African Maternity Health Link' chartiy. This is a charity organised by Midwives at the Alexandra Hospital who link with Lumley Hospital in Freetown Sierra Leone with the aim of improving birth outcomes through education and training.

For more information about this charity and it's work please click here
or see the following link:
http://www.theafricanmaternityhealthlink.co.uk

TOTAL MONEY RAISED = £120

PRESENTATION EVENING 7
SATURDAY 11th JANUARY 2014
Pupils successes were celebrated whilst also supporting a nominated charity. Bryony and Chloe Ellis and family requested that this year we support the Meningitis Research Foundation. The charity not only does great work in the research and development of treatment for meningitis; but also raises awareness of the life threatening condition as well as supporting the families of those who have suffered this illness. A great big thank you to all our pupils and their families for AGAIN helping us to raise money for this charity please see the following link for more information:

http://www.meningitis.org/

TOTAL MONEY RAISED £150

PRESENTATION EVENING 8
SATURDAY 10th JANUARY 2015
The charity of choice this year has been the Britsih Lung Foundation; as requested by Jessica and Ellie Fisher and family. The main roles of this charity are to support people who have lung disease, their families and carers. They raise awareness of lung disease at both local and national level, campaign to make lung disease a priority for the UK government and work with the NHS, local authorities and the voluntary sector to improve and develop local services. We are pleased to announce that again thanks to the generosity of our dancers friends and family we have donated £150 towards this worthwhile cause.

http://www.blf.org.uk/Home

TOTAL MONEY RAISED £150

PRESENTATION EVENING 9
SATURDAY 11th JULY 2015

This evening's choice of charity come from Tessy Hawkesford and family, one of our Friday pupils. Jasper's Rainbow is a charity set up in memory of their son and Tessy's litte brother who was unfortunately born with internal complications which led to his very short lived life. Jasper's Rainbow has raised in excess of £12,000 to date and we are pleased to be able to add to their total this evening by donating ticket sales and money raised though a raffle - as always the parents, friends and family of the RND Academy of Dance pupils have been super generous.

Jaspers's Rainbow supports three main charities Edwards Trust, South Warwickshire Hospital and Sands (whom we have supported in previous presentation evenings).

Please see the attached video link to the families amazing charlity cycle completed in 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=UZOODd2C554&app=desktop

https://www.facebook.com/jaspersrainbow

TOTAL MONEY RAISED £200

https://home.justgiving.com/?take=10

PRESENTATION EVENING 10
SATURDAY 19th MARCH 2016

We had no nominations this year from parents so Rachael and Nichola decided to support ex-pupil Alicia Fielder in her bid to raise money, awareness and her very thoughtful and kind gesture of donating her hair to The Princess Trust. The charity make wigs for those children who have lost their hair to cancer and each wig costs approximately £350 to make. We are very proud to have helped Alicia raise over £600 for the charity.
Well done Alicia a super kind and thoughtful thing to do for those much less fortunate than ourselves and thank you once again to the RND pupils, parents, friends and family for helping us to raise money for such a worthy cause.

TOTAL MONEY RAISED = £200

https://www.justgiving.com/Alison-Fielder1

http://redditchstandard.co.uk/news/redditch-alicia-lets-long-locks-go-others/

PRESENTATION EVENING 11
Saturday 8th March 2017

We had lots of nominations this year so therefore decided to allow the parents and pupils to vote for the charity they wanted most to support. The vote went overwhelmingly in the favour of The Birminghams Children's Hospital. Within a week of us hosting the presentation evening we heard news of an amazing challenge a former pupils was embarking on. Josie James had been a member of RND Academy of Dance for 2-3 years when unfortunaley on the day of our summer showcase, while playing in the park she was bitten on the face by a dog. Josie wanted to give something back to the hospital and staff who helpoed her with her recovery and decided to swim half a mile in a bid to raise money for The childrens hospital. We were delighted to be able to support both Josie and the hospital with our latest fundraising.

TOTAL MONEY RAISED = £250

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Samantha-James10