WOW what a first week! So many new and eager faces, along with a few nervous ones, and of course our last year’s students were so excited to be back. If you are new, I hope your child enjoyed their classes this week.

This will be the last newsletter of the year but we still have lots of information for you to read and take note. But let us start with the many congratulations for this week’s performances.

As the term draws to a close it is a great time to reflect on so many achievements over the year. We have staged four musicals, three plays, two FTV Screenings and achieved great results in all of our eisteddfods entered. Now all we have left is our Mini Dance Concert and our Neverland Dance Concert to stage as well as the last Get the Beat Finals competition for the year, held on the Sunshine Coast. In the last week of term we will celebrate and reward the achievements of our students and teachers at our Awards ceremonies. We can start looking forward to a fun and relaxing holiday.

What an incredible week it has been! We saw the final week of Lion King, celebrated our graduation of our Year 12 College students, the studio was busy with rehearsals for Neverland and plans were made for our Awards evening. We are very close to finalising our timetable for next year so hopefully this will be released with next week’s newsletter, and you can start enrolling for 2022!

What an incredible week! It saw the opening of Lion King, the announcement of us winning the Bulletin’s competition for the best Dance school on the Gold Coast and another success story for one of our students.

This week sees the opening of the long-awaited production of Lion King! Lots of excitement is around the studio at the moment, not only with this production, but the upcoming ones as well. Changes in some class times has occurred to accommodate all the extra rehearsals for Lion King, Neverland and the filming for our Film Screening night.

Hope you all had some fun during Halloween week. Some great efforts were put into dressing up here at NAPA, especially from our canteen lady, Kristie, who not only dressed up herself but decorated our canteen area to set the atmosphere. This week saw our production of The Game performed and now we are getting ready for The Lion King. At NAPA there is always something to celebrate or look forward to.

Saturday saw the final performance of 13 The Musical and Sunday the bump-in of The Game. Rehearsals and preparations are underway for our Neverland Concert, the Awards night and Movie World’s White Christmas Parade! It certainly is our busiest time of the year! Hope you are all enjoying the numerous performances we provide during the year.

Another wonderful week at NAPA – shows, rehearsals, training, indoor and outdoor game playing, and above all – lots of laughter.

We hope you all have had a great break and ready to engage in lots of what is happening at NAPA in the last term! With so much going on, we do ask that you are vigilant in staying informed through our newsletter, emails and our Facebook pages to ensure your child is at all scheduled rehearsals and are well prepared to meet all requirements. Schedules are tight, but that is because our performances have been moved due to COVID lockdowns during the year. Back-to-back shows is not ideal, but we were determined not to cancel any of them so that our students get the opportunity to shine on stage.

This is the last newsletter until next term, so we wish you all a wonderful holiday. Many of our cherubs and teachers will definitely need this rest period after all the shows we have done recently!! For everyone else, rest up in readiness for the shows you are about to perform in!

What a week this has been! With only one more week to go before the holidays we are packing in so much into these last two weeks, due to some changes of dates during COVID lockdowns. However, despite the pressure of staging so much close together, we are still achieving awesome results, as you can see in this newsletter.

This has been a week of great achievements by our Performance Teams and their teachers as you have probably seen on our Facebook page! They have not only gained outstanding results at the Gold Coast Eisteddfod but the feedback from judicators, staff and audience members on their behaviour, their attitudes and how well they all presented themselves in their uniforms and costumes, was outstanding. At NAPA we value this as just as important as the level of performance they gave. I hope you are all feeling not only proud of these performers and their teachers but also feeling proud to be part of our NAPA Family.

This has been a week of great achievements by our Performance Teams and their teachers as you have probably seen on our Facebook page! They have not only gained outstanding results at the Gold Coast Eisteddfod but the feedback from judicators, staff and audience members on their behaviour, their attitudes and how well they all presented themselves in their uniforms and costumes, was outstanding. At NAPA we value this as just as important as the level of performance they gave. I hope you are all feeling not only proud of these performers and their teachers but also feeling proud to be part of our NAPA Family.

The week has been filled with rehearsals for productions and the eisteddfod. Changes of dates for all of these has been difficult to navigate but the support we have had from everyone has been incredible; getting children to extra rehearsals, changing other plans to attend the new dates, changing tickets, re-blocking of dances and productions due to some of our students over the border ... the list goes on! It has certainly proven how flexible and resilient our NAPA families and staff are! Thank you everyone for doing your part! The first couple of days of the Eisteddfod has already been a great success, the kids smashed it! Check out the outstanding results – great job everyone who performed this weekend we are so proud of you.

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We hope our happy NAPA news cheers you all up during lockdown.

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We hope the COVID restrictions have not been too challenging for you all, especially those of you who live over the border, our thoughts are with you as you battle hold-ups at the border. We appreciate the effort you are making to ger your children to their classes as we don’t want them missing their preparation for productions and shows. This week features the opening of Abigail’s Coven and final polishing of eisteddfod numbers in readiness for the Gold Coast Eisteddfods next week.