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PURE Families, PURE is very excited to share with you our innovative, creative, age appropriate, and FUN early years program: Bloom & Grow! This new program is dedicated to giving your little ones the tools needed to express themselves creatively in a nurturing environment. Your child’s early years development is a responsibility PURE takes very seriously as we strive to nurture curiosity, encourage safe and healthy relationships and foster strong emotional growth. Thank you for entrusting PURE with the privilege to learn and grow in the arts with your child. We are excited to see your young ones blossom during these delicate formative years. Our Philosophy & Benefits to the Student When you give your child an arts education at an early age, you are investing in your child’s future. Bloom & Grow is designed to develop your child’s cognitive and physical abilities while simultaneously developing your child’s self-confidence, problem-solving abilities, coordination, body awareness, social skills, discipline, respect and self-worth. Bloom & Grow offers your little one age 18 months to 5 years, a strong foundation for not only future dance but future success in all areas everyday life. In addition, your child’s gross and fine motor skills are consistently developed through our thoughtfully designed and tested syllabus. Below are just a few exercises within Bloom & Grow that are designed to develop the skills mentioned above. Gross Motor Skills: Travelling around the room, Marches, Jumps, Bounces, Sways, Stretching Fine Motor Skills: Pointing and Flexing, Grasping Shakers/Scarves, Finger Points, Ballet hand/arm exercises.ThePUREPerspective

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Bloom & Grow Levels Our program is divided into 3 different levels, catering to your dancers age and ability. Our syllabus will challenge your child and provide seamless transitions through each level. If your child fits in one of our age ranges and has a willingness to learn, then they are ready to experience our magical Bloom & Grow early years dance training! Below is a brief description of each level – Tiny Seeds, Little Sprouts & Dancing Daisies!

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AGE: 18 Months – 2 Years old

Tiny Seeds classes are designed to be the vessel by which your child will discover, create, and have fun, all while taking their first steps in self-expression. Your role in this class as a parent is to be the captain of your child’s ship and our instructors are like lighthouses that guide the way for you to safely and effectively navigate your dance experience at PURE.

This syllabus is designed to spark your child’s love for movement and develop a sense of wonder, while simultaneously accenting developmental milestones. Be prepared to move with your dancer each week in the classroom as you enrich the bond between you and your “Tiny Seed”. Towards the end of this class your Tiny Seed will begin to learn and sprout into an independent dancer. Part 1 and 2 are designed to allow your child to become comfortable and familiar with the syllabus and fall in love with moving to the music. This class is offered in terms: Term 1 goes from September to December (11 weeks). Term 2 goes from January to May (17 weeks). In order for your Tiny Seed to experience all of the benefits of Bloom & Grow we recommend both term 1 and 2.

Ages: 2-3 Years old

This class is designed to transition younger students into a new learning environment. “Little Sprouts” syllabus begins by incorporating exercises from the “Tiny Seeds” program allowing your dancer to feel confident and comfortable in their new classroom setting. This class progresses to cover basic dance vocabulary, a combination of ballet, creative movement, jazz, obstacles and games. Dancers will develop coordination, classroom etiquette, listening skills, special awareness and dance technique through songs, dance and games. With an emphasis on play and fun, this class prepares students for the more structured classes to come in their following years. Your young dancer will also learn a routine to be performed at the year-end recital in June to show off some of their new skills. This class is offered in Full term and Half term: Full Term goes from September to Early June with one recital routine and Half Term goes from January to May with NO recital routine.

Age: 4 - 5 Years old

With guidance from our educated staff and your child’s new found confidence and expressive personality, Dancing Daisies permits you to choose with your child from a number of combo classes and styles of dance. The emphasis in “Dancing Daisies” is on dance technique, while continuing to strengthen listening, spacing and focusing skills. Students will learn the Al Gilbert Primary Tap Syllabus, BADT Pre Primary Ballet syllabus and a wide range of Jazz and Hip Hop vocabulary suited to each class’s abilities and learning needs. Dancing Daisies will prepare a routine to be performed at the Christmas show and the year-end show in June. These classes are offered Full term and have many varieties of combinations including: * Pre Ballet/Tap * Pre Ballet/ Jazz * Pre Jazz/ Hip hop

Bloom & Grow Concepts

*Playing with Creativity * Exploring Critical Thinking * Active Learning When your child has the opportunity to play with ideas in different scenarios, they discover connections and explore new ways of understanding their world. Creative analogies and dance imagery are built into our syllabus which allows us to open up your child’s imagination. Examples of this include learning basic movements such as balancing on one leg, jumping or even moving from a seated to a standing position by pretending to be a flamingo, kangaroo or even a flower growing from a seed to a daisy. These thought processes help our dancers connect their dance to the world around them. Dancers will explore dance and music through the aid of props such as scarfs, shakers, teddy bears, hula-hoops etc. Incorporating these elements helps our dance educators deliver about the foundations of dance and movement to your child in fun and stimulating way. Playing with peers is important for a child’s development of social skills, sharing and communication. In Bloom & Grow, we use play and games to teach the dancers basic rules and principles as well as dance movement. For example, having all dancers sit on the floor in a circle and stretch their legs in front of them is a way to teach body alignment, muscle control, muscle flexibility, following instructions etc. For the child, it is described all through dance imagery and the idea of making a flower. PURE Dance Educators With all of these tools in place, it is important to know when your child is ready for more challenges. Directors Corey Mariuz (B.A & M.A Specializing in Dance) Melissa Colman (B.A in Movement Science) and Early Years Coordinator Holly Holmes (B.A in Science) are Bloom & Grow’s developers. Together, they have drawn on their academic knowledge and rich dance history to shape the Bloom & Grow syllabus and dance educator training program which ensures each Bloom & Grow dancer is successful within our program. All PURE staff are equipped with the resources necessary to motivate, inspire, encourage and examine each student individually as well as the classroom as a whole in order to tailor your child’s dance program to his/her specific learning needs.

Dress Code

Bloom & Grow dancers are encouraged to wear clothing in which they can move comfortably and express their personality.

Below are some guidelines that should be followed:

● Little Seeds & Little Sprouts - Ballet based outfit. Ballet slippers on the feet.

● Ballet - Bodysuit, tights, ballet shoes and

hair up & off the face. Ballet slippers on the feet.

● Tap - Can remain in Ballet attire. Tap shoes

on the feet.

● Jazz - Can remain in Ballet attire if in Ballet/Jazz combo. Jazz shoes or slippers on the feet. If in a jazz/hip hop combo, can wear fitted and fun dancewear.

● Hip Hop - Use your imagination dancers

can wear whatever they feel ready to dance in, please bring your dancer with indoor running shoes.