This half term, Year 6 were lucky enough to have the Elmhurst Ballet Company visit school and lead a ballet workshop. Consisting of graduate students from Elmhurst Ballet School, based in Edgbaston, pupils were divided into groups, performed movement as characters from The Birmingham Royal Ballet’s ‘The Nutcracker’ and were offered the chance too try on the costumes from the famous ballet. The graduates leading the workshop offered a Q&A session, giving pupils the chance to hear what it is like to work in a ballet company and even go to school in another country. This was accompanied by a beautiful ‘pas de deux’ performance by graduates who were in ‘the Nutcracker’ last year at the Birmingham Hippodrome.