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At the Riverside Day Nursery, Windsor we run a variety of extra-curricular activities to broaden the children’s skills and help them find and nurture new talents.

One of the classes we offer is Twinkle Tots Dance, a ballet class for pre-schoolers. Twinkle Tots have been coming to the Riverside Day nursery for over ten years. The ballet classes are for children age two and up and take place on a Thursday morning with qualified dance teacher, Miss Aimee.

Twinkle Tots was established in 2006 by professional ballerina and Royal Academy of Dance teacher, Maggie Purr, who has always been passionate about bringing the magic of dance to young people.

Maggie says: “All our classes are imagination-based, using fun stories, props, illustrations and classical music specially arranged for pre-school age children. The classes gradually introduce the children to the fundamentals of ballet technique, helping develop co-ordination, good posture, strength and suppleness.”

Ballet is also ideal for encouraging self-discipline, musicality, self-expression and spatial awareness. The classes also help support the children’s listening skills, instruction following and how to work on their own and with others.

Twinkle Tots Dance classes started with five children in Windsor and has grown to almost two hundred pupils across Berkshire, Buckinghamshire Surrey, Lincolnshire and Rutland.

If you would like your little one to join Twinkle Tots Dance, please talk to Nikita, our Nursery Manager for further information and fee details.

Also, if your child would like to take more ballet classes a week or would like to continue their ballet once they start school, Twinkle Tots also run Saturday classes at Clewer Youth and Community Centre, Parsonage Lane in Windsor where they offer RAD ballet examination classes for children age four and over. You can enroll online at www.twinkletotsdance.com