<p>We loved Fire Drills which were always so exciting and after lights out.  Nothing however prepared us for performing tap dance routines with John Noakes and Roy Castle on our own theatre.</p>

We loved Fire Drills which were always so exciting and after lights out. Nothing however prepared us for performing tap dance routines with John Noakes and Roy Castle on our own theatre.

<p>We loved Fire Drills which were always so exciting and after lights out.&nbsp; Nothing however prepared us for performing tap dance routines with John Noakes and Roy Castle on our own theatre.</p>

Fire Drills & Blue Peter recording at the School - episode 17

Arms Out Like Wings is an anecdotal memoir about my seven years spent in a ballet boarding school from 1969 to 1976 aged nine to seventeen.  A ‘Pygmalion-esque’ story that takes me from my crowded, loving council house home of siblings, cockney, lorry driver Dad and Italian seamstress Mother, to a Rolls Royce gliding through London, tinkling piano music in corridors and marquees on the lawn.  This book will give you an insight into a young ballet dancers life.  The initial spark, training, literal blood sweat and tears, close friendships, pranks, pain, disappointment, injury, romance and sacrifices.

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Arms Out Like Wings is an anecdotal memoir about my seven years spent in a ballet boarding school from 1969 to 1976 aged nine to seventeen. A ‘Pygmalion-esque’ story that takes me from my crowded, loving council house home of siblings, cockney, lorry driver Dad and Italian seamstress Mother, to a Rolls Royce gliding through London, tinkling piano music in corridors and marquees on the lawn. This book will give you an insight into a young ballet dancers life. The initial spark, training, literal blood sweat and tears, close friendships, pranks, pain, disappointment, injury, romance and sacrifices.

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Fire Drills & Blue Peter recording at the School - episode 17

Fire Drills & Blue Peter recording at the School - episode 17