Twinkle-toed dance trio tutu good
A trio of dancers from a dance school in South Staffordshire are pirouetting their way to top results in exams.
Charlotte-Anne Smith, aged 16, Eve Taylor, aged eight, and Katie Quimby, aged 18, are celebrating excelling in 14 months of ballet examinations completed earlier this year.
The three dancers perform with Chrystie Theatre Arts at Great Wyrley Community Centre and Cheslyn Hay Parish Hall.
Both Katie, a Birmingham University student from Hawks Green, Cannock, and Charlotte-Anne, of Bloxwich, Walsall, are graduate dance teachers.
Eve, of Cheslyn Hay, achieved 92 per cent in one exam.
Principal Christina Powis said: "I'm very proud of all of them. They work so hard in the school to establish excellent results, but at the same time we have fun.
"I'm really extremely proud of them, they have achieved such wonderful standards. The pupils are fantastic and do me proud every time."
Over the course of 14 months of examinations, 90 pupils trained hard and took 550 tests.
The culmination was a presentation of awards at the Prince of Wales Centre, in Cannock.
All pupils continued the dance school's 100 per cent pass rate and most were awarded marks between 80 per cent and 92 per cent maintaining the high standard of achievement.
The awards were also arranged to raise money for Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital, in London. The event raised more than £450.
The school was founded by Mrs Powis in July 1965 in Bloxwich to give both children and adults a thorough training in all styles of theatre dance.
Subjects studied at the school are classical ballet, tap dancing, theatre craft, modern jazz, dance exercise, freestyle, musical theatre and national dance. Pupils study the International Dance Teachers Association syllabus.
The age of dance pupils ranges from three years to adult.
