COVID 19 UPDATE
The Covid-19 pandemic is a fluid situation which has caused us to reevaluate how we can best continue to serve you for the remainder of the spring season. I have consulted with many other studio owners, medical professionals, and my staff, as well as listened to the mandates put in place by Governor Hutchinson and have come up with a plan that I think will help best serve the families of Pride going forward this semester. Again, this situation is fluid so if things change and I need to reevaluate in the future I will do so accordingly.
I am sure you have seen that Arkansas schools are scheduled to remain closed until April 17th, and plan to restart April 20th. This will be 3 weeks out of class. We are planning to follow this initiative and also close our doors for those three weeks.
Our previous semester schedule had the last week of spring semester classes at Pride being the week of May 11th-15th with recital scheduled for May 16th. Since we will be out for 3 weeks, we are going to extend our spring semester 3 additional weeks through June 5th. Further, we are planning to move our recital date to June as well. Currently, it is difficult to get in touch with school recital venue coordinators since schools are closed and it is technically spring break. Our tentative recital date change will be June 5th. Our backup recital date will be June 12th with rehearsal on the 11th. Once we hear back from our venues I will give you our final recital date as soon as possible. I apologize for the recital date change as I know the date has been on everyone's calendars since September. However, during these unprecedented times I feel the recital date change will be best for everyone.
Over the weekend my staff and I will be filming online class content for you to be practicing over the next three weeks at home. You will be able to find this content through your dancestudiopro account. I will e mail you when the material is available. If you need help logging into your dance studio pro account please send me an e-mail and I will be happy to help you! The key will be in staying engaged, active, and participating with us! We can do this together and we are committed to your dance and tumble training. Many studios are moving to the online platform only for the remainder of the year. However, we think combining online training with getting back into class will best best for our students. Extending our spring semester is the best option for us at this time. We believe online training can be a good tool, but cannot be a complete replacement for in studio training.
In regards to tuition moving forward, our tuition schedule will remain the same for April and May. You will be charged April and May as scheduled, and will not be charged in June. Here is our reasoning. Since we will be missing 3 weeks in April and extending our spring semester those 3 weeks, we will be having the same amount of class with a 3 week hiatus. Again, this is an unprecedented time and we are trying to navigate the best possible way! Please reach out with any questions or concerns.
We pride ourselves in keeping our class sizes small and limiting them to a max of 12 people. However, there may be a few classes we feel it is best we split into two smaller classes for the remainder of the year. If this effects you, your class will get an individual e-mail letting you know our plans to split.
Costume Ordering! We need your help! We will need your help measuring your child for recital costumes and taking costume payments online. I will send you a costume measuring tutorial for each class and give you step by step information. We can't wait to see your babies up there on stage and will make sure they get the most perfect costume for them.
Once classes resume there are a few extra precautions we will be taking to protect our staff and students:
-no one is allowed to come to Pride if they have traveled in the past 14 days
-our studio will be a drop off only, as we urge family members not to stay in lobby. Staff will be assisting with drop off and pickup and help your students in and out of the building. Students 6 and under will be permitted to have one family member stay with them if necessary. This is to help keep the number of people in our studio small.
-our studio has been completely disinfected and we remain committed to keeping it this way. Further, ballet barres/door handles/panel mats will be wiped down and cleaned in between classes
Our summer schedule is up and active and will remain the same. The only changes we will make is we will cancel week 1 of the technique intensive to accommodate our extended spring schedule. Further, we will move our company auditions to a later date. Stay tuned, we will e-mail shortly what date that will be.
Again, thank you for choosing Pride and we look forward to continue to serve you during this time!
Company members, please look out for an additional information regarding training opportunities over this break and competition updates.
Thank you,
--
McKenzi Walker
The Covid-19 pandemic is a fluid situation which has caused us to reevaluate how we can best continue to serve you for the remainder of the spring season. I have consulted with many other studio owners, medical professionals, and my staff, as well as listened to the mandates put in place by Governor Hutchinson and have come up with a plan that I think will help best serve the families of Pride going forward this semester. Again, this situation is fluid so if things change and I need to reevaluate in the future I will do so accordingly.
I am sure you have seen that Arkansas schools are scheduled to remain closed until April 17th, and plan to restart April 20th. This will be 3 weeks out of class. We are planning to follow this initiative and also close our doors for those three weeks.
Our previous semester schedule had the last week of spring semester classes at Pride being the week of May 11th-15th with recital scheduled for May 16th. Since we will be out for 3 weeks, we are going to extend our spring semester 3 additional weeks through June 5th. Further, we are planning to move our recital date to June as well. Currently, it is difficult to get in touch with school recital venue coordinators since schools are closed and it is technically spring break. Our tentative recital date change will be June 5th. Our backup recital date will be June 12th with rehearsal on the 11th. Once we hear back from our venues I will give you our final recital date as soon as possible. I apologize for the recital date change as I know the date has been on everyone's calendars since September. However, during these unprecedented times I feel the recital date change will be best for everyone.
Over the weekend my staff and I will be filming online class content for you to be practicing over the next three weeks at home. You will be able to find this content through your dancestudiopro account. I will e mail you when the material is available. If you need help logging into your dance studio pro account please send me an e-mail and I will be happy to help you! The key will be in staying engaged, active, and participating with us! We can do this together and we are committed to your dance and tumble training. Many studios are moving to the online platform only for the remainder of the year. However, we think combining online training with getting back into class will best best for our students. Extending our spring semester is the best option for us at this time. We believe online training can be a good tool, but cannot be a complete replacement for in studio training.
In regards to tuition moving forward, our tuition schedule will remain the same for April and May. You will be charged April and May as scheduled, and will not be charged in June. Here is our reasoning. Since we will be missing 3 weeks in April and extending our spring semester those 3 weeks, we will be having the same amount of class with a 3 week hiatus. Again, this is an unprecedented time and we are trying to navigate the best possible way! Please reach out with any questions or concerns.
We pride ourselves in keeping our class sizes small and limiting them to a max of 12 people. However, there may be a few classes we feel it is best we split into two smaller classes for the remainder of the year. If this effects you, your class will get an individual e-mail letting you know our plans to split.
Costume Ordering! We need your help! We will need your help measuring your child for recital costumes and taking costume payments online. I will send you a costume measuring tutorial for each class and give you step by step information. We can't wait to see your babies up there on stage and will make sure they get the most perfect costume for them.
Once classes resume there are a few extra precautions we will be taking to protect our staff and students:
-no one is allowed to come to Pride if they have traveled in the past 14 days
-our studio will be a drop off only, as we urge family members not to stay in lobby. Staff will be assisting with drop off and pickup and help your students in and out of the building. Students 6 and under will be permitted to have one family member stay with them if necessary. This is to help keep the number of people in our studio small.
-our studio has been completely disinfected and we remain committed to keeping it this way. Further, ballet barres/door handles/panel mats will be wiped down and cleaned in between classes
Our summer schedule is up and active and will remain the same. The only changes we will make is we will cancel week 1 of the technique intensive to accommodate our extended spring schedule. Further, we will move our company auditions to a later date. Stay tuned, we will e-mail shortly what date that will be.
Again, thank you for choosing Pride and we look forward to continue to serve you during this time!
Company members, please look out for an additional information regarding training opportunities over this break and competition updates.
Thank you,
--
McKenzi Walker