Ballet

Ages: 7 -11 and 8 – 12

Day: Tuesday

Grade 1 Level (ages 7-11) 4.45pm–5.45pm

Grade 2 Level (ages 8-12) 5.45pm–6.45pm

Fee: £5 (1-hour class)

Fee with Bursary: £2.50 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts’ Ballet sessions begin with a warm-up at the barre, performing exercises to stretch and strengthen the muscles.
Dancers practice various ballet movements and techniques, such as pliés, tendu, and pirouette, jumps, leaps, and allegro combinations developing their agility and coordination.
The Ballet tutor provides guidance on posture, alignment, and expression, emphasizing the precision and grace that characterize ballet.
A cool-down and stretching exercises bring the session to a close.
Key Skills: Posture and alignment, basic positioning, coordination and musicality, balance and control

Drama

Ages: 7 – 11

Day: Saturday

Time: 9.30 am – 10.30 am

Fee: £5 (1-hour class)

Fee with Bursary: £2.50 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts’ Drama sessions explore different acting techniques such as improvisation, script work, and character development, such as developing skills in adapting your physicality to truly embody a character.
In our sessions you will build confidence and storytelling skills through dynamic workshops and performances. You will work on monologues, duologues, and scenes, as well as developing work in collaboration with others as an ensemble.
Whether you’re aspiring to become a professional actor or simply looking to boost your public speaking skills, these classes are the perfect fit for you.
Key Skills: Acting, improvisation, script analysis, characterisation, stage presence, vocal projection, ensemble drama and collaboration.

Animation

Ages: 7 – 11

Day: Saturday

Time: 9.45 am – 11.15 am

Fee: £7.50 (90-minute class)

Fee with Bursary: £3.75 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts’ Animation sessions will explore the fundamentals of animation, including storyboarding, and character design.
You will use digital tools to create 2D and stop-motion animations, fostering creativity and technical skills.
You’ll get the opportunity to bring your characters to life while learning essential skills such as design, lighting, modelling, surfacing, and visual effects.
Drawing, illustration, and graphic design software are used to enhance the creative process. Under the guidance of our skilled instructor, you’ll learn the motion animation fundamentals, including storyboarding, material selection, and stop motion movement techniques.
Additionally, you can add a personal touch to your films by creating soundtracks using music and recorded dialogue.
Key Skills: Storyboarding, character design, digital animation tools, creativity, timing, visual storytelling.

Singing

Ages: 7 – 11

Day: Saturday

Time: 10.45 am – 11.45 am

Fee: £5 (1-hour class)

Fee with Bursary: £2.50 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts’ Singing sessions will help you develop vocal techniques, such as breathing control, pitch, and tone learning songs that put those techniques into practice with emphasis on performance and vocal health.
You will explore a range of different music genres and styles, with songs from Musical Theatre, as well as pop and contemporary artists.
Session’s start with a warm-up introduced through games and vocal exercises exploring different parts of the voice. A key focus areas include improving your vocal range, mastering ‘Belt’/’Mix’ techniques, enhancing vocal agility, breath control, and phrasing.
You will also explore what songs and styles best suit your voice and delve into storytelling through song.
Throughout the term, you’ll work on your individual repertoire, as well as group songs in harmony, developing your confidence in singing solo and as part of an ensemble.
Key Skills: Vocal technique, pitch control, breath support, musicality, performance skills.

Advanced Dance Technique

Ages: 7 – 15

Day: Saturday

Time: 13:30-14:30pm

Fee: £5 (60-minute class)

Fee with Bursary: £2.50 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts sessions in Advanced Dance Technique are designed for dancers who are ready to elevate their skills and push themselves further.
Sessions focus on refining core techniques, building strength, and mastering more complex movements. Through challenging exercises, you will enhance your agility, speed, balance, and coordination, which are key components in improving overall performance.
The sessions will also focus on more stylised performances and use contemporary dance to support the learning of advanced techniques.
Key Skills: Precision, Strength, Flexibility, and Control, Musicality and Dynamic Interpretation, Spatial Awareness and Complex Movement Patterns, Artistry and Performance Quality

Film Making

Ages: 7 – 11

Day: Saturday

Time: 09.45 am – 11.15 am

Fee: £7.50 (90-minute class)

Fee with Bursary: £3.75 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts’ Film Making sessions are perfect for aspiring filmmakers ready to dive into the world of short films. You will gain hands-on experience in scriptwriting, shooting, editing, and directing.
You will develop you skills in storytelling, camera work, and post-production skills to create short films and videos. You will learn about various filmmaking styles, roles on set, camera operation, lighting, sound recording, editing, and much more.
Key Skills: Scriptwriting, cinematography, directing, editing, storytelling, teamwork.

Dance

Ages: 7 – 11

Day: Saturday

Time: 12.00 – 1.00 pm

Fee: £5 (1-hour class)

Fee with Bursary: £2.50 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts’ Dance sessions introduce dancer’s to a variety of different styles, including contemporary, street dance, hip-hop, and musical theatre.
You will develop dance technique such as rhythm, body awareness, and creative expression, enhancing strength, flexibility, movement memory, and coordination.
Alongside leaning choreography and routines for performances, you will develop skills to create your own performance pieces.
Key Skills: Technique, rhythm, coordination, choreography, physical fitness, creative movement

Musical Theatre

Ages: 7 – 11

Day: Saturday

Time: 11.30 am – 1.00 pm

Fee: £7.50 (90-minute class)

Fee with Bursary: £3.75 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts’ Musical Theatre class explores the three disciplines of Singing, Dance, and Acting, focusing on performance skills, stagecraft, and vocal technique to bring musicals to life.
Each week attendees take part in a vocal and physical warm up. Activities will help to develop vocal skills in melody, harmony and singing in ensemble, alongside refining physical control and coordination in dance, and exercises focused on gaining confidence in speech, and identifying and expressing emotions.
Our Musical Theatre sessions foster teamwork, with performance opportunities made available throughout the year.
Key Skills: Acting, singing, dance, stagecraft, vocal control, performance confidence

Art & Design

Ages: 7 – 11

Day & Time : Tuesday, 17.30 pm – 7.00 pm or Saturday, 1.30 pm – 3.00 pm

Fee: £7.50 (90-minute class)

Fee with Bursary: £3.75 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts Art and Design sessions experiment with drawing, painting, sculpture, digital design, and other forms of artistic expression.
You will develop creative and technical skills, and an understanding of art principles and contemporary practice. You’ll be encouraged to experiment with different materials, tools, and methods to bring your artistic vision to life.
Depending on the different projects within the group, participants might work individually or collaboratively. Individual work allows students to explore their personal creativity, while group work encourages teamwork, idea exchange, and a collective approach to problem-solving.
Key Skills: Drawing, painting, sculpture, digital design, creativity, visual communication

Small group music tuition

Music tuition at Wac Arts begins at age 7. Music sessions are delivered in small groups of four students, grouped by age, ensuring you receive personalised support each week. If you have been learning your instrument at Wac Arts for 1 year or less you will join a Level 1 class. If you have been learning your instrument at Wac Arts for 1 year or more you will join a Level 2 class.

Wac Arts are committed to offering young people their first experience of an instrument and recognise that after an initial period of learning, participants will require one-to-one tuition. We welcome you to stay in your Level 2 class if you wish to play for fun rather than progression but strongly advise that, after two years of tuition you move onto a service that can offer individual tuition.

Drums

Ages: 7 – 15 Levels: 1 and 2

Day: Saturday

Time: 45 minute class, from 9.45 am – 3.45 pm

Fee: £11 (45-minute class)

Fee with Bursary: £5.50 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts Drums class will see you learn rhythm, coordination, and timing. You will practice beats and fills across multiple genres to build solid percussion skills.
You will develop basic backbeats and improve your playing with better speed and coordination as well as explore creating musical variations between music sections.
You will work on reading sheet music, and drum kit notation. You will develop the stroke technique, accuracy, relaxation, and economy of motion, improve Hi-Hat, Ride Cymbal, and Kick Drum technique.
You will experience playing different styles and genres, as well as the ability to improvise.
Key Skills: Rhythm, timing, coordination, beats, fills, dynamics

guitar

Ages: 7 – 15 Levels: 1 and 2

Day: Saturday

Times: 45 minute class, from 9.45 am – 2.45 pm

Fee: £11 (45-minute class)

Fee with Bursary: £5.50 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts Level 1 Guitar class, will help you learn how to tune your instrument and the letter names for each of the 6 strings. We’ll introduce you to the fretboard and explore the different parts of the instrument, as well as correct plucking or strumming technique.
Our Level 2 Guitar class will help you build skills in hammering on, pulling off, and sliding on strings. Further development will include thumb independence with an alternating thumb pattern accompanied by melodic lines. You will experience songs that depart from pattern fingerpicking, and learn how to play licks, riffs, runs, and embellishments in various keys.
Key Skills: Chords, strumming, fingerpicking, rhythm, melody, performance

keyboard

Ages: 7 – 15 Levels: 1 and 2

Day: Saturday

Times: 45 minute class, from 10.45 am – 3.45 pm

Fee: £11 (45-minute class)

Fee with Bursary: £5.50 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts Keyboard class combines builds keyboard technique, music theory, sigh-reading and creativity to help you become a proficient player.
You will learn to play notes, scales, melodies, and chords. You will develop a foundation for understanding how music works and apply it to practical playing, you will gradually learn to play a repertoire of songs in various styles. These songs are chosen based on your skill level and incorporate the techniques and theory you’ve learned.
Key Skills: Finger technique, basic music theory, sight-reading, chord progressions, accompaniment

Saxophone

Ages: 7 – 15 Levels: 1 and 2

Day: Saturday

Times: 45 minute class, from 9.45 am – 1.30 pm

Fee: £11 (45-minute class)

Fee with Bursary: £5.50 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts Level 1 Saxophone class will support your learning to read and interpret sheet music and music notation, perform 3 major scales and 3 minor scales, develop playing technique, sight-reading, and be able to play in unison and as a solo.
You will move on to working on musical pieces, and by the end of the term you will have a couple of songs under your belt and a wider understanding of the workings of the saxophone (and the tricks to making it sound great!)
Wac Arts Level 2 Saxophone class will explore playing a wide variety of genres, including
jazz, pop, and classical. You will build technique and musicality, enhancing and applying finer artistic skills such as phrasing, gradual tempo and dynamic shifts, key changes, and stylistic detail.
You will learn to add emotion to your performance using inflections like vibrato and musical ornaments. Vocalize the sound by effectively bending your notes, using dynamics to add depth, drama, and storytelling.
Key Skills: Tone production, breath control, improvisation, music reading, ensemble playing.

UkUlele

Ages: 7 – 11 Levels: 1

Day: Saturday

Time: 3.00 pm – 3.45 pm

Fee: £11 (45-minute class)

Fee with Bursary: £4.50 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Wac Arts Ukulele sessions are delivered in small groups of four students, grouped by age, ensuring you receive personalised support each week.

Participants will learn basic techniques and simple songs on the instrument that always sounds good!

During these fun and engaging sessions, you will explore all the sounds a ukulele can make, as well as strumming open string pieces and simple chords.

This class is the perfect introduction to playing a stringed instrument.

Key Skills: Chords, strumming, fingerpicking, rhythm, melody, performance

Djembe Drumming

Ages: 7 – 11

Day: Saturday

Time: 11.00 – 11.45 am

Fee: £4 (45-minute class)

Fee with Bursaries: £2 subject to availability

Autumn Term	10 weeks
Spring Term	10 weeks
Summer Term	10 weeks + Show Week

Djembe is a traditional West African goblet drum, played with bare hands.
At Wac Arts you will learn to play in a group ensemble in a lively cultural setting.
You will develop your rhythm skills and hand technique , exploring traditional rhythms, solo phrases, and improvisation. You will master counter rhythms, syncopation, and polyrhythm.
Whatever your level of skill and experience, there is a place for you in the group ensemble.
Key Skills: Hand technique, rhythm, dynamics, ensemble playing, cultural understanding

Ages 7 – 11

Ballet

Drama

Animation

Singing

Advanced Dance Technique

Film Making

Dance

Musical Theatre

Art & Design

Small group music tuition

Drums

guitar

keyboard

Saxophone

UkUlele

Djembe Drumming

Wac Arts