Yes. At Breakout, we offer a FREE trial to all new students who are thinking of joining the school. This allows your child to experience the classes, giving them a flavour of what we do at Breakout. It also gives you, the parent, a better idea as to whether the location or time of the classes is suitable. You can book a FREE trial by clicking here. If you would like your child to continue after the trial, you will need to sign up to our subscription service by clicking here.

Yes, usually. If we are too far into the term or are fully booked, we may kindly ask that you sign up for the following term or ask if you would like to be added to our waiting list.

Our Saturday classes do not continue during half terms or the Christmas, Easter or summer holidays. However, we do run an exciting 4-day workshop during the summer holidays.

It is important that your child attends all classes as we are usually working towards a performance or show of some kind. However, we realise that this isn’t always possible. If your child is unable to make one of the classes, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can let our teachers know. If your child cannot make a session or sessions, unfortunately we are unable to refund or transfer the class fees for these missed sessions. Our costs remain the same whether everyone is present or not.

It is extremely rare for us to cancel a class. If we do cancel a class (e.g. due to extreme weather or a pandemic), all parents will be notified and will receive a credit note or a full refund (whichever they choose).

The Breakout uniform consists of a Breakout hoodie, Breakout t-shirt, plain black leggings/joggers/shorts, plain black socks and plain black dance shoes/plimsolls.

Breakout t-shirts, personalised Breakout hoodies, teddy bears, dance bags and rucksacks are available to purchase at the school.

For our Saturday classes, please provide your child with a drink and a snack to have during break time.

For our Summer Holiday Workshop, please provide your child with a packed lunch, snacks and plenty to drink each day.

We don’t allow parents to watch the classes as we have found this distracts the children in the class. However, parents are welcome to wait in our reception area during class time. Parents can also go away and come back to collect their child when the class finishes.

That said, we do put on a Bring-a-Parent Days, regular performances/shows as well as posting photos and videos on the class WhatsApp groups.

All Breakout students perform in front of their family and friends regularly. During our spring and summer terms (January – July), all our students work towards, and perform in, a big, full-costumed musical (recent shows include Frozen, Shrek, and Annie).

If your child joins us for our 4-day Summer Holiday Workshop, they will also perform in an exciting mini-production on the last day.

Our autumn terms (September – December), are different every year, as we like to give our students the opportunity to do something different within the performing arts. This may include: workshops with industry professionals, filming and seeing themselves perform on the cinema screen, a unique end-of-term performance event, a talent show, recording a song at a recording studio, performing in the community, etc. (these are all things we have done previously). We will always try to have a performance at the end of our autumn terms as well (we always have so far).

We want parents to have plenty of opportunities to see their child progressing as a performer.

The Children’s University (CU) is an international, critically-acclaimed charity which encourages children to participate in exciting and innovative learning activities outside of the school day. These activities take place at Learning Destinations.

Breakout Performing Arts is an accredited learning destination with Children’s University. This means that your child can attend our Breakout classes and/or private tuition and can have their hours recorded in their ‘Passport to Learning’, providing your child’s school is registered with Children’s University.

Apart from the range of skills which benefit from such activities, you and your child can celebrate their achievements through special certificates and annual awards ceremonies.

If your child’s school is not registered with the CU, we recommend you talk to your school or your local CU.

We deliver fun, exciting classes that teach children valuable skills in the arts. We are Ofsted registered and are an accredited learning destination with Children’s University.

Parents are able to see their child perform regularly in exciting shows; on-screen during a filming term; and in other events, fairs and melas that we host, or participate in, from time to time.

Each child receives a role and parts are distributed as fairly and evenly as possible – every child on stage is the star of the show! Our class fees are competitive, offering great value for money.

The Co-Principals and owners of Breakout, Rachel and David Hardway, are trained to Masters level in Drama and Music respectively and love working for the benefit of our students. Also, all of our teachers are highly skilled in their field and are experienced (and enthusiastic!) in working with children.

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