Kids & Youth Aerial Classes
Youth Classes in Trapeze, Hoop and Silks
Term Dates:
7 September - 12 December, 2024
9 January - 2 April, 2025
Rebooking of youth classes coming by 27 November!
New & Returning Youth Students
New Youth students 6 - 17 years can join into an age appropriate class where ever we have spaces.
Generally we suggest to book a place in the Saturday 9.30am Beginners class for 8-17 years but for this term it is full. If your child knows the skill they would like to do, check below for availability or message us to confirm a place or go onto a skill/ class waitlist. Spaces shown below are updated as we discover availability!
Single Trial classes will be offered only after the term has started and where we have available spaces remaining.
2024/2025
Mondays
9-17 years
615pm – 715pm
3 hoop spaces
Wednesdays
10-14 years
445pm – 545pm
This class is not scheduled for 2025!
Intermediate level Aerial
12 - 17 years old
545pm – 645pm
4 Hoop spaces, 2 Silks spaces (only for advanced silks students)
contact us
Thursdays
6-8 years old
400pm - 445pm
8-12 years old
445pm – 545pm
Hoop and Trapeze spaces only
13-17 years old
545pm – 645pm
3 Trapeze, 3 Hoop Spaces
Saturdays
Beginners 8-17 years old
930am - 1030am
8-12 years old
1030am - 1130am
13-17 years old
1130am – 1230pm
3 Trapeze, 2 Hoop, 1 Silks space
Prices
7 September to 12 December, 2024
No classes 28 October to 3 November.
Thursday 9 January to Wednesday 2 April, 2025.
No classes 17 - 22 February.
Fees for the 10 week term, 1 hour youth class, £180
Single class £23
Fees for the 10 week term, Thursday 4pm - 445pm, 6-8 years class, 45 minute youth class, £150
Single class £17.25
If low income family support is required for termly classes, please email us, sending us a copy of your paperwork.
Class Information
Aerial Days youth classes are for 8 - 17 Year olds in Trapeze, Silks or Hoop. In regular classes, students stay with one skill for the term. The preferred skill choice may depend on availability for that skill in a particular class. Only the Saturday 9.30am class have students rotating around the 3 skills for the term.
Young people 6-8 years can enrol in our NEW thursday 4-4.45pm class. Students will rotate around the skills of hoop, silks and ground based circus such as acrobatics, juggling, hoolahoop.
New Students for 2025
We usually suggest the Saturday 9.30-10.30am for beginner students, 8-17 years. If they know their preferred skill and a suitable class and spaces are showing on the website information above, they can be booked into that class.
For a single or trial class we release these once the term has started and where we have spaces available.
New Silks Students
We require all silks students to have upper body strength with proven aerial experience and aerial awareness before considering them for a youth silks space.
Silks in all youth classes are currently full in most classes.
For youth wanting to join a silks class, we ask them to join hoop or trapeze for at least a term in the preferred class. Then when a space becomes available for them in that class, in silks, we can move them easily. Once attending classes they can be on all silks waitlists if they can make the other classes. We will offer our current students already in that class and on the silks waitlist, an available silks space before new students.
Can you take under 8 years?
Yes, only in our new 6-8 years Thursday 4pm to 445pm class!
But not in any of our other classes!
This is for a few reasons;
1. Aerial skills has a high health and safety element which younger children may not appreciate and we need more staff/less students to accommodate them.
2. Our other regular youngest class age range is 8-12 years. It can be quite a different learning experience for a 6/7 and 11/12 year old. In the same class, we have found it too challenging for the students and teachers.
Trial classes
Before booking please read this:
Only in regular class do students choose which skill they will focus on between trapeze, hoop, rope or silks. This will be determined by skill availability.
The Saturday 930am class rotates around the skills of Trapeze, Hoop, Silks for the whole term. The Thursday 4pm class rotates around the skills of hoop, silks, and ground based circus skills. Trial class students first skill choice will be accommodated when and where we can. Please make this clear before booking if the young person has a strong preference. Trial classes are only available once the term has started and where we have spaces avaialble.
Does each student have their own equipment?
We aim to give each young person their own apparatus for the duration of the class. Sometimes we may need to share equipment if we have more students than we were expecting in the class or there is not enough lower/smaller apparatus.
Will they change skills in the term?
In regular classes students will stay with the one skill for the term.
In the Saturday 930am & Thursday 4pm class, students rotate around all 3 skills.
Once students have experienced aerial skills we suggest the gain a deeper understanding of the apparatus by staying with one skill for the term. In regular classes and throughout the term, students will progress their skills and they may learn drops, as well as how to put all the small sequences together to create their own routines.
The Wednesday class, 5.45-6.45pm, is for intermediate aerial students. They focus on one skill, with an expectation of conditioning and stretching at home and focused attention within class. Please contact us for your child’s suitability. Intermediate Aerial students are those who have done at least 2 consistent years of aerial and are confident and capable in the air. They will need experience to work on the more challenging moves and transitions taught in this class.
End of term showing
In previous terms, at the end of term, we have a non compulsory ‘showing of work’ to allow families to watch an open class of their childs’ aerial skill. We will send an email regarding the precise time. The date will be in your child’s last or 2nd last class of the term.
We give the young people the choice, if they wish to show something to a bigger audience of all the families or not. They may decide they are not showing anything this term and we will support them in their choice.
Parents accompanying students
Please be aware parents and families are not allowed on school premises before 6pm on weekdays due to the child protection policy of the venue (the school) we use. Only if the child is nervous and for the first class can the parent accompany the child into the building. Please let us know you are coming.
After 6pm and weekends parents may sit in the annex by the gym or in the downstairs courtyard.
Contact us before your child undertakes a Duke of Edinburgh Award with us.
The student (or parent) MUST email info@aerialdays.com and make clear their 3 goals at the beginning of term for the following term.
During, and at the end of term these will be evaluated before signing the skills off! Email us for help and advice regarding setting goals.
We won’t be able to evaluate them at the end of term, if they didn’t inform us and set goals at the start of the term or period of the award.