Term dates and fees

Why two identical classes can cost different amounts

Look at the last two columns of that table. In Summer Term 2027 a class on Monday meets nine times and a class on Saturday meets ten. Nothing about the classes differs — Ballet Ballet 1 on Monday and the same class on Saturday are the same length with the same teacher. Memorial Day falls on a Monday that year, and a holiday falls on a DATE rather than on a term.

So the Monday class costs $198 that term and the Saturday one costs $220. A school quoting one flat term price is either rounding in its own favour or has not noticed. We would rather print the sum.

Every fee here is a rate times a number of sessions. Every fee on this site is a per-session rate multiplied by the number of times the class actually meets in that term. The multiplication is shown rather than the answer, because two classes of the same length in the same term can honestly cost different amounts when a holiday falls on one of their weekdays.

A worked example

Ballet, Ballet 1, on Monday at 4:45pm. It is an hour long, so it is charged at the an hour rate.

Joining part-way through a term

You pay for the sessions still to come. If that same class were joined on 19 October 2026, there would be eight sessions left in Fall Term 2026 and the fee would be $176 rather than $286.

That is the same multiplication with a shorter list. It is not a discount, it is not a concession, and it is offered rather than asked for — the enrolment page does the sum in front of you before you confirm anything.

Joining late costs less, and it is arithmetic. A student joining part-way through a term pays for the sessions still to come. That is the same multiplication with a shorter list, and it is offered rather than asked for.

The things that are not in the class fee

• Registration, $30. Once a school year, per student, charged when a place is first taken up. Never on a trial and never for sitting on a waiting list. It is not refundable, because it has been spent on registering the student.
• The recital, $45. Optional, per student, per recital. It covers costume hire — hire, not purchase — and two seats. There is no separate costume bill, no compulsory photograph package and no fundraising obligation.
• Shoes and practice clothes. Bought by you, from anywhere. There is no school uniform, no compulsory colour and nothing to buy from us.
• Everything else is in it. The teaching, the room, the accompaniment where a class has it, the register, and the loan of a guitar or a violin for a first term.

The family discount

ten per cent comes off every class after the first in one family in one term. It applies whether the second class is for a second child or is a second class for the same child, and that is deliberate: a second class for one child costs the school exactly what a first class for a second child costs, and a school that pays a parent for having two children but not for one child doing two things is making a distinction it cannot defend.

If a term's fee is genuinely difficult

Tell the office. We would rather arrange something than lose a student, that conversation stays between you and the office, and it does not reach the teacher unless you want it to. This is the least-used paragraph on the website and it is the one we would most like people to read.