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9 -18 Yr Olds Summer School : Sunday 10th - Saturday 16th August 2008 INCLUSIVE
Adult Summer School
[18+] : Sunday 3rd - Friday 8th August 2008 INCLUSIVE

LMA Residential Summer School - an entertaining, rioutous and eternally memorable week of music, dance, drama, and madness! The LMA Residential Summer School was launched in 1996 to give 9 - 18 year olds the opportunity to experience the many aspects of life on, off, and behind the stage - and it's still going strong! Come along and celebrate our 10th Year Anniversary!
Such was the success of the Residential Summer School that in 2003 the first LMA Adult Summer School [18+] was launched. In 2007 LMA Summer School moved to a NEW venue.

Each week is themed, the subject being completely non-Performing-Arts-related (previous years' themes include: PIGS, cheese, bugs & fish). Returning Course members are always intrigued as to the new year's theme, & ready to throw themselves into the stunning variety of activities which are laid on in addition to casual swimming/tennis sessions.
There is a minimum of 2 hours free time daily, with extra mad-cap events such as barn/line-dancing, in-house cabaret, & the indescribable team games (ever played Cauliflower Cheese Football, Nestball, Flamingo Croquet or been "curling" with Cheese Pasties?)
The emphasis during the week is on team-work, and on students being supportive of one another..after all, no one wants to pay to go away for a week & be lonely or miserable. Staff are approachable, helpful, insane & hard-working, and return year after year to witness the tremendous rewards reaped by all who spend time together on this unique summer school.

For information / synopsis of the individual summer schools, click on either the 9-18 YRS Courses or the ADULTS Courses.

Martial Arts
Many of you will be wondering about the inclusion of Martial Arts in a Jazz / Music Theatre Summer School
We believe in the benefits of training in martial arts: benefits such as improved health, better co-ordination, discipline and improved concentration, all of which directly benefit those in the performing side of music and theatre. For this reason we decided to start most days with a light training in the ancient art of Karate, taken by Nick J. Pamment. (Those of you who attended previous courses will remember it well!)

The Following information applies to the 9-18 YRS Summer School (or maybe to particularly homesick adults! - including the tutors!! LOL)

Pastoral Care
With the wide age-range of youngsters who come to us looking for a fun, informative week, we have devised various systems of individual care and extra-curricular activity in order that course members should have maximum opportunity to meet others, to spend time informally with the tutors, and to have time to rest (!).
Most of the course tutors are on-site overnight, & a minimum of three course tutors are also qualified first-aiders. Extra staff are also present at bed-times, to help particularly with the younger members who may not have spent much time away from home. Youngsters may sometimes choose to spend a night at home mid-week (this doesn't alter the course fee, but is helpful as a back-up for sleepless nights or home-sickness).
Cigarettes & alcohol are not allowed.

Past LMA members have said:
"L.M.A. is the King of all courses!!" (Nick Lockyer, aged nine)

"It’s a week where you can be totally yourself, & no one gives a stuff!" (One of the Parkington brothers who couldn’t be kept away, aged 13,14,15 & 16)

"PLEASE let me come back next year!!!!!!!!!" (Mark Underwood, aged 14 – 21!!)

"I shall be back until I have an LMA t-shirt for each day of the week..."(Inga Marsden)

"--???~~!!!***...???###!!!!!!" (Steve Andrews, Acting tutor, on his first day at LMA)


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