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Hello. My name’s Tom. That’s me in the blue shorts. I’m a pupil at the Newbank School of Performing Arts. It’s a really good school and I love it. The teachers are great. Everyone likes them.

Pupils at Newbank want to be professional dancers, singers or actors in the future. So we study the performing arts: singing, music, dance and drama. As well as performing arts, we also do academic subjects like maths and English. I like them but I prefer dance. Our teachers tell us it’s really important to do our academic schoolwork and pass our school exams.

The timetable at Newbank is different from a normal school. Lessons start at 9 o’clock in the morning and finish at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. We have a lot of lessons, 3 in the morning and 3 in the afternoon. In the morning we study performing arts and in the afternoon we do our normal or academic subjects and other schoolwork.

I don’t mind working this hard but it’s a very long day. In the evening we do our homework so there’s no time to relax. We also have lessons on Saturday but only in the morning. I like the lessons but I’m really tired at the end of the week and I really don’t like getting up early on Saturday mornings.

My best friend loves dance too. I practise with him on Saturday afternoons. My favourite subject is dance. I love dancing. I want to be a professional dancer when I leave Newbank.