Phelan school of dance

12/10/2026

From first steps to new skills, new friendships and plenty of smiles, what a lovely start to our dance year! ✨

Enjoy your October break, everyone! See you all soon 💙🫶🏼

12/10/2026

✨ Central Scotland SDTA Festival ✨

A huge well done to all our dancers who competed at the Central Scotland SDTA Festival this weekend! 💙

We saw some lovely performances from everyone and are so proud of you all. Well done teachers and pupils for all your hard work.

A special mention to our dancers who achieved the following results:

✨ Harper – Overall Winner, Beginners A
✨ Dominic – Runner-Up, Beginners C
✨ Bella – 4th Overall, Novice A
✨ Freya – 5th Overall, Open A

Congratulations to you all!

12/10/2026

✨ Sidlaw Festivals ✨

A huge congratulations to Cara, Flora and Hope on their fantastic results at today’s competition!

Cara had her very first Intermediate competition and what a debut it was, taking home
🏆 Overall Winner of the 8–11 Years Intermediate Section

Flora danced brilliantly to achieve
🏆3rd Overall in the Novice Section

Hope had a wonderful day, placing
🏆5th Overall in the Beginners Section

Well done, girls! We are so proud of you all and delighted with your achievements. Keep up the amazing work! 💙✨

05/10/2026

Scottish Ballet Junior Associates 🩰

We’re so proud of Piper, who has been part of the Scottish Ballet Junior Associates since Primary 5 and is now in Primary 7.

The programme offers fantastic opportunities to develop ballet alongside conditioning, character and creative movement, as well as learning Scottish Ballet repertoire from company dancers.

We’re so excited to see what this next chapter brings for Piper. Well done 💙

12/09/2026

A very special first day for Matilda! 🩰

We’re so proud of Matilda as she begins her journey with Scottish Ballet’s Mid Associates Programme. What an exciting opportunity and a wonderful achievement! ✨

The Mid Associates Programme is designed for students who demonstrate the dedication, focus and potential to work towards a professional career in dance. Alongside developing a strong classical ballet foundation, the training includes contemporary dance, repertoire, conditioning and pointework.
Matilda will now spend three and a half hours every Saturday training alongside other talented young dancers.

Well done, Matilda. Enjoy every moment! 💙

12/09/2026

Our School Principal Mary Phelan awarded Scottish Dance Teacher of the Year 💙✨

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09/09/2026

Hi everyone,
Leith St Andrews Church is one of the venues we use for our classes and unfortunately there are only a few days left to keep this church in community hands.

The building is due to be sold off and if it’s sold to a private buyer, all the brilliant groups who use it will need to leave and the Leith community will lose access to this wonderful building.

Leith St. Andrew’s Trust is a registered charity set up to buy the building and keep it in community hands instead. The people who have been working hard to keep this building as part of the community are proud Leithers who’ve been working hard for more than two years to make this church remain in the community. However, they need your help 🫶🏼

The Scottish Land Fund are deciding at the start of October whether they will give them the funding they need to buy the building. They’ve said they need to know that the building will be truly community owned and managed in order to grant the funding. This means having as many people in the local community as possible signed up as Leith St. Andrew’s Trust members by Tuesday 22nd September. They’ve set an ambitious target of recruiting 800 members or 20% of the local community by this date.

By joining Leith St Andrew’s Trust you’ll become part of their mission to ensure this building stays part of the community, you’ll have full voting rights at our upcoming General Meetings and Annual General Meetings, and be eligible to stand as a trustee.

All of that for just £1 a year!

You can join right now by clicking the button in the link following link below

Join Leith St. Andrew's Trust. Annual membership, standard or concession rate.

01/09/2026

What a wonderful achievement for our dancers who auditioned for TS Training Academies on Sunday. All of our dancers were successful in securing a place and we couldn’t be prouder of them. 💙

Opportunities like this are so special. Being able to train alongside and learn from experienced industry professionals, gaining new skills, confidence and inspiration to take forward into their own dance journeys.

A huge thank you to and the entire TS Academy team for giving them this fantastic opportunity to learn, grow and experience the industry.

Well done, everyone. You should be incredibly proud of yourselves.

01/09/2026

This evening marked Christina and Amy’s final class together before they head off on the next exciting chapter of their journey to dance college. 💙

These two beautiful girls have given us some of the most wonderful memories over the years, and it’s hard to put into words just how much they will be missed by everyone at Phelan. They have grown, blossomed and brought so much joy and love into our school, and we couldn’t be prouder of the young women they have become.

It was also so very special to welcome back two of our former pupils, Annie and Fionnah, who are home from university. Seeing you both back in class tonight was just like old times and even more special to have you back where you belong, and that you were here to share Amy and Christina’s final class.

Christina and Amy, as you both begin this new chapter, we hope it brings you everything you dream of and so much more. Embrace every opportunity, believe in yourselves, work hard, dream big and, most importantly, never forget just how truly special you both are.

Always remember that no matter where life takes you, Phelan will always be here for you.

With all our love, always
Team Phelan 💙🫶🏼

01/09/2026

Tweenies Dance classes ~ Age 2+ 🩰

Our Tweenies classes are a gentle and fun introduction to dance, designed especially for our youngest dancers from 2 years+.
In a nurturing, welcoming environment, children can explore movement, music and creativity while building confidence, learning new skills and, most importantly, having lots of fun! 💕

Whether your little one is already twirling around the living room or is completely new to dance, we'd love to welcome them to Phelan School of Dance 💙

Saturday mornings
9:00–9:30am
Leith, Edinburgh
✨ Spaces currently available ✨

Come along, have fun, make friends and take those first magical steps into the world of dance.