Beller’s Dance & Gymnastics Policies 2022-2023
Billing
Beller’s requires auto-pay for all customers. Tuition will be pulled on the first business day of each month. There will be a $10.00 late fee applied to any account that is 15 days delinquent. Your child can not participate in class if your account is two months delinquent. There will be a $20.00 charge on all returned checks. If your child misses his/her lesson, we cannot make a deduction from his/her monthly tuition. Monthly tuition remains the same regardless of how many lessons are in each month. Some months have 5 lessons, and some months have 3 lessons; tuition was averaged out for the year. It is your responsibility to keep your account current. If you are delinquent, you will receive a statement of account via email.
Payment
To avoid auto-pay, you can pay at our front desk before the first of the month. We take cash, check, or credit/debit cards at our front desk. We will not take credit cards over the phone. You will find this form on our website. By enrolling in Automatic Draft, you are agreeing to allow Beller’s to debit your account for all services/expenses.
Waiver and registration fee
Each family must complete a waiver at our front desk for us to keep on file. This must be completed before your child’s first class. An annual registration fee must be paid for all children before their first class.
Enrollment
Our session runs June through May. We limit our class sizes. If you have enrolled your child and your plans change, we require 15 days written notice by email that (s)he will be withdrawing from class. Otherwise, you will be responsible for the following month (regardless of attendance) because he/she has occupied a space on the class roster. No exceptions will be made.
COVID policies
Please follow current CDC guideline when exposed or diagnosed with Covid. We encourage you to discuss your personal expectations with your student regarding masking and distance from others. Frequently touched surfaces will be sanitized often and hand sanitizer will be placed throughout the building for your convenience. Our COVID policies may change at anytime depending on the trends in our area.
Attendance
Please do not bring your child if they have had a fever, been nauseous in the last 24 hours or if they have lice. DO NOT bring them if they have a severe runny nose, cough, or any COVID-19 symptoms. We reserve the right to remove a child from class if we feel they are they are too sick and could potentially spread their illness to other healthy children. Please do not hesitate to give us any information that might assist us in instructing your child (i.e., he/she has hearing impairment, learning disability, or physical impairment). This will help us and help your child at the same time. We want your child’s learning experience to be a positive one.
Make up lessons
We allow make up lessons for missed classes if there is room available in a class that is the same level as your child’s. If we do not have spots open, we cannot allow make-ups and tuition does not change. All make-up lessons must be scheduled through the front desk or by email. If you schedule a make-up and fail to show up, that will be counted as your make up lesson. All make-up classes must be done within 2 months and the student must be currently enrolled to make-up. We will always try our best to figure out a solution for make-ups. We do not allow walk-ins for make-up classes. There will be no make-up lessons or prorated tuition for scheduled breaks/holidays.
Snow days/Severe weather
We do not automatically cancel classes when the surrounding school districts do. If we cancel due to weather, we will send emails to the classes involved. If weather is bad, please check your email before coming to class. Evening classes will be decided by 2:30pm. We do not prorate for closures due to weather, if they become excessive, we will offer make-up classes or open gym passes to compensate for missed time.
Halloween
Classes that begin after 5 on Halloween will be cancelled. We hope the children have a great time trick-or-treating.
Thanksgiving
Beller’s will be closed for Thanksgiving November 23rd through November 26th.
Winter break
Beller’s will close December 23rd through January 1st.
Spring break
Beller’s will be closed for spring break March 13th through March 18th. We follow the Shawnee Mission School District for spring break.
National holidays
Labor Day, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July are the national holidays that we observe. We DO NOT close for Veteran’s, Martin Luther King, or Presidents’ Days.
Dance Apparel
All students will need a water bottle. Students should wear leotards or somewhat fitted shorts and shirt (no jeans or dresses), hair should be pulled back and no jewelry. Students should have the appropriate shoes for their class. Jazz students should wear black or tan jazz shoes. Tap shoes should have elastic through the eyelets, (no ribbon ties). This is especially important for the students under seven years of age. Hip Hop students need to wear tennis shoes with clean soles. We highly recommend buying a pair of tennis shoes strictly for class so our dance floors are not ruined. No dance shoes should be worn outside.
Gymnastics/Tumbling Apparel
All students will need a water bottle. Students should wear leotards or fitted clothing and have their hair pulled back and no jewelry. Please do not have your gymnast wear skirts or leotards with skirts attached. The extra skirt material gets in the way, especially on bars and becomes a safety hazard. All students should have bare feet.
Contact information
Please keep your address, phone number and email information current. This is important in case of an emergency. This can all be added/edited on your parent portal.
Entrance and Exit
We ask that you only enter and exit through our front door. If the gym garage doors are open to let air in, we will not allow children to leave through these side garage doors, only through the front. Parents and students MAY NOT enter through the garage doors and walk through the gym.
Observing classes
We have small windows in the doors that you are welcome to look through. You will be able to watch gymnastics classes on the TV monitors in the lobby. Doors will be propped open if we do not have the air or heat running for easier viewing from the doorways. Please refrain from coaching your child from the doorways as that is more of a distraction to the class. If the gym garage doors are open, parents may watch from outside the garage doors, parents may not come into the gym while watching. No parents or siblings are allowed inside the dance rooms or gym while classes are going on due to safety and insurance reasons. Everyone who steps into the dance rooms or gym must have a current waiver on file.
Lobby
Please be respectful to others in the lobby. If you are sick or coughing, please wait in your car. All siblings must be supervised while they wait. Please do not allow children to tumble or climb on things in the lobby since it is not a padded and is not a safe area for gymnastics.
Questions?
If you have any questions, please feel free to call 913-648-2626 or email bellerdanceandgymnastics@gmail.com