CirQuest kids' classes
CirQuest kids are confident, collaborative and creative! You'll love the unique balance of structure and freedom in our classes. Kids develop social problem-solving and communication skills while learning acrobatics, trapeze, trampolining, juggling, stiltwalking, unicycle and much much more. Our dedicated teachers are trained and mentored by our director, occupational therapist Isobel Lyall, to provide the just-right challenge each child needs for focused, independent, motivated learning, and to discover their unique role in our growing circus family.
Have you heard about our awesome
school holiday programs?
We've got full-day and half-day circus programs in the school holidays!
Term 2 2025 starts April 28.
Book before the end of term 1 to get the Early Bird discount!
Our booking process is flexible and easy to use! There are two booking and payment options:
Term fees: This is the cheapest way to pay. You'll save 10% when you book for the whole term (discounts are automaticially applied at checkout).
Drop-in bookings are available in classes where there are any vacancies, so you can try a class before you decide if it's the perfect one for you. Bookings must be made at least 24 hours in advance, so that we can plan our lessons to suit the size of the class and meet each individual student's needs. You don't need to contact us to check if there are vacancies, if there are none you won't be able to book in (but you can join a waiting list so we can notify you if our capacity changes).
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Week 1 Special: If you come as a drop-in booking durig the first week of term (Feb 10-16), and after the class let us know that you loved it, we can book you in for the remainder of term and save your spot. You'll just pay the balance of the term fee.
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What if you miss a class? If you're booked in for the term, you can just come to another class any time during the term to make up the class you missed. If you book as a drop-in, you can cancel your booking at least 24 hours before, and receive the fees back as a credit in our booking system, or you can change your booking to another date or even another type of class that has capacity.
Does your child have higher support needs?
Sensational Circus is our program that provides children with individualised supports to develop the skills, experiences and relationships they need to achieve their goals - not just in circus, but in life!
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Our very own OT, Isobel Lyall, combines her extensive circus experience with evidence-based therapeutic strategies from a wide range of different theoretical perspectives, to deliver occupational therapy using the circus as a setting, and as a meaningful therapeutic activity.
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Sensational Circus sessions can be 1:1, in groups, parallel with classes, and integrated into circus classes.
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Our classes
Circus Fun for 4-7 year olds
Discover all the amazing things they can do in the circus! Circus Fun includes an incredible variety of activities including:
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Acrobatics disciplines (handstands, tumbling, trampoline and acirbatic balances)
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Aerials (trapeze, silks, and rope)
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Balance skills (balance beams, tightwire, stiltwalking and lots more)
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Object manipulation skills (such as juggling, hoops, plate spinning and much more)
Our expert kids' teachers use our unique curriculum to help kids learn at their own pace, and also include lots of games and activities selected to optimise and develop kids’ social skills, concentration and attention, listening skills, confidence and self-esteem. Circus Fun encompasss the first four levels of our curriculum (Discover Circus, Explore Circus, Adventure Circus and Challenge Circus).
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Fees: $27.50 drop-in, $250 term
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CirQuest HQ, Burswood
Every day Monday-Thursday at 3.30-4.30pm
Saturdays 10.00-11.00am​
Social Circus for 8-11 year olds
Kids love exploring the huge variety of skills offered in this multi-level class with multiple teachers,, who bring their own unique expertise in skills such as:
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Acrobatics disciplines (handstands, tumbling, trampoline and acirbatic balances)
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Aerials (trapeze, silks, and rope)
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Balance skills (balance beams, tightwire, stiltwalking and lots more)
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Object manipulation skills (such as juggling, hoops, plate spinning and much more)
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Encompassing the first four levels of our unique curriculum (Discover Circus, Explore Circus, Adventure Circus and Challenge Circus) into one class enables us to offer kids more variety, more individualised instruction so they can learn at their own pace, and more opportunities for social connections and collaboration.
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Fees: $45 drop-in, $405 term (one class a week) or $810 for 2 classes a week
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CirQuest HQ, Burswood
Tuesdays 4.30-6pm
Wednesdays 4.30-6pm
Saturdays 11.00am-12.30pm​
Extend and Advance Acrobatics and Aerials
These classes are for kids whose right way up is upside down, and who have already mastered the foundation skills in acrobatics and aerial arts that are taught in the first four levels of our unique curriculum, in Circus Fun and Socail Circus classes.
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Extend and Advance Acrobatics and Aerials includes handstands, tumbling, trampoline and mini-trampoline, partner and group balances, tightwire, trapeze, silks, lyra and rope. We recommend that students training at this level train twice a week, for optimal learning and safe, sustainable practice.
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Extend and Advance for 6+ year olds and 10+ year olds are now held at the same times.
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CirQuest HQ, Burswood
Mondays 4.30-6.00pm​​
Thursdays 4.30-6.00pm
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Fees: $45 drop-in, $405 term (one class a week) or $810 for 2 classes a week
Teens Social Circus
Suitable for beginners to intermediate level, in this class students are encouraged to try all the different acrobatics and aerial skills, supported to develop their own goals, and assisted to self-direct their own learning. This class offers an opportunity to focus on any of a huge variety of circus arts, which include:
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Acrobatics disciplines (handstands, tumbling, trampoline and acirbatic balances)
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Aerials (trapeze, silks, and rope)
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Balance skills (balance beams, tightwire, stiltwalking and lots more)
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Object manipulation skills (such as juggling, hoops, plate spinning and much more)
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Teenagers have unique needs, so CirQuest has developed a flexible, supportive program of classes for young people which enables them to personalize their lessons, make decisions about their own learning, and cultivate their emerging sense of identity, responsibility and self-actualization.
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Fees: $45 drop-in, $405 term
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CirQuest HQ, Burswood
Fridays 4.30-6.00pm
Performance troupe (by invitation only)
CirQuest's Performing Troupe meet weekly to develop group acts and roving performance skills, which they perform at our in-house productions as well as community events and festivals. In February 2020 our troupe produced and performed their own original work, CirQuesTV, in the Fringeworld Festival. We can't wait to see what else they have in store for us this year!
Performance troupe participation is by invitation only and participants must be enrolled in another class for the term. If you would like to join the performing troupe, have a chat to your teacher.
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CirQuest HQ, Burswood
Saturdays 12.30am-2.30pm
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