Beatriz Pascual, who teaches ballet at the Peques Spanish Nursery School in Fulham, west London, once a fortnight encourages her pupils to estirar los pies (point their toes) and to do saltos con los pies
juntos (jumps with feet together). The children, aged two to four, at this bilingual nursery school also have visits from a flamenco teacher, from whom they learn some elementary steps of the traditional Spanish dance.
Peques is the brainchild of Margarita
Beltran who is Spanish herself and has lived in London for 15 years. The nursery opened in a small Baptist church in September last year and can take children aged up to five. So far, it has 15 children attending, with a capacity for 20.
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