DDFSC STARSkate Program

Skills, Tests, Achievement, Recognition - this is what STARSkate is about!

STARSkate offers opportunities for skaters of all ages to develop fundamental figure skating skills in the areas of ice dance, skating skills, free skate and artistic skating. Unique to Canada, this program teaches figure skating skills in a group and/or private lesson format in a progressive and sequential manner. Skaters have the opportunity to take Skate Canada Tests through a nationally standardized testing system.

CanSkate 6 & Star 1 - 2
(Formerly Pre-Junior)

This program is designed to complete the CanSkate program and introduce skaters to the STAR program that follows the Skate Canada guidelines. There will be group instruction included with this program, with lessons in Skills, Freeskate and Dance. Skaters skate two (2) nights per week, with 40 mins of independent ice and 20 minutes of blended ice per night. Coaching time is included in your registration fee.

The requirement to graduate from this program will be the completion of all the STAR 1 tests and two (2) of the following STAR 2 levels: the Free Skate Test (jumps & spins), Dance and/or the Skills Test (skating abilities). If a skater achieves two (2) tests during a season, they will be able to move into the Star 2 & 3 program, if space permits, Coaches discretion may allow skaters to transition into the Star 2 – 3 program early.