We hope that everyone has enjoyed their half-term. As you will have seen from our previous FB posts many of our students have been competing at the Gloucester Dance Festival, held at Ribston Hall School in Gloucester. Thirty-one different dance schools took part and we are delighted to share with you our fantastic success. Of the 78 sections in which we were represented, our students achieved 41 first places, 35 second places, 22 thirds and 52 fourth places. For those of you who enjoy maths (I am not one of them) you will appreciate that our students won more than 50 per cent of our sections. What we are so happy about is not that we had one or two stars but that we had 39 different children who achieved medal winning places. We also won 16 trophies and 3 championships. There were so many lovely moments - too many to mention - but we are especially proud of Hannah Partridge and Cleo Spear who were eligible to dance in all three championships - wow! Our Group positions were truly excellent - we won five out of six categories. Our new Senior Cabaret group winning the highest mark of the entire Festival - an amazing 92! A huge thank you to Hannah Douglass and Lottie Fisher for their inspired choreography. Our staff team began the term feeling rather pressurized as, for various reasons, we had hardly any Groups completed. I am sure you would all like to join me in saying a huge thank you to Miss Sadie who really pulled things together. We are very lucky to have staff who care about creativity and the need to match children to suitable choreography, but none of this would have been possible without the sense of determination shown by the students and the support given by the parents. Just look what we can achieve when we really pull together. All I can say is a huge well done and thank you to all of you. Onwards and upwards towards Wiltshire in February when we will be attempting to add more Groups to our repertoire. No slacking! Miss Cxx
Posted on: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:22:33 +0000