Excellent Dance Workshop Led By Bronze Arts Award Pupils

We are always very proud of the pupils who work towards the Arts Award. 

Earlier this term, two classes of Year 4 pupils from Bablake Junior School enjoyed a brilliant dance workshop, led by two of our Shell pupils, Hema Lall and Amie Shipley.

The girls led the session as the final part of their Bronze Arts Award and it was enormously successful; they both led sessions really effectively and seemed to be very natural in the role of teacher.

Our younger children had a lot of fun, although a few commented that ‘dance is harder work than PE’! Mr Benfield and Mrs Reed, take note!

Amie, who recently gained a distinction for her Grade 6 LAMDA Musical Theatre exam, and Hema played a ‘guess the dance shoe’ game with the children, told them why warming up for dance is so important and led a fun warm-up to Pharrell Williams’ ‘Happy’.

They both led different sessions teaching the younger children either a short sequence from a musical or street dance, and the best young dancers received beautiful bags of sweets as prizes!

The session was another successful, inspiring afternoon for Bablake Arts - very well done to Amie and Hema!

Tomorrow we will report on this year's Gold Arts Award progress.

(Photographic collage compiled by Mrs Cathy Scott-Burt.)