Head's Newsletter 17 March 2017

London Youth Games Dance Competition at the Copper Box

Exciting news … Year 9 managed to secure 3rd place (bronze medal) out of 22 schools in the London Youth Dance Competition at the Copper Box on Wednesday 8 th March. An amazing achievement from the dancers who represented the school so well. Here’s Edward Gravestock’s (9KB) account of the day: We had to get to the Olympic park by 9:00. As we were warming up, everyone was relieved to find we were 18 out of 22 in the running order of dance groups performing from across London. Watching the other groups go on before us was nerve-racking, the competition was tight and every new piece seemed to be better than the last. At last, our time came and we waited nervously on the side-lines for our names to be called; we knew that even to come tenth we would have to dance our hardest. I was shaking with nerves as I got into my place – I could see all three judges writing things about us before the dance had even started. Our music came on and everything got better from there – Oscar did his ballet solos, Arjan did his butterfly kick, James leapfrogged Krushan, Kush did his well-known freezes, Darren did his tornado kick and Sonny whipped out a backflip for the occasion, the energy was unstoppable and when we had finished, the applause kept on going from all three sides until we had left the arena. We got back to our seats and waited for the winner to be announced. Finally, the top three dance groups were announced, no-one could believe their ears when they announced that Tiffin was third, and we ran down to receive our medals and get pictures with the judges who included the famous dancer “Turbo”. On the minibus home Sonny said “I still can’t believe we came third” and everyone agreed.