Dance

Pre-Pointe Assessments – Intermediate Foundation Ballet Students

Congratulations to our Intermediate Foundation Ballet students who successfully passed their pre-pointe assessments. I am honoured to have worked alongside Elissa from Performance Medicine, who visited us on-site to perform the assessments. Elissa ensured that the students are strong enough to begin pointe, so they can not only have fun but also stay safe while dancing en pointe. This is a huge milestone in any ballet dancer’s journey. Soon, we will all head to Bloch, where they will receive their first pair of pointe shoes!

Laura Fishwick

Dance Co-ordinator – Ballet and Technique Development and External

Year 8 Dance Incursion

On Thursday 6 March, all Year 8 students participated in the Year 8 Dance Day in the Jeanette Buckham Gymnasium. This event relates to the Dance component within the Stage 4 PDHPE syllabus, addressing some performance and composition outcomes, focusing specifically on foundational skill acquisition and manipulation of movement.

It was a fabulous experience full of fun learning for the whole cohort of 280 students. It was great to see all eight houses excitedly participating for the duration of the day after many weeks of collaboration between the Dance, PDHPE, and IT departments. Lots of skills were learned and executed well, student memories were working hard, and everybody explored some tricky abstraction tools!

Lucy Eaton

Dance Co-ordinator – Secondary School