Big Wins for Lady Margaret Students in Southern Finals of Rock Challenge
Achievement in drug awareness among awards won at Portsmouth Guildhall
The school were one of the three from London competing against top teams from across the South of the UK at Portsmouth's Guildhall.
Their performance won the Parsons Green school the Rock Challenge Award for Achievement in Drug Awareness.
The school was also commended in a number of other categories, including:
HC3S Award of Excellence for Video Performance
Police and Crime Commissioner for Surrey Award of Excellence for Entertainment
Hampshire Drug and Alcohol Action Team Award of Excellence for Visual Enhancement
Zeamu Music Award of Excellence for Soundtrack
West Sussex County Council - Think Family Award of Excellence for Drama
Ian Wright Consulting Award of Excellence for Concept
Hampshire County Council Award of Excellence for Choreography
The Be Your Best Rock Challenge events aim to inspire, engage and motivate young people to make healthy and positive lifestyle choices.
Each show provides the opportunity for young people to experience an adrenalin-based high through performing live on a professional stage rather than using tobacco, alcohol or other drugs.
Teams as small as 20, or as large as 135 students, collaborate with teachers, parents and wider communities to prepare an eight minute performance. These preparations are undertaken over many weeks and months and showcase an array of skills in dance, drama and design.
Set to a theme of their choice each school’s performance is completely original and can vary from tackling a political or social message, retelling a true event or an entirely imaginative concept.
Lady Margaret School's theme was Women: The High Rise; a metaphor from architecture and from aspiration.
The team said: "We are dancing the lives of women who have broken through the glass ceiling. We move from storey to storey: glimpsing through windows into the lives of four inspirational pioneers, one of them a local Fulham girl. Rising to a roof top celebration – of women on the up!"
At Rock Challenge events, schools spend the day rehearsing in front of their peers and supporting one another before performing to a live audience of friends, family, VIP guests and a panel of judges. Marked on production, design and performance schools are presented on stage at the end of the evening show with awards of excellence in a variety of areas.
Find out more about the Rock Challenge on the website.
July 1, 2016
