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This year’s dance show took place on Wednesday 20th of March and was the biggest and best we have seen at Campsmount. It was the first event to be showcased in our new school building and using our newly purchased staging and lighting system. We sold out all tickets within a week of them going on sale and we had a record high 103 performers taking part. The night was a great success with some amazing dance being showcased from Campsmount students and our fantastic junior schools; Norton Juniors and Askern Spa Juniors. This year saw Kirk Smeaton also taking part for the first time and their dance was choreographed to a high standard, showing they are worthy participants in this now prestigious event.

The theme of the evening was Musicals and we had some fantastic routines showing a great interpretation of this theme. With dances from Musicals like Annie, Westside Story, A Chorus Line and Fame just to name a few. The evening finished with an amazing closing performance including all the Campsmount girls doing Dirty Dancing. In the end it was an extremely close competition and it went down to the last judge to decide the winning country. It was a battle between the Campsmount girls performing to Cats representing the United Kingdom and Norton Juniors performing to Lion King representing Turkey. However for the second year running Norton Juniors stole the show and they beat Campsmount by 4 points to take the title again. They had obviously worked extremely hard alongside their choreographer Bekki Dyas to produce a cute number and their costumes were amazing.

Dance at Campsmount and in our feeder schools grows year on year. This is largely down to the commitment of the students and teachers involved as well as our amazing dance teacher Bekki Dyas who never fails to inspire the students with creative and challenging dance routines. We now have extremely successful street dance and cheerleading clubs that have high numbers of representation across the school years.

The winning dance group from Norton Juniors will now enjoy a fantastic day out at Doncaster College, later in the year. The children will take part in three very different dance sessions, where they will be taught dance techniques within that genre of dance to then perform at the end of the session.
A big thank you must go to all staff who took part on the night and all the staff and students behind the scenes who worked extremely hard to make this year’s Eurovision Dance Contest the best one yet, where the quality of the routines was immense.

Mrs C.Knowland (PE Teacher/Campsmount School Sports Co-ordinator)

In December 2012, we were informed that we had been successful with a Co-operative funding bid, which we had applied for to gain money to assist with the delivery of street dance in our Infant Schools. Since street dance has taken off at Campsmount in 2008 and the continued success of this year on year now in all of our junior schools, we decided it was time to look at trying to integrate this into our Infant Schools in addition to this.

We will be using the money to pay for our fabulous street dance coach Bekki Dyas to work across all three of our Infant Schools Askern Moss Road, Askern Littlemoor and Norton Infants. Bekki will deliver a 6 week block of dance in all of these schools and work towards putting together a routine for the students to perform in at the end of the block of work.

We feel that this will be a fantastic opportunity to build up the transition of dance across all key stages from Key stage 1 – Key stage 4 and prepare the students for performing on the stage at Campsmount. We will be starting this next academic year now and we also have planned a Summer Dance Showcase at Campsmount, where the students will show the work they will have achieved.

Mrs C.Knowland (PE Teacher/Campsmount School Sports Co-ordinator)

The most exciting and  entertaining evening at Campsmount is nearly here again. The Campsmount Dance Show is on the 20th March 2013 and this year for the first time is in the main hall with the brand new sound and lighting we have had installed.

The students have been working extra hard to make sure the show is better than ever so make sure you get your tickets early to avoid disappointment. This is a ticket only event and they must be purchased in advance and are not available on the door.

the tickets for the dance show will go on sale from this Wednesday 27th February from lunch time.

These will be available from Miss Lindley (Mon, Thurs and Fri) and Mrs Knowland (Tues and Wed) during LUNCH TIMES only in the PE OFFICE. They are £3.00 each.

Here is last years show to give you a taste of what is to come:

Campsmount Eurovision Dance Show 2012 from Simon Huntridge on Vimeo.

The DVD is now ready!!

You can order your copy from Miss Burrows or Mr Huntridge.

Here is an online copy of the video taken that evening and it includes the very special live vocal performance from Daniel Curnow.

The DVD costs £3.00 and is in stunning HD.

Campsmount Eurovision Dance Show 2012 from Simon Huntridge on Vimeo.

Coming soon is the the DVD of the Eurovision Dance Show 2011.

Your DVD will be available from Mrs Knowland or Mr Huntridge for the last week of term.

Here is a preview of the DVD.

Campsmount Eurovision Dance Show 2011 from Simon Huntridge on Vimeo.

Here is a slide show of photos taken at the Eurovision Dance Show 2011.

They were taken by A-Level students as part of their course with some very impressive results.

Remember you can order a DVD with all the pictures and video from Mrs Knowland.

Broadcasting updates from Campsmount’s Sports Hall

*Click additional entries at the top when opened in order to view the dance show from the beginning.

  It’s that time of year again, where the Campsmount Eurovision Dance Contest is now a widely recognised event across Doncaster!

In September 2010, I met with students who were members of the Campsmount Dance Academy and they were then asked to get into friendship groups in each year group and were handed their “Eurovision Brief”. This year Bekki Dyas the schools choreographer and I decided that the theme would be “Divas” and so then the students set to work on their routines.

Students worked with Bekki Dyas, Campsmounts Street Dance Coach, Mrs Knowland and Miss Lindley at the academy to develop these pieces. Askern Spa Junior School and Norton Junior School also participated in the contest, working with staff at their school and alongside Campsmount students, who are currently undertaking the Level 1 Dance Leaders Course. Also featuring in the contest this year were performances from the Campsmount Cheerleading Club and all the students put on an amazing display

On the night of the show the doors opened and guests were greeted with a large projector screen showing all the students rehearsing their routines. This was a great way of getting the audience into the Eurovision theme. Alongside this the students all sat around tables with their flags in the middle showing which country they belonged to. Spectators were all handed hand wavers when they arrived for the country that they had come to support and whilst waiting all 85 performers did a fantastic job of getting the crowd going with their hand wavers and cheering for their countries.

Again we pretended that the United Kingdom had won the contest in 2010 and this was the reason for us hosting the contest. Therefore, first of all a performance was given by what was meant to be the winning dance by United Kingdom in 2010. This was performed by all of the students from Campsmount. After this performance 12 countries in total that had entered the contest performed, which were Denmark, Romania, FYR Macedonia, Cyprus, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Sweden, Turkey, Iceland & Greece and with new appearances from Ireland and Norway returning back to the competition.

At the end of all the performances a short break was given for the judges to reflect on all the performances and for them to decide on the scores they were going to give out. Then each judge from the 12 countries gave points from 1-8, 10 and 12, reflecting the scoring system of the Eurovision Song Contest. Mr Huntridge and Mrs Knowland presented the show and even sampled some excellent french when announcing the points during the results. We had a large scoring system on the projector screen reflecting how the results are given in the contest. Also each judge had to say” Good Evening Europe” in their own language, then say for example “Here are the results of the Danish Jury” then after giving their scores they had to say thank you and goodbye in their own language.

After a very close contest between new comers Ireland and Cyprus, Ireland just sneaked in to win the 2011 Eurovision Dance Contest, with their Cheerleading performance to Tina Turner’s Proud Mary. The winning performers were invited to the stage to receive their trophy and medals and all students received a school trip to City Limits Dance Studio in Sheffield, to experience a taster day of Street Dance and Latin/Ballroom. Following this the winning country performed their winning dance.

This was a fantastic evening and all of the students who participated in the contest were a credit to our school. What a great end to the year showcasing all of our student’s hardwork and dedication to extra-curricular dance and cheerleading. Also special thanks again goes to Upstage School of Theatre dance for putting on a fabulous display to Blondie during the interval.

A great successful third Eurovision Party!!!

C.Knowland (Campsmount School Sports Co-ordinator)

  In January 2011, Campsmount saw the first Musical Production in quite a few years. This event was organised by our Head of Music Sarah Kerrigan, who developed the talents of quite a few of our students to put on a great show.

The CTC Dance and Cheerleading academies supported this production by getting involved and putting on a great display as usual. Bekki Dyas was responsible for the main choreography in this, using snippets of the moves that were used in the original film. She also worked alongside the main cast to ensure they could put in some great dance moves throughout the show.

The Dancers and Cheerleaders performed classic dances to the famous “You’re the one that I want”, “Grease Lightning”, We Go Together” and many more, with the Street Dance Club putting in their own contemporary twist and missing in some modern Swedish House Mafia and Faithless snippets.

The students thoroughly enjoyed their first production and are looking forward to putting together pieces for the Oliver Production next year.

C.Knowland (Campsmount School Sports Co-ordinator)

 Over the last year we have been working hard to develop our CTC Cheerleading Squad. This has been down to the great work of our Students, Staff and our Street Dance/Cheerleading Coach BekkiDyas. Bekki is employed by Campsmount to develop the provision of Dance and Cheerleading at our school and over the past few years, she has been a tremendous asset to us.

The girls not only train hard and perform in our annual productions, but they also regularly perform at various community events around Norton and Askern and at various events at Castle Park Rugby Club.

After the devastation of the fire at our school, the girls all still attended the Cheerleading sessions set up at Askern Welfare Club on a Monday evening, ensuring that they didn’t miss out on practicing for their Dance showcase Performance. The girls are currently working hard on their performances for the school’s first musical production after quite a few years, so watch out for the Grease Cheerleaders coming soon after Christmas.

C.Knowland(Campsmount School Sports Co-ordinator)