Year 9 Inter House Dance Competition 2021

Franklin step to victory in the Year 9 Inter House Dance competition

On Tuesday 23rd and Friday 26th November, Year 9 pupils competed in the Inter House Dance competitions in their double PE lessons.

This was the first ever Inter House Dance competition in two years as it did not run last year and it was fantastic to see so many pupils involved and showing off a wide array of Dance skills!

PE teachers who would normally teach each half of the year group used a set criteria to award marks to each act and the pupils who were not performing were asked to vote for their favourite acts in terms of entertainment and choreography.

Each House could have a maximum of 3 entries per year group and acts could be soloists, duets, trios or larger groups depending on how many pupils wanted to be involved. For each person who participated they each received 1 House Point for their efforts and the act which received the most marks received the “Audience Choice” award in each half of the year group (plus 3 additional House Points).

The acts were combined for each half of the year group and the top 3 acts in each year group received 1 additional House Point – 3rd place, 3 additional House Points -2nd place and 5 additional House Points – 1st place.

The Year 9 final positions were as follows – 1st place – Lilly L- H * 9Fr 2nd place – Alisha R 9Pa 3rd place – Gracie – Rae K 9Fr Joint 4th place – Stephanie Ok 9Pa and Jess H 9Se 6th place – Aimee A and Erin M 9Se/ Jolie K and Nourya M 9Pa 8th place – Niya N * 9Ha 9th place – Sophie G 9Au 10th place – Ruva R and Gabby S 9Se 11th place – 9Fr Group Act *=Audience Choice Vote – (additional 3 HPs each)

This meant that the overall positions for each House group finished as 1st – Franklin – 100 points 2nd – Parr – 50 points 3rd – Seacole – 25 points 4th – Hadid – 10 points 5th – Austen -10 points

A fantastic effort from all of the acts and a wonderful showcase of the dancing talent we have at Bishop’s – well done everyone!

A special thank you to the Drama staff who allowed us to swap teaching spaces so we could hold our competitions in the Main Hall.

And a final thank you to all of the PE staff for taking the time to run this event for the pupils.