The event’s organisers have considered making this an annual event due to its huge success.
More than 500 parents, children and teachers attended the festive event, which included enthusiastic line and barn dancing, mechanical bull riding and target shooting.
With the able assistance of the school’s sports department, all the school children were trained for the dancing during physical education lessons to do the simple line dances. “We saw this as an opportunity to show the children that they don’t just have to be kicking a ball or swimming lengths in the pool to be fit and active,” said Aleshan Moodley, the school’s sports director. “Barn and line dancing can be very energetic, and the learners all took to it with great enthusiasm.”
It was this enthusiasm that brought the children and their families to the school in droves on the night, as boys and girls, teachers and parents, all enjoyed some energetic barn dancing, food and drink. The relegation rugby match between the Golden Lions and the Southern Kings was shown for the dads, and adults and children took a round on the mechanical bull.
Many parents described it as a night of “good clean fun” with their children, and expressed a keen interest in seeing the event repeated next year.
