THE winners of this year’s Rock Challenge have been crowned.
Eight schools from across Dorset and Somerset took part in the annual Be Your Best Rock Challenge which took place at the Bournemouth’s Pavilion Theatre on Thursday night.
Hundreds of pupils showed off their choreography and dance skills in front of family, friends, VIPs, sponsors and a panel of industry professionals.
Teams had up to eight minutes to perform their chosen theme.
The Gryphon School in Sherborne was awarded first place with their performance, ‘Fukushima 11.3’.
The school’s piece centered around the magnitude 8.9 earthquake that hit north-eastern Japan on March 11, 2011, triggering one of the most destructive Tsunamis on record. The devastation was furthered as the wave struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant causing radioactive leakage.
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