We kicked off the Stoke Newington School activity with three days of open workshops at Easter. With a number of practical issues hindering delivery of our overall plan, there'd been a big gap between the Year 8 workshops and performance at Christmas and our next set of Brazilian themed activity. So targetting a range of Key Stage 3 students we were pleased to have a small group of students show up and demonstrate real commitment.
They were willing to try something new - girls who didn't see themselves as drummers suddenly found that they enjoyed it and happily mixed dance and percussion. Boys who absolutely did NOT dance were suddenly reviewing their own perceptions of themselves and what they did do by trying all sorts of athletic dance moves. Suffice to say that by the end of the three days the groups were less polarised by gender and happy to work together, drumming for the dancers and vice versa.
Credit goes to the trainers, Rudy Rocha and Cleyton on percussion and Chris Hibbert the dance tutor who did a fantastic job working with the group.
There is now an afterschool club running in the lead up to the StokeFest carnival.
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