Local Stoke Newington residents and visitors to the Clissold Leisure Centre were treated to an impromptu carnival on the last day of term by 240 students from Stoke Newington School.
Instead of normal lessons and school uniform the Year 7 students, wearing costumes made from recycled materials, gathered in the front of the school and then paraded and performed outside the school gates playing samba rhythms on recycled drums, capoeira in groups and dancing.
The parade and performance outside the school gates was the final point of a day of intensive workshops. The special day was designed for the students as an end of term celebration and as a final farewell from them to the school which is now about to enter the government's Building Schools for the Future programme (meaning portacabins!).
The Year 7s worked with artists from TARU – with everyone making a costume and because we were very keen that the students should have some choice in how they spent the day they were given options of Brazilian percussion, dance or capoeira.
The students had a good time and it was great to see some of the teachers joining in alongside them having a go at capoeira.
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